{"id":296903,"date":"2023-12-02T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=296903"},"modified":"2023-12-02T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:24:08","slug":"julia-roberts-confesses-that-she-felt-possessed-watching-man-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/julia-roberts-confesses-that-she-felt-possessed-watching-man-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Roberts confesses that she felt &apos;POSSESSED&apos; watching Man United"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Julia Roberts confesses that she felt &#8216;POSSESSED&#8217; watching Man United as she describes her journey to becoming a &#8216;true fan&#8217; of the Red Devils<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Erin Brockovich star has made no secret of her love for Manchester club\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News comes to the dismay of lifelong Roberts fan &#8211; Man City boss Pep Guardiola\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Raphael Varane row is undermining United boss Erik ten Hag &#8211; It&#8217;s All Kicking Off<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Julia Roberts has underscored her love of Manchester United in a new interview, just months after posing with Erik ten Hag and Marcus Rashford during the club&#8217;s pre-season United States tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pretty Woman actress is an avowed fan of the club and has visited the Manchester side&#8217;s ground Old Trafford a number of times, most recently in November 2016, as well as watching the Red Devils play away from home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In July, Roberts took in a pre-season friendly featuring Ten Hag&#8217;s side against Arsenal at New Jersey&#8217;s MetLife Stadium, which saw Man United snatch victory from their Premier League rivals in 2-0 win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And on Friday evening, the Hollywood star doubled down on her love for the red side of Manchester, saying that she and her family had been &#8216;possessed&#8217; by their fandom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve been to Old Trafford, I&#8217;m a true fan,&#8217; Roberts told Graham Norton on his eponymous\u00a0BBC talkshow when asked about how she game to support the side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/12\/78465605-12817503-Julia_Roberts_spoke_about_iconic_90s_movie_Pretty_Woman_on_the_G-m-3_1701520833231.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Julia Roberts shared her enduring love of Manchester United on the Graham Norton Show<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/12\/78500901-12817503-image-a-8_1701520989808.jpg\" height=\"396\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In November 2016 the Pretty Woman actress took in a match at Old Trafford with her family<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have three children and when they were really little and started playing soccer they started watching it on TV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I didn&#8217;t ever realise how exciting it was to watch it on television. We just got so into it and somehow Manchester United just became our team, the Moder family team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We became sort of possessed.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roberts&#8217; words will only serve to further pierce the heart of one of her biggest fans &#8211; Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decorated head coach publicly lamented the fact that Roberts&#8217; last visit to Old Trafford came during Jose Mourinho&#8217;s stewardship when &#8216;we were better than United&#8217; &#8211; and had not stopped in at the Etihad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She went to visit Man United,&#8217; Guardiola said in March. &#8216;She didn&#8217;t come to see us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s why even if I win the Champions League it will not compare for the fact that Julia Roberts came to Manchester and didn&#8217;t come to see us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Even if I win the Champions League it will not compare to this disappointment I had.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/12\/78500899-12817503-image-a-9_1701520992463.jpg\" height=\"358\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola has been publicly disappointed about his &#8216;idol&#8217; following his side&#8217;s great rivals<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 treble-winner has previously referred to the Notting Hill protagonist &#8211; along with Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan &#8211; as his &#8216;idol&#8217; and branded himself a &#8216;failure&#8217; for being unable to tempt Roberts into crossing the city&#8217;s divide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Man United pounced on this admission in the aftermath of Guardiola&#8217;s comments, sharing a post on X (formerly Twitter) throwing back to Roberts&#8217; 2016 visit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In diplomatic style, Roberts congratulated Guardiola on winning the Champions League with Man City in June on Instagram with a post singling out the manager for praise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Congratulations @pepteam for leading your team to be UCL champions&#8217;, Roberts captioned a picture of Guardiola with the storied trophy, notably neither tagging nor naming her team&#8217;s loathed rivals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12817503\/Julia-Roberts-POSSESSED-Man-United-fan-Pep-Guardiola.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Julia Roberts confesses that she felt &#8216;POSSESSED&#8217; 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