Below taken from the Manchester Evening Newspaper
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Fury at soccer screen ban
Mike Keegan
16/ 5/2008
MANCHESTER United fans are furious the Champions League Final won't be shown on big screens as a result of the Rangers riots.
They claim their own city has turned its back on them.
Thousands of Reds fans unable to travel to Moscow next Wednesday had hoped to watch the final in the city.
And the M.E.N. can reveal there had been plans for a special homecoming parade on Thursday for the United team if they win the Champions League. But this too could now be under threat. It may only take place if the club and police push for it.
Within minutes of the announcement that there would be no screens for the Chelsea match, the M.E.N. website was inundated with angry fans.
Many criticised the behaviour of the travelling Scots.
One wrote: "So because of a load of brain-dead Rangers thugs, Manchester isn't even going to cater for its own team's supporters in the biggest club match of the season. Thanks Rangers fans. Do come again."
`Charlie', from Manchester, said: "How unfair! So not only have the Rangers fans left our city in a complete state, questioned our hospitality and made us out to be the bad guys, they have now stopped us from being free to watch United's match in the city of Manchester! What a joke!"
`Stretford Ender' was `really disappointed' with the decision.
He said: "Because of drunken Rangers fans, we can't see our own team play in our own city! We would not destroy our own city like foreigners did!"
Behaviour
Blackley MP Graham Stringer, a former leader of Manchester Council, has urged it to reconsider.
He said: "The council quite rightly have concerns after the absolutely appalling behaviour seen last night and do not want a repetition.
"But they should rethink. England and United matches have been shown on big screens, as was the Olympic Games bid when huge numbers of Mancunians came into their city and behaved themselves."
Tony Lloyd, MP for Manchester Central also called for a `second look'.
He said: "People who would come into the city to watch the match won't even be United fans from outside our region. They'll be local people and it is better to have them in a structured environment. I hope they look at it again."
But council leader Sir Richard Leese said the decision was taken in the interest of residents and city users.
He said there would definitely be no outdoor screenings of the match in the city.
But city centre resident Margaret Parkes said: "Our fans would not behave like that. Wednesday was awful.
"But I'm in my 80s and usually I like to see the football fans. They would be coming from work and it would be good to have the screens."
One disgruntled fan has set up an online petition against the decision.
It can be found at: www.gopetition.com/petitions/big-screens-in-manchester-for-the-champions-league-final.html
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Thanks Rangers Fans - you bunch of bloody Tossers