Manchester City and Manchester play FA Cup – 05/31/2023 – Juca Kfouri

The 190th Manchester Derby, a tradition born in 1891, with a large advantage for United —with 78 wins against City’s 58—, for the first time, this Saturday (3), at 11 am in Brasília, at the sanctuary of Wembley, will decide a title, that of the FA Cup, in the situation of whoever wins will be the champion.

Blue ones are better, red ones are bigger.

United are the only English club to have the Triple Crownand City want it, with the FA Cup in the role of the second jewel and the Champions League, on the 10th, in Istanbul, against Inter Milan, to make the treble.

The Mancunians, or Manchesterians, are divided between the Citizens and the Red Devils, with a predominance of the Red Devils over the Citizens, not only in Manchester (55% to 45%) but throughout England (United has the biggest crowd and City , the seventh) and around the world. There are surveys that indicate United as the most popular club in the world, although they are not 100% reliable.

Manchester has less than 600,000 inhabitants, half of that of Campinas, but, excuse the people of Campinas, the English derby leaves behind the one between Guarani and Ponte Preta.

The City of the Catalan, best coach and true citizen of the world Pep Guardiola, the brilliant Belgian Kevin de Bruyne and the Norwegian goal-scoring machine Erling Haaland, ended the Premier League champion and 14 points ahead of third place, United, of the Casemiro trio , Bruno Fernandes and Rashford.

But more than ever between the two, classic is classic and vice versa.

Like this Thursday night (1st), at Maracanã, 8 pm, at Fla-Flu that decides who will go to the quarterfinals of the Copa do Brasil.

basketball prophets

Once again, sports specialists failed, as is often the case with them, economists and meteorologists: the Miami Heat, against all odds, defeated the Boston Celtics at their rival’s home and prevented the unprecedented feat that would be the turn from 0-3 to 4-3 in the NBA playoffs.

But it wasn’t just that they defeated, because they ran over, there was practically no game, with a secure advantage maintained from the first quarter until reaching the surprising score of 103 to 84.

Now Miami’s challenge is greater: to overcome the Denver Nuggets, who were never champions but ended the season in first place in the overall standings.

Miami, which finished eighth and is the second team in history to reach the decision with such a low placement, has already been champion three times, in 2006, 2012 and 2013.

The decision starts this Thursday (1st/6), at 9:30 pm, and will be broadcast on so many channels, between one open and three closed, in addition to four more streams, that it will be easy for the dear reader to watch.

I don’t quote them because a dog bitten by a snake is afraid of sausage.

Kirrata

The mistake of this Sheet acted generously with this columnist by not registering two miserable mistakes that were published here, in the printed edition, last Monday (29), namely: the next Corinthians game will be in Horto, in Belo Horizonte, against América, not in Itaquera.

And Boston v Miami would be, as it were, broadcast on Band, SporTV2 and Prime Video, not ESPN2 and Star+.

If any rare reader missed the game because of the unjustifiable mistake, this journalist apologizes with embarrassment.

In the digital edition, it was corrected.

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