Stewart Quigley

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Jock born 🇾🇪 Manc bred Manchester United.........the Religion!!
Season ticket holder ⚽ K-Stand 🇾🇪

[Melly Barnes @Ta1kingTurf]

A long read, but its the truth!
I genuinely think we are watching football loyalty slowly die and I don't know what replaces it.
I've followed Man United home and away for decades. Thousands and thousands of miles, trains, cars, coaches, hotels, stupid kick off times, days off work and an absolutely frightening amount of money.
But forget the money for a minute because you can always earn more money.
You can't get the time back.
Weekends away from your wife and kids, family things you've missed, holidays planned around fixtures, getting home at stupid o'clock then getting up for work a few hours later.
And none of us were forced to do it. We did it because we fucking loved it.
When the fixtures came out you didn't think do I fancy that game?
You thought right, how am I getting there?
That's the difference.
And lately I've noticed more and more people I've known through football for years saying the same thing.
"They can have my ticket."
That's not normal.
These aren't people who started supporting United because they won a trophy last year. These are lads who've been everywhere following them.
And before rival fans jump on with the glory hunter stuff, that doesn't really wash anymore either.
Yes, Manchester United were ridiculously successful. We were spoilt for years and I'll never pretend otherwise.
But we've been mediocre for the best part of 12 years now.
There are kids going to Old Trafford today who've never seen Manchester United win the league. For some of them, United being bang average is basically all they've ever known.
What glory are they hunting?
They're still going.
Their dads and mams are still taking them. They're still buying the shirts, travelling away and growing up supporting United.
So this isn't about demanding we win the league every year.
Football fans can handle losing. Fuck me, we've proved that.
It's everything else.
You can have a Saturday night kick off now where you're £100 for a train, £100 for a hotel, ticket, food, drink and you're basically writing off 24 hours of your life. Sometimes you're fucked for work the next day as well.
And increasingly you sit there thinking...
What am I actually getting back from this?
Not trophies. I don't mean that.
I mean from the relationship with the club.
Because it doesn't feel like a relationship anymore.
It feels like a transaction.
You're a membership number. A ticket account. A customer.
And if after 20, 30, 40 years you finally say fuck this, you can have my ticket, it doesn't really matter.
Someone else will take it.
Probably someone who'll spend more money while they're there.
They'll buy the shirt, go in the Megastore, buy the experience, take the photos and maybe pay hundreds more for something that used to simply be part of going to the football.
Financially that might make perfect sense.
But I think football is playing a very dangerous game.
Because the people you're slowly replacing aren't customers.
They're supporters.
They're the people who went when it was brilliant and went when it was shit.
The people who knew everyone around their seat.
The people whose dad took them and who now take their own kids.
The people who didn't need a "matchday experience" because the fucking match WAS the experience.
And I don't even think this is just Manchester United.
I'm hearing supporters from other clubs saying exactly the same things.
Maybe we're just further down the road than some.
Football is becoming an event.
A day out.
A product.
Something you experience once and stick on Instagram.
And maybe that's just the future. Maybe old fuckers like me need to accept it 😂
But here's the bit I'd worry about if I ran a football club.
People aren't as angry anymore. They're just losing interest.
There's a massive difference.
Angry supporters still care.
They protest. They complain. They sing about the owners. They demand change.
When someone who's arranged their entire life around football for 30 years suddenly says...
"Know what? I can't be arsed going."

[Stewart Quigley @stewriggs]

@FballGossips Its that fucking bad it looks like AI 😂

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@PeteHall86 Absolute fucking tripe ya sausage

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@utdzora

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@StattyGeezerFC @CryptoCraig18 @MiddletonColts You left door ajar n i fully opened it 😂

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@CryptoCraig18 @StattyGeezerFC I get 8 teams in total
@OfficialOAFC
@buryfcofficial
@ChesterFC
@LUFC
@MiddletonColts
@OfficialBWFC
@BCFC
@LFC
And we may as well add the mighty
@ManUtd
@ManUtdWomen
to get 10 teams 😁

(No ones bothered about the council tenants 👀👀😂😂😂)

[Stewart Quigley @stewriggs]

@Motorsport

[Oasis Archives🍋 @OasisArchives]

On December 6, 1994, for their first appearance on the famous show « Later with Jools », Oasis decided not to play any tracks from Definitely Maybe.
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[Manchester News MEN @MENnewsdesk]

Thirteen-year-old Jake passed away just two weeks before his 14th birthday after what his mum thought was just severe hay fever turned out to be an aggressive cancer 💔

Before he was diagnosed, Jake's mum Lynsey was giving him antihistamines before school because he had a stuffy nose and watery eyes.

She put his sheer exhaustion down to the warm summer weather and the end of the school term.

But when a swelling appeared across the bridge of his nose, an X-ray at Salisbury District Hospital revealed a mass in his nasal cavity.

Jake was diagnosed with stage 3 fusion-positive alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer, in July 2023.

He went through nine rounds of chemotherapy and 28 sessions of proton beam radiotherapy in London, but the cancer still spread to his lymph nodes.

When further chemotherapy caused severe seizures that placed him in intensive care, Jake made the brave decision to stop his treatment entirely.

Lynsey said he was incredibly calm about it, simply telling her, "We tried our best."

He even managed to joke that at least he wouldn't have to deal with the cost-of-living crisis.

Jake passed away peacefully at home on April 26, 2024.

Before he died, he gave strict instructions for his own funeral, asking for a blue coffin and for 'Here Comes The Sun' by the Beatles to be played 💙

His final wish to his mum was that he wanted to be well-known and not forgotten.

Lynsey is now honouring that promise by joining forces with a children's cancer charity and studying radiotherapy at the University of Liverpool.

RIP Jake, you won't be forgotten 🕊️

[Stewart Quigley @stewriggs]

UTFR 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

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@Anthony56339568 @TicketManUtd My season ticket was £646.00, which means each game costs me £34.00

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@AwayDaysClub_ Brett Ormerod

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@UTDFondree Big Ron

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[Stewart Quigley @stewriggs]

@ThatG4m Goals scored

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@sampeoples_ Because its United, 100% if it was on Havertz it would of been given 🤷‍♂️

[Stewart Quigley @stewriggs]

My @Super6: PTO 1-3 MNC, MAD 2-1 INT, MIL 0-2 NEW, LIV 2-1 ATL, NAP 0-1 ARS, CHE 2-0 LEE https://t.co/oKAaRHaqK1