The Manchester Derby - Players' Lounge Sunday 30th Nov K.O. 5.30pm

Choose not knowing the history of your club. Choose Busby the Blue. Choose Dennis Law’s backheel. Choose Sir Bobby Ticket Tout. Choose staging the World Cup in '66 and being handed a huge sum from the FA to develop your stadium but continue to bang on about City’s ground. Choose opening the gates at Old Trafford in the 60s after kick off to let people in for free. Choose forgetting you went 41 years without winning a trophy. Choose your highest ever attendance being at Maine Road. Choose that attendance still being lower than City's. Choose United’s globalism and domination since the late '90s whilst forgetting the past. Choose an air disaster as a marketing tool. Choose forgetting about the survivors of Munich and kicking them out of their houses (which you owned) because they could no longer play football. Choose waiting 22 years to set up a charity match for the families of Munich. Choose milking Munich for 50 years and then getting beat by ickle ciddy on your own soil. Choose asking AIG to sponsor the Munich memorial.

Choose having statues of two City players outside your ground. Choose being so obsessed with City that you have a permanent banner dedicated to us on the Stretford End. Choose paying £28 million for Veron. Choose 19,000 fans at Old Trafford to watch you play Middlesbrough when you were in Division One but pretend you have loyal support. Choose the have-to-go-to-all-cup-games-because-you're-forced-to ticket policy. Choose the USA. Choose debt. Choose pricing out your own fans in favour of corporate Londoners. Choose having your own manager and players criticise your fans. Choose prawn sandwiches. Choose not being able to stand. Choose being outsung by 3,000 travelling away fans each game. Choose having Mick Hucknall and Eamon Holmes as your celebrity fans. Choose FC United…if they become successful. Choose Trafford. Choose United.

It's the 150th Manchester Derby, ladies and gentlemen. Do whatever it takes to be there.

Schalke 04 Vs MCFC - The Players' Lounge Thursday 27th Nov K.O. 10.00pm

Following on from Saturday's mauling of Arsenal at Eastlands, Mark Hughes takes his team to the World Cup '06 city of Gelsenkirchen, as the Blues tackle FC Scahlke 04 in the UEFA Cup 2nd Round Group Stage.

There are some striking similarities between the two clubs: Both are extremely well supported and both play in impressive state-of-the-art stadia. Unfortunately, both are also rubbish when it comes to winning things!

Schalke have long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major success has been rare since the club's heyday in the 1930s and early 1940s. The club's stadium, known as the Veltins Arena under a sponsorship agreement with a brewery, was completed in the summer of 2001 and can hold up to 61,673 spectators. The Royal Blues' last major success came in 1997, when they beat Internazionale on penalties in Milan to win the UEFA Cup.

mcfcUAE will be meeting from 8pm onwards at The Players' Lounge in Bur Dubai's Country Club Hotel (Port Rashid) to watch this match. Kick-off is at 10pm Dubai time. See you there.

Dave