Man Utd: The toss

[Michael]

Some people go to WAY too much trouble.

No trouble..... there is a mountain of data regarding the orientation of both the new and old stadium. We dont just plonk buildings down any old fashion!

[Parm]

Not at all. it is tradition that we shoot towards the Kop second half. It is therefore very noticeable when we've lost the toss.

indeed it is, first thing I noticed as well, thought the mAncs had won it and forced us to switch around.

[Rich]

Aren't the cardboard boxes for stands a little bit poor quality though?

[Michael]

you get what you pay for!

[Row19Seat111]

Sorry to p*ss on everyone's fireworks but you might wanna read this from the BBC website, Kevin Nolan's column last week...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6400223.stm

Kevin, when you toss the coin before kick-off do you normally chose heads or tails? And why do people so rarely change ends when they win the toss?
Tommy, UK

It is not a normal coin that is used - it is a Fifa coin with one side blue and the other yellow. I always choose yellow.

I ask El-Hadji Diouf if he wants to changes ends. If he says nothing then I usually don't.

You can no longer choose whether you want to kick-off or not as a consequence of an issue over betting several years ago.

[Mumsafan]

true, but what seemed odd here is that we WON the toss. but chose to act as if we'd lost it by breaking that tradition. michaels vid shows why.

If we won and broke with tradition then we deserve everything we get