Manchester United through Dante’s eyes …
#1 – Envy
Ruud van Nistelrooy faces up to a pampered Iago, Alex Ferguson is angered by Paul Gascoigne, Willie Morgan isn’t George Best and Bobby Charlton wants United to be like Barcelona …
#2 – Pride
Eric Cantona enjoys angry Leeds United fans, Roy Keane doesn’t necessarily enjoy anything, Andy Cole writes his one and only song and Alex Ferguson thinks like Matt Busby …
#3 – Gluttony
Alex Ferguson gets picky, and then becomes Rex Banner, Roy Keane takes on Liverpool’s Spice Boys and an unproven midfielder tests everyone else’s patience …
#4 – Sloth
Fabien Barthez does a Barthez, George Best loses interest, Dimitar Berbatov shrugs his shoulders, and Roy Keane doesn’t like when Peter Schmeichel does a Barthez …
#5 – Greed
Matt Busby lectures Denis Law, Andrei Kanchelskis wants out, Alex Ferguson chides Wayne Rooney and Van Nistelrooy comes to a realisation …
#6-7 – Wrath, Lust.
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Explain yourself. The difficulty in attempting a series such as this is that nothing is ever definitive; and that probably, all judgements are instinctive. The deadly sins overlap, where someone’s idea of ‘wrath’ could conceivably be filed under ‘pride’ by another, ‘lust’ for ‘greed’, ‘greed’ for ‘envy’ or ‘gluttony’ and so forth. Perhaps by committing another one of the cardinal sins, ‘sloth’, could one example lazily appear multiple times under multiple categories, which sounds more tempting the longer the fingers are flexed. But the aim of this series is not so much about the sins as it is covering aspects of history (a lot, understandably, recent history that is easier to access) but delivered in a way that, hopefully, doesn’t take itself too seriously.
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When people say nice things*: “Original ideas are hard to find, which is why the “Deadly Sins” series on ManUtd24 is a whiff of fresh air.” - Denys Koval, United Rant
*These are more for personal reference than an attempt to be showy. No, seriously.
