{"id":295923,"date":"2026-01-21T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/295923\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:45:09","slug":"conor-mckeon-city-are-such-a-tiny-fking-club-my-flying-visit-to-sample-derby-delights-with-man-united-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/295923\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McKeon: \u2018City are such a tiny f**king club\u2019 \u2013 My flying visit to sample derby delights with Man United fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Manchester is a pale, concrete shade of grey but there is a light that never goes out for the Reds\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manchester United scarfs and a banner in protest against owners Jim Ratcliffe and the Glazer family outside the stadium.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/600931fc-a6b9-4291-b07b-856d2d8b1057.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Manchester United scarfs and a banner in protest against owners Jim Ratcliffe and the Glazer family outside the stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cShhhh,\u201d implores Dom, a teacher from Rochdale. \u201cShhh. Shut the f**k up, will ya?\u201d A maelstrom of anxious, edgy energy all morning, suddenly a hush falls over the Old Nag\u2019s Head. Sky\u2019s coverage of the Manchester derby has started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Everyone turns to face the screens. It\u2019s 11.31am. Up goes the volume. Roy Keane is on. Fire blazing in his eyes, Roy doesn\u2019t waste a second. Like Marc Overmars in 2001, he wires into his old club early doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester is a pale, concrete shade of grey but there is a light that never goes out for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[31891,18,19,17,20,2353,6795,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-295923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-conor-mckeon","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-manchester-city","14":"tag-pep-guardiola","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115933631275552978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}