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# Manchester United fans set to keep 'ticker' banner even if Manchester City
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end trophy drought with FA Cup win
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## Manchester United fans look set to stick with their famous 'ticker' banner
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even if their City rivals end their 35-year trophy drought this weekend. They
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claim their neighbours have bought their success, an accusation also levelled
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at United by City supporters.
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![Manchester United fans look set to stick with their ?ticker? banner even if
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Manchester City win FA Cup][1]
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Mocking: the banner counts down the years since Manchester City won silverware
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Photo: ANDREWVDBK
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By Graham Chase 5:43PM BST 10 May 2011
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**[City][3] **could finally pick up some silverware for the first time since
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1976 when they face Stoke in the FA Cup final on Saturday, kicking off half an
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hour after **[United][4]** could secure a record 19th Premier League title at
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Blackburn.
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The Old Trafford banner marking City's trophy drought -- it is moved on a year
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each Feb 28 to mark the date that the club won the League Cup -- has become a
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focal point to derbies, which have increased in intensity since Sheikh Mansour
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bin Zayed Al Nahyan's takeover in 2008.
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On his arrival at Eastlands at the end of 2009, manager Roberto Mancini
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claimed that his priority was to pull the banner down and now that City, who
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beat United in the semi-finals last month, are just one game away from a
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trophy the debate is raging among United supporters about what to do if they
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win.
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Andrew Kilduff, of Stretford End flags, says that there are no fixed plans but
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keeping the banner is an option. Any changes will be in place for the
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Blackpool game on the final day of the season.
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"It'll stay up if they don't win it and if they do, it might come down but
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there are lots of other options," he said.
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"It could stay up to mark how long they hadn't won a trophy, or to show that
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they've bought a trophy, rather than won one, and let it continue to tick, or
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we could rotate it to 43 years to mark when they last won the league.
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"If City do win the FA Cup the first thing they'll be asking is for that
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banner to come down. The players, managers, fans, they're all obsessed by it
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and they talk about it much more than United supporters do."
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Neil Mitchell, secretary of the Rusholme and Moss Side branch of the City
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supporters' club, is adamant that victory at Wembley would not be diluted by
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United winning the title but he resents the insinuation that City are the
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first club to push for honours because of their power in the transfer market.
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"I don't think I need to quote all of the records on transfer fees that go all
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the way back to Bryan Robson, most expensive teenagers and defenders, all
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that," Mitchell said.
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"Chelsea have done it as well but it seems to be different because it's us
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that have got a bit of dough. We're buzzing at the moment but I'm not too sure
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about the other half because not many of them live here anyway."
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City's Bredbury and South Manchester supporters' club branch chairman Colin
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Hulme hopes that the ticker banner will be removed if they win the Cup.
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"They've played on it for a long time and if the result is in our favour I'd
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hope they'd take it down," Hulme said. "I'd like to think they'd respect it if
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we win a trophy but, whatever they do, we'll be happy if we win because it's
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been a long time coming."
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