City and United will play each other for the trophy for the first time on Saturday, and fans are already preparing
for the first time in an FA Cup final on Saturday, few fans at Wembley will have travelled as far as Leon Labko to witness the Manc-Manc showdown.
Labko flies to the UK four or five times a season but physically recoils at the idea that perhaps it would be easier on his pacemaker just to move to. “You’ve got to be kidding,” he said. “You guys only get about two days of sunshine a year.” He hoped to squeeze in to the Bishop Blaize on Saturday and predicted a 2-1 win for United. The pub manager plonked down Bennett’s beans on toast and interjected with his own prediction: “Three-nil to City.” Hang on a minute, the manager of the nearest pub to Old Trafford is a blue? Apparently so.
Drinking outside in the sunshine, a group of men ribbed each other about Saturday’s game. One, a City fan, Warren, claimed that his friend Gilly, a red, was off to Wembley. “He’s a bricklayer and he’s going to build a wall around the United goal ’cos that’s the only way they can win,” said Warren. “He’ll take a load of breeze blocks too, in case Haaland [City’s star striker] has a go.”
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