Manchester United’s 2022/23 season will come to an end this weekend when the Reds travel to Wembley to take on Man City in the FA Cup final in a historic game.
The FA Cup trophy has been partially engraved ahead of Saturday’s final between Manchester United and City.
Since it will be the first time in history that a Manchester derby will be played in the FA Cup final they’ve only gone and decided to break an old tradition.
A decision was made to partially engrave the trophy early with the word ‘Manchester’.
We obviously hope all they will need to add to that is ‘United’ rather than ‘City’, but I’m still unsure why they would bother breaking a tradition in football’s oldest competition.
Maybe that’s just sentimental nonsense on my part – but why not leave certain things as they are? I don’t think they’ve save much time by engaging ‘Manchester’ a few days prior to the final.
The FA’s Director of Professional Game Relations, Andy Ambler, said (via Manchester Evening News): “It’s remarkable that these giants of English football have won the competition on 18 out of a possible 141 occasions between them but not met in the final until now.
“This unique engraving underlines the historic nature of the game in prospect, and we can’t wait to see whether it will be City or United added to the trophy.”
It’s probably only a matter of time before they start preparing two trophies for each final!
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come on our mighty manchester united team in the Fa cup against manchester city this weekend come on rashford and casemiro and fred and luke shaw and anthony lets tare this Manchester city team to shreds once and for all and bring this FA Cup back to old trafford come on man utd lets do the business this season and make it a memorable one for all our Manchester united supporters.
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GLORY glory Manchester united pls let make dis one last cup of d season by defiting our rivals ,let make it a memorable day for all of our fans around d global world,
May ALMIGHTY ALLAH make it possible for our fans ,our team,
AMEEN YA ALLAH.
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