United & Proud
The Official Manchester United Podcast
Manchester United
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
To mark the occasion of Manchester Pride in August, the UTD Podcast team have been looking into the links between United, the city of Manchester and the LQBTQ+ community. Join Sam Homewood and Zarah Connolly on a tour around the city with Josh from Free Manchester Walking Tours to learn why Manchester is such a welcoming and inclusive city. You may be surprised at what you learn!
Sam and Zarah are also joined by James & Sam from the Rainbow Devils, who share their story, their relationship with United and the great work that the Rainbow Devils supporters club do.
In this episode you’ll also hear from first team players Leah Galton, Christian Eriksen, Martha Thomas and Marcus Rashford. They tell us what they love about Manchester as well as their thoughts on Manchester Pride.
Produced by Nick Thomson.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, um, in principle, wants football to be welcoming for everyone and want every |
| 0:04.6 | man United's sport to feel like they should be allowed to go there. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello and welcome to a very special episode of the United podcast I'm Sam Holman and with me is |
| 0:19.2 | Zara Connolly. Now United and Proud is a special one-off episode looking into the |
| 0:23.2 | links that United and the city of Manchester has with the LGBTQ plus community. |
| 0:28.4 | It's a celebration of all things football, Manchester and inclusivity. |
| 0:32.0 | It is and usually we do these podcasts sat in a specific location that's relevant to what we're |
| 0:36.0 | doing or the player that we're speaking to but today we're out in Manchester City centre. |
| 0:39.8 | We've got Sam and James with us from Rainbow Devils. Guys, say hello. Hello. |
| 0:43.8 | That was nice in Canada. It was a beautiful, I enjoyed that. |
| 0:46.7 | And we've also got Josh from Manchester Walking Tours. |
| 0:48.9 | Josh, tell us please a bit about who you are and what you're going to bring to our day. |
| 0:52.1 | Yeah, my name is Josh. I run LGBT Manchester Walking Tours and also like |
| 0:56.7 | tips-based walking tours that run each day. And what we're doing today, we're going to walk around |
| 1:01.2 | the gay village, look at the pubs, murals, backstreet, sort of learn more about Manchester's LGBT |
| 1:06.4 | history, link to diversity, link to Manchester United, whatever comes into my head and I think |
| 1:11.8 | you might be vaguely interested in. The first question there obviously is we know that |
| 1:16.9 | Sam and James are United fans because they're here from Rainbow Devils. What about you Josh? |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, I mean, one of my earliest memories, a group in Solford, and I remember the 1999, |
| 1:27.8 | the entire street going absolutely bananas, me like sat at the top of the stairs, |
| 1:33.2 | that wasn't allowed downstairs to watch it because it must have been six. |
| 1:35.9 | They'd been rushing down when the first goal went in and then obviously then I was allowed |
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