Internet myth?

[aka Dus]

Sorry for the skanky cut and paste but I got this in email and can't find it mentioned anywhere on the wehwehweh. Is there a thread about this already or is this just a random urbaninternetmyth?

 

Sir Alex Ferguson was fuming after the mascot

at the Carling Cup game

at

Old Trafford on Tuesday

night had the last

laugh.

 

10 year old Simon Walls

won a competition to be

the Man United mascot

on

the night, however all

was not as it

seemed?????.

 

Simon is from Liverpool

and a huge Anfield fan

so to win the

competition,

which his father Pete,

had entered him " for

the laugh " , was left

in a bit

of a dilemma.

 

Would he take up the

offer of a free night

at Old Trafford, a free

Man

United kit and track

suit or stick with his

true allegiances?

 

Not to upset the

sponsors of the

competition Nike, he

decided to accept

the offer and headed

for Manchester with his

dad Pete and his

grandfather

Joe.

 

As the teams left the

tunnel 10 year old

Simon removed his track

suit top

to reveal a Liverpool

Jersey and walked

proudly out with the

United team.

 

I thought nobody would

notice but the referee

asked if I was at the

right

match? said Simon on

Merseyside Radio on

Wednesday.

 

I was told to leave the

pitch after the coin

was tossed and head

straight

for the centre line

between the dugouts

where Ferguson was just

arriving.

He looked at me as I

kissed the Liverpool

crest on my jersey and

waved

goodbye to him?.

 

A spokesman for Old

Trafford said that

there was nothing in

the rules that

said the winner had to

wear the kit provided

but was disappointed

that the

opportunity to be a

mascot at Old Trafford

was taken by someone

who

obviously was not a fan.

[Ronnie Whelan]

PLTBT!

[Tones]

Seen this posted somewhere else and a lot of replies saying it wasnt true.

[cymrococh]

Ridiculous to suugest that he would do it just so as not to upset Nike. He's not f*cking Ronaldo.

[charlie clown]

he's one of the most articulate and coherent ten years olds I've ever heard of if that is true.

[Dmitch]

i would like to think it was true.. although if he was that close to Funguson and hes still alive its a bit of a let down!

[Leo No.8]

That story could have been improved by it turning out that the kid was that tramp's son who assaulted Fergie in London, and as he ran to the touchline he booted Sir Alex in the crotch with his size 3 and sang 'Fergie, Fergie shut yer mouth'.

[David Hodgson]

he's one of the most articulate and coherent ten years olds I've ever heard of if that is true.

 

I think he's being paraphrased a tad.

 

Still, good story, though had it been my 10 year old, he'd have dropped his keks and sh*t on the halfway line.

 

I would have been so proud.