ABUs are a sad lot.
We watch the United games at the Plough which is a Man U. bar near the now extinct market.
Good atmosphere and no ABU`s.
Rod
About Dragojac
My wife Andy and I first muted the idea of moving to another country over a bottle of retsina in a taverna on the Greek Island of Samos. The fires were fuelled by numerous other local, and sometimes disgusting, concoctions in far flung places around the globe until we decided it was time to stop talking and do something completely out of character-throw caution to the wind. Three years ago we swapped Manchester for an island that at one time we wouldn’t have thought exotic or different enough to have made it onto our holiday list, Tenerife. Yet the island we have spent the last three years learning to love and to live in, isn’t the same one that we used to read about and turn our noses up at. So now we’re on a mission; to spread the word that Tenerife is much more than a sun, sand and sea resort for weather weary Europeans.
We’re attempting this through writing travel articles for magazines and websites, photographing the lesser known aspects of the island, publishing a guide to discovering the lesser known face of Tenerife and through our website, Real Tenerife Island Drives
Although most of my work is writing travel pieces, I enjoy the freedom of creative writing far more, so this blog gives me the opportunity to indulge some of these impulses and have a bit of fun.
Despite being born and brought up on a Scottish island, I spent most of my adult life living near Manchester, England and during that time developed a passion for Man Utd. Ironically, living here has meant that I’ve been able to watch nearly every match they’ve played over the last three years. The down side of this unexpected pleasure has been that I regularly have to watch games in the company of a strange creature called ABUs (anyone but United) whose sad lives seem to revolve around watching Man Utd matches purely on the off chance that they’ll see us being defeated.
Responses
By: rod on December 23, 2007
at 2:45 pm
You’re a lucky man rod. My ‘reserve’ bar for watching Man U (when the first choice bar, the Beehive isn’t showing a game) is managed by a Man U hating Real Madrid supporter and get this; he hates Man U coz we spend too much money on players!!!!!!
By: dragojac on January 10, 2008
at 3:02 pm
