Official Site: "Manchester United... could be the subject of a police investigation"

In addition to the massive coincidence that sees Sky rearrange a Saturday-scheduled LFC-ManUtd fixture to the Monday (as opposed to a Sunday lunchtime kick-off) comes the following. Manchester Untouchables?! (NB: By rearranging the game to the Monday, Rio Ferdinand becomes available for one extra game in the season, as his ban for drug-related offences ends officially at midnight on the night before the game. This happened some years ago too when Eric Cantona's ban for violently assaulting a supporter ended on a Saturday. Sky rearranged the LFC v Man U game that year too, once again allowing Cantona to play an extra game that season. To think that Sky once part-owned Manchester United!)

From the official LFC site
FANS SHOCKED BY OFFICIAL MAN UTD WEBSITE
Paul Rogers
19 September 2004

Manchester United's official website, ManUtd.com, could be the subject of a police investigation after publishing a guide to abusing Liverpool's players and supporters in Spanish.
Considering relations between the two sets of supporters is volatile at the best of times with some fans from both teams being subjected to brutal assaults throughout the years when Liverpool and Manchester United have met, police are thought to believe the decision to publish the article on an official website is particularly irresponsible. The article appears on the club's official website under the section Fanzone and is billed as "Fanzone presents 'Spanish Scouse-Baiting' as Benitez's Hispanic Liverpool visit Old Trafford". The article then goes on to explain the Spanish translations for some of the sickest chants directed at Liverpool supporters over the years - including "Build a bonfire, build a bonfire, put the Scousers on the top", "You find a dead rat and you think it's a treat, in your Liverpool slums" and "Feed the Scousers. Let them know it's Christmas time." Alongside each English chant and Spanish translation is a picture of Rafael Benitez, Xabi Alonso, Luis Garcia and Josemi - implying that it is these four who should be targeted with abuse on Monday night. While the police may want to talk to someone from Manchester United about the article, it is believed the website editors are under clear instructions from those at the very top to make the content of Fanzone particularly "edgy and controversial" in an attempt to appeal to Manchester United supporters who would rather get their daily fix of United news and comment from one of the many independent websites who have nothing to with the commercial side of the club itself. While many Manchester United supporters have still not forgiven the club for removing the words 'Football Club' from their badge in 1998 (A decision made during Peter Kenyon's time at Old Trafford because they didn't want their 'brand' to be associated with football when it had become a leisure enterprise which could be linked tonon-footballing matters, such as clothing, media and even other sports such as baseball), articles such as the one that appears on the website today explaining how to abuse Liverpool's players in Spanish, are seen as an attempt to gain some credibility amongst die-hard fans who cringe when they see the likes of mascot Fred the Red.