Within a half hour of posting the above image from yesterday's Community Shield, we received the following response from 'n8e', the man who claims to be the creator of the banner. The diatribe may be in all-caps, but he at least correctly uses the word 'whom'. Neutrals may be interested to know that we traced the URL address of n8e back to Manchester London:
"THIS IS MY BANNER! I DESIGNED IT, PRINTED IT & IT GOT ON EVERY SINGL TV WORLDWIDE SO WAS WORTH EVERY PENNY !! ANYTHING TO ANNOY THE CITY FANS WHOM I HATE WITH ALL MY HEART !!!!
YES UNITED MAY HAVE MADE SOME BIG SIGNINGS BUT WE WIN TROPHIES TOO, WHEREAS CITY ARE ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, ONLY MONEY, JUST ONE TROPHY IN 35 YEARS !! PATHETIC !!
MONEY CANNOT BUY SUCCESS !"
YESTERDAY SHOWED ONCE AGAIN WHO ARE THE TRUE CHAMPIONS !!
NANIIIIIIIIIII !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!