Soccer rivalries are taken very seriously in Europe. They make Red Sox/Yankees or Lakers/Celtics look like an elementary school playground spat.

So when a Manchester United fan marries into a Manchester City family, he must deliver an emotional and heartfelt toast to his new kin in hopes of earning acceptance.

Enter this guy. He begins by saying that it has been a difficult year and that he’s lost someone close, someone that was a constant in his life…

[h/t @RyanKaltenbach]