Desperate attempt to revive rags' fortunes fails

[Ted Hughes]

No fucking way it would have worked with this shower..

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... on-tuesday

Manchester United's plane had to abort its landing in Cologne on Tuesday

The Manchester United squad had to endure some mid-air drama before they landed safely in Germany on Tuesday.

United were arriving ahead of their Champions League game at Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday but their chartered plane had to abort its landing just 400m above the runway in Cologne.

The 185-seater Monarch Airbus 321 plane was unable to land because there was another plane on the runway and the pilot had to circle the airport before touching down 10 minutes late at 5.40pm.

Defender Rio Ferdinand wrote on Twitter afterwards: "Landed in Germany ... just. I've only just recovered after that choppy landing!"

And another member of the United camp told the Manchester Evening News: "It was quite frightening.

"We were coming in to land when we had to pull up suddenly, because it appears there was a plane on the runway.

"The captain came on the intercom to apologise for what happened and then we landed safely."

United manager David Moyes and other senior figures, including former chief executive David Gill, were on the flight with the squad, but Sir Bobby Charlton and former boss Sir Alex Ferguson were not on board, although they are both due to attend the match.

Sly old bastards.

[Beefymcfc]

Phew, they fucking made it!

[Green & Blue]

When the pilot lost consciousness it was lucky Januzaj was on hand to land the plane safely...

[AG7]

Maybe Fellaini had gone into the cockpit to checkout the lights on runway ahead and then pilots lost their view somewhere in his hair ...

Or was it Moyes' who wanted to see the inside of the cockpit and the pilots got confused with his eyes shinning off the lights as cat eyes do on the runway?

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

Who sponsored the aborted landing?

[AG7]

Plane spotted, the one on the runway blocking their way ...

-** insert the etihad's man city plane image here pls. **- (my mobile app gives a parsing error when trying to upload)

The words on the side of the plane say "Blue Moon Rising" ... and it is widely believed that's gonna block their landing/take-offs here on everywhere ...

[Beefymcfc]

Who sponsored the aborted landing?

I laughed.

[Bianchi on Ice]

When the pilot lost consciousness it was lucky Januzaj was on hand to land the plane safely...

Surely the plot of the film dictates that he is home alone?

[branny]

Maybe somebody wanted to join the mile high club and because he was 40yrs old, hadn't quite finished so they had to go back up.

[Lee_R]

Lol that pilots got a sense of humour.

[gillie]

A minutes silence at their next home game no doubt.

[Herb]

A minutes silence at their next home game no doubt.

They get plenty of minutes of silence at every home game - more atmosphere on mars!

[Slim]

Thank god nothing happened, imagine the tragedy.

Another fifty fucking years of them milking the deaths of their own players.

[dario2739]

A minutes silence at their next home game no doubt.

They're installing a commemorative clock on the side of the swamp as we speak!