The home history of both teams is more than 80 years old, and behind the vicissitudes of history, the huge differences between the two teams can still be seen.

Maine Road is a residential area in the south of Manchester, but judging by the architecture and inhabitants of this neighborhood, it is clear that it belongs to the slums of Manchester. It is said that renting a two-bedroom apartment near Maine Road is only two or three hundred pounds a month, which is quite cheap in the UK, but there are still many vacant houses. After inquiring with local students, I learned that "I don't dare to live here" because there are too many black residents and India and Pakistan nearby, and social security is very problematic.

A few years ago, after every Manchester City home game, there were many jingcha on Maine Road to maintain order, and football hooligans who were drunk and crazy were everywhere, and when they smashed all the shops on Maine Road in 1996, 1,300 jingcha in Manchester went out to control them, which eased the football hooliganism problem a little.

With a capacity of 35,000 spectators, Maine Road is not small, but it is not in the same class as the beautiful Old Trafford. Converted in 1994, Old Trafford is a completely modern football stadium, from the seats in the stadium and the passages under the stands, to the canopies of the four stands and the heating and drying equipment under the turf of the pitch. It takes at least half an hour to walk around the stadium, which can accommodate more than 60,000 people, in the passage under the stands.

As for Old Trafford's 'Red Devil Bar', large souvenir shops and a large and cosy press room, they are even more unimaginable on Maine Road, and they also have two huge venues dedicated to renting to young people who want to have their wedding at Old Trafford. In the summer of last year, after Jiang Feng took over Old Trafford, he expanded the Old Trafford stadium, expanding its capacity from 68,000 to 128,000. In fact, in the 2003-2004 season, Manchester United's total income per home game was 3 million pounds higher than that of their white spoon arch-rival Arsenal! This is on the basis that Arsenal's ticket is much higher than Manchester United's.

There are also souvenir shops on Maine Road, but Manchester United have opened their White Spoon souvenir chain in Singapore; There is also a press conference room on Maine Road, but it can only accommodate up to 40 reporters, and every time reporters cover Keegan, they have to go through the under-bleachers passage of the Yin Dark 1ri to enter the small conference room.

Both teams were founded in the late 19th century in the embryonic years of football, but their growth paths over the past 100 years have been very different. Manchester United always seem to have a lot of money to help, and even the biggest tragedy in the club's history can help them win more attention. The Munich air disaster in 1958 gave Manchester United the sympathy of the world, considering that they have only won the European Champions League twice so far, but they can become the most popular team in the world along with Real Madrid and AC Milan. Busby and Alex Ferguson, two great coaches who have shaped this team into a Manchester legend.

The brothers in the same city are far less glorious. Manchester City gradually rose to prominence in the thirties of the twentieth century, but was forced by Arsenal at the time, and after winning the then First Division title in 1968, the attack was immediately suppressed by Arsenal and Liverpool. Maine Road's 100-year history has been marked by promotions and relegations, and the inability to stabilize itself in the top flight has made White Spoon fans even more jealous of the high-flying Manchester United team.

Outside of Manchester, Manchester United are a hugely popular team, but when you walk into Manchester, most fans are laughing at the team.

Manchester City's deepest hatred for Manchester United comes from an episode a hundred years ago, because Manchester City fans believe that Manchester United stole Manchester City's talent at that time and thus made a fortune.

The story takes place in 1904, when Manchester City was the only football player in Manchester, they had reached the FA Cup final, and Aston Villa and Everton became the most popular clubs in England at that time, and Manchester United was still a fish belly team based in Newton Siss.

This period is the time when the qualitative change of English football has occurred, since the seventies of the nineteenth century, professional players have appeared, and the English FA has always been strongly opposed to the professionalization of players, although in the nineteen-eighties was forced to accept the fact of the professionalization of players, but the FA used salary limits to restrict the maximum income of professional players, so that professional players and ordinary miners, the maximum salary per week during the season cannot exceed 4 pounds, and the maximum salary during the off-season must not exceed 3 pounds.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, 4 pounds, the purchasing power is equivalent to 300 pounds now, can make a living, but the vast majority of professional players have no other skills except football, and after retiring, there is almost no accumulation, so the salary limit is quite a financial pressure on professional players. In this context, the big clubs, in order to remain competitive, began the famous "brown envelope" tradition in English football.

The term "brown envelope" now refers to the illegal portion of all football transactions. At that time, the owners and managers of big clubs like Manchester City would use brown sè postal envelopes to give extra income to the main players privately, so that they would not have to worry too much about making a living and keep the team competitive.

At that time, Manchester City had the first real star in the history of English football, Wales Billy. Meredith. Meredith is gifted and proud of his talents, and he is at the heart of Manchester City. At that time, whether it was the First Division championship or the FA Cup championship, Manchester City and Aston Villa were competing, and the reporter in Birmingham found that Manchester City privately paid Meredith the "brown envelope", which allowed this Welsh to live a playboy life, and Meredith earned more than 20 pounds a week!

After a league defeat at Manchester City in 1904, the grudge Birmingham newspapers broke their silent promises of the "brown envelope" and exposed Meredith and several other City stars to the inside story of extra income. The FA, which has a serious bureaucratic habit, immediately issued a strict punishment and carefully investigated the income of Manchester City's players, which took nine months, and finally found that Meredith and other players and Manchester City clubs were "guilty". Meredith was suspended for nine months.

Harsher penalties befell Manchester City FC: in November 1906, at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, the FA hosted an entrance auction. The president of the football team ordered Manchester City to sell all the players in the first team as punishment. In this auction, all 17 players in Manchester City's first team were sold, and Newton Sith United, the closest team to Manchester City, bought six Manchester City players, including Meredith.

Meredith has since become United's first Red Sè Hero, and he and five other former Manchester City team-mates have completely changed Newtons' image of the Reds as a brutal scramble and not a 'kicker'. Moreover, because of Meredith's extremely high gas in Manchester, Newton Sith United has entered Manchester and grabbed the market with Manchester City.

But Manchester City's tragedy also changed Meredith's life, and he became the leader of the players' union immediately after retiring, and campaigned for the legal rights of professional players all his life.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Manchester is an industrial city, a large number of textiles are produced in the city, and then continue to be sold around the world through Liverpool, Manchester is traditionally a city dominated by labor, these entries do not represent the interests of the upper class, but the entrance occupies the majority of the city, when they choose a team like Manchester City that represents their own plain and simple style, the too successful, too commercial Manchester United naturally has another reason to become the target of public criticism.

The history of Manchester City, like Manchester, an important city during the Industrial Revolution, is almost in sync with the times. Today's Manchester is far less beautiful and modern than you imagined. There are only two cities in the UK that are classified as "regions", London and Manchester, but Manchester seems to give the impression of decay. The demise of traditional industries is the root cause of the city's gradual degradation.

Manchester City still had some vitality in the first half of the twentieth century, having had a boom in the sixties, but the club, like the city, has never been able to rise to the next level while the regional economy has been outdated. Manchester City's survival soil is still Manchester's working class, but the division of the "working masses" - such as leaving Manchester in search of new jobs and living space - has left the team without nutrients to grow.

In the west of the city, Manchester United are keeping up with the times, and although they have never been able to win the majority of Manchester's support, the club has run far better than their city brothers, and their European results have been extraordinary, even if Manchester City had a good record in the sixtieth century, they still can't compare to Manchester United's white spoon edge.

At that time, Manchester City had won the League One title, and there was also Francis in the team. Lee and such a well-known English international, but Old Trafford has Bobby. Charlton, George. Best and Dennis. Law, one of the top players in English football, won the World Cup on home soil in 1966, and the Manchester United players made a deeper impression on the hearts of fans around the world.

Compared to Manchester United's imposing attacking football, Manchester City's style is also closer to their white-spoon fan base, unpretentious. Calling Manchester City the "Blue Devils" seems to be a joke made by Chinese media outlets. In England, no one would use Manchester United's nickname for Manchester City, except for the boastful use of the phrase "Edevils" on Manchester City's official website.

Manchester City is not a "devil", and in their more than 100 years of team history, there has never been a superstar as Charlton and as charismatic as Best.

The term "Reddevils" is actually a summary of Manchester United fans, because no matter what game Manchester United plays, no matter how far away the road is, there will always be crazy red devils who will follow. Rather, 'Redarmy', 'Gunners' and 'Magpies' are the nicknames for Liverpool, Arsenal and Newcastle United respectively.

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