Donald Trump is the 45th President of these United States of America, like it or not. This is reality despite his losing the popular vote by 2.8 million and receiving votes from just 27% of the eligible American electorate. As painful as it is to say, he is the man who is currently in the world’s most powerful position and as such has influence in places that you would never imagine.
Take for instance the League Cup of English football. With the EFL Cup Final set to kickoff on Sunday, and Manchester United vying with Southampton for the trophy, the Manchester Evening News unearthed this gem from the last time United won the title.
The future 45th president of the United States had the fate of the competition in his hands as he made the quarter-final draw at Trump Tower four months previously.
Filmed as part of ITV’s Saint and Greavsie show in December, 1991, Trump stole the show when he unearthed a gem of a tie in that green velvet bag of his.
Leeds vs Manchester United.
“That’s a biggy, that sounds like the type of game I want to go to,” Trump deadpans while sitting in one of his many boardrooms.
The newspaper refers to the draw for the 1992 Rumbelows Cup (same tournament known as the EFL Cup today, named the Capital One Cup last year) and it is unintentionally hilarious to hear Trump use the word “biggy” and then extol the virtues of a match that he clearly knows nothing about.
Today Donald Trump has now moved on from from using the word “biggy” to the fake word “bigly,” which he does quite frequently.
At times, it sounds like he’s saying “big league,” but politicos maintain that it’s actually “bigly” he’s uttering, not the adjective “big league” which is in fact an actual word. Trump obviously knew next to nothing about the tournament at the time, and I would bet the farm on his being totally unable to name even a single player on either team back when the draw was made.
Anyway, here’s a link to the match odds, our MUFC starting XI prediction, odds score prediction and more.
Paul M. Banks runs The Sports Bank.net, partnered with FOX Sports Engage Network. and News Now. Banks, a former writer for the Washington Times and Bold, contributes regularly to the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye publication, CGTN America, WGN CLTV News and KOZN.
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