Glory2 MU~

First, let me warn you that this post is filled with over excited statements that might annoy people, but what the heck, I’m on cloud 19, and like my friend stated in my Facebook, no drugs could make me happier than this one particular event: Manchester United Asia Tour in Kuala Lumpur 2009. Here goes a diary of a stalker. Haha.

Friday: Found out they’re staying at Mandarin Oriental, which was the opposite of my office building at 4.30 pm, and found out they’re having Meet-the-Fans session! Darn, so near yet I could miss that, and they’re about to go for their training session at Bukit Jalil so my stalking day hasn’t begun yet.

Saturday: Watched the Game! Good game, surprisingly good team from Malaysia (and MU wasn’t sharp anyway). Been cheering for both teams, but excited to finally see the players in live action (although quite far) so I thought that was it. MU came, everyone was happy and they go home. The end. Boy, I was wrong!

Sunday: Found out they’re having rematch! I’m all set to go but it took me some times to find people to go with this time around. Managed to get uncle, auntie cousins and friends to go. And my uncle belanja me! Double yeay! Can’t wait for Monday rematch. 2 matches in one visit? Great news for ardent fans like me!

Monday: Took halfday off to begin my stalking day at Mandarin Oriental. Looks like there are some fanatics who have been lingering there every single day since Friday! (Looks like I can be considered medium fanatic fan). Even met my uncle there! (lol). So I’ve waited for hours till the players came out to go to the stadium. Watch the players within few feet from me and managed to get Scholesy signature on my jersey! A United Legend, besides Giggsy (which if I’ve got it, that’s the end of my stalking days). So, ran to the Stadium to give friends their tics (Tremendous apology to them) and cheered the teams for the second match. Wasn’t as good as Saturday, too easy for MU, but still, watching it live still brought joy to me.

Tuesday: Stop by at Mandarin before went to office (it’s so near I couldn’t resist) and managed to see Rooney, Fletch and Fergie at the gym! I was pleading the security for signature or picture but they didn’t allow me. Security sucks. Haha. So went to office and waited for lunch time so I could go there for last time (yeah, right). When I was there for lunch, the fans told me they’re out for golf and will be back soon. Took an emergency half day and waited with them.

While waiting, Nick Coppack, the official reporter for MU Asia Tour was hanging around in the lobby, so had conversations with him about MU and he said he would mentioned us in his blog. Wasn’t expecting he would do that for real but he did! I was mentioned on MUFC official website! How cool is that? (Maybe it’s a big deal only to me, but who cares again. Haha). Thanks Nick for being such a cool and sweet lad.

Good looking reporter isn't he.Haha.

And when they arrived (like hours of waiting, again), I’ve managed to get Sir Alex Ferguson signature!!! The best manager in the universe!! (He even asked his bonzer to hold my shirt while he signed it because I didn’t put it on hard cover). He’s the sweetest of them all! Second legend to sign my jersey (still no Giggsy L). Managed to se Macheda up close and he nearly signed my jersey if it wasn’t for the stupid security people (Malaysian security mind you). Macheda was a sport too, I guess because it’s his first international fame exposure. Tomorrow they’re going back around 9 (according to Nick) so maybe I’ll stop by to see if I’m lucky to get anyone’s signature (By this day, I was already satisfied with what I’ve had). Oh yeah, my face was on Berita Harian but didn’t manage to buy it.

Tuesday: Managed to arrive before the team left. Waited to see if I could have the impossible Giggsy signature (why was it so hard for you to use the marker and just sign Giggsy *sigh*). When the team finally say goodbye for the last time, I’ve managed to get 2 of Van Der Sar’s signature (Again, a legend, as he is the best keeper in the world!) and nearly got Ferdinand, he was inches away from me! Evra shook hands with the fans and the others just went straight to the bus. So that was it. 3 signatures (4 including Nick) on my jersey are enough for me to frame it and remember it for a long long time.
More crazier fans than me. Lol.

Overall, was the first time I ever done something crazy like this. But it was priceless to see the faces I’ve watched during late night and early morning matches on television, thousand of miles away from home standing like inches away from me, and it were indescribable by words. Crazy or not, this is something I could treasure for the rest of my life. Glorious!

Some of the up close of the players and manager

Priceless Scholes' signature :p