Yessss, Mario could be back for the Derby!

there were hundreds and hundreds of united in the main barca section behind the goal at wembley. you could see them all go up when rooney scored and the amount of ticketless reds who jibbed in our end was unreal. i've never seen the aisles so packed and there was at least three people stood in front of every seat in the bottom tier.

very true about the jibbing, I must have seen 40 or 50 jib in just while I was queuing. I was in the very very back row behind the United goal, it was heaving.

We took 60k to a Third Division play-off final, when we reach the CL Final I'd expect us to take more.

& most of them left before the end, shame.

'Most of them' ? What a vivid imagination you have.

its true, running back up Wembley way trying to get in!

Plus through the 80s & early 90s I went in every part of Maine rd watching united derby day, it was like a home game for us.

Thats when you wern't in a league below us by the way, "yo yo club"!!

I've been to about 20 derby games at OT, possibly more and half of those I wasn't in the away section.

yeh but not in the numbers we used to take to Maine rd.

Probably because they used to be on open sale at Maine Rd wheras you had to have tokens at OT.

but why were they on open sale?

They just were in the mid 80's, I wasn't in charge of ticketing. It all changed when the Kippax was rebuilt and the capacity was reduced.