Reports
have emerged today that The Sandman, responsible for helping millions of
children to fall asleep at night, has asked Manchester United to cease
referring to Old Trafford as the ‘Theatre of Dreams’.
Despite
being the scene of many a triumphant performance for the club, since the
retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson United’s home ground has been as much a place
for nightmares as dreams.
Many place
blame on Ferguson’s hand-picked replacement David Moyes, who has since been
removed from his position but The Sandman feels the damage has been done to his
good name and has asked that the club stop using the Theatre of Dreams name
until they have turned things around and people stop associating dreams with
the downturn of one of football’s most successful clubs.
Fans want to get away from seeing this when they close their eyes
“It’s making
my job seriously difficult. I was working in Eccles the other week and this
young girl, a big Manchester United fan, was having trouble getting to sleep. I
told her that I could help and that she would soon be asleep and dreaming and
she suddenly sat bolt upright. She was terrified at the idea of dreaming after
being at Old Trafford the weekend before. For a lot of these fans, dreams have
now become synonymous with despair.”
The Sandman
has insisted that once the club’s fortunes have been turned around he would be
happy to allow the club to use the nickname again but for now he has asked they
consider others and refrain from using it.
“It took me
a long time to rebuild my reputation after that Metallica song ‘Enter Sandman’
and I can’t afford to be in a position of needing to do that again.”
In the meantime we'll take suggestions as to what you think the club should nickname the ground in the comments section or talk to us on Twitter
In the meantime we'll take suggestions as to what you think the club should nickname the ground in the comments section or talk to us on Twitter
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