: Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:43 pm  

OK serious question to football fans, Does sitting in the Sky bar or at home with your Man Utd shirt on shouting at the screen make you a true supporter?
I only support Leigh Centurions and go as often as i can and if there was a struggle for tickets(as if) as there is in football i would do my utmost to get one, i class this as supporting my team.

: Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:54 pm  

Fanatic Frank wrote:

Man Utd could win every trophy for the next 20 years and still they wont be as famous as the mighty Liverpool. You live in our shadow

I think its the other way around (as a neutral)

: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:04 pm  

Fanatic Frank wrote:

Man Utd could win every trophy for the next 20 years and still they wont be as famous as the mighty Liverpool. You live in our shadow

I would say its the other way around, certainly across the world most Premiership clubs are big news in the sports pages/TV (note for Leyther Matt, I said most, Horwich FC don't appear in many peoples thoughts in Malaysia, Seoul or even Farnworth ).

Man Utd ,Real Madrid , Barcelona , Bury (I wish ) and AC/Inter Milan seem very popular "supported" teams.
Liverpool , Arsenal, Chelsea , Celtic and Bayern Munich with a few other notable names in Europe appear in a 2nd tier of "support".

Most popular top.....
Brazil.

: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:08 pm  

Lemon wrote:

OK serious question to football fans, Does sitting in the Sky bar or at home with your Man Utd shirt on shouting at the screen make you a true supporter?
I only support Leigh Centurions and go as often as i can and if there was a struggle for tickets(as if) as there is in football i would do my utmost to get one, i class this as supporting my team.

Football clus do get a hell of alot of money from TV company deals,someone has to pay it.

: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:08 pm  

Lemon wrote:

I am not really a football fan but i would agree with this, and i think Utd fans know it and it drives them crazy.

Hardly!

United are probably one of the biggest names in football if not the biggest, my girlfriend was driving accross america years ago with the family and in the middle of no-where they got asked where they were from, when they answered Manchester the yank replied hey manchester united!

Liverpool may have won more European cups and league titles (for now ) but United are certainly more well known world wide!

: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:30 pm  

Work colleague of mine was in NY a few weeks back, and was talking to American over there and Manchester was mentioned and he got the question City or United ? He was buzzing . Not "Oh Manchester United" as it was not long back. Not a single major trophy won and we are famous
Utd are more famous than Red Scousers, but success isn't the main reason because it was the same in 80's when Red Scousers where top dog and Man U was just mediocre signing Terry Gibson type players

: Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:24 am  

Unfortunately when I was out in Morocco when telling people I came from a town near Manchester I always got the reply " aahhh Manchester United" to which I always replied " who are they" and my son would reply "exactly". This always made us titter and then we would explain that there was only one team in Manchester which was City. Mohammedia soon got to know about Man City. I do hope the City shirt, Leigh Centurions shirt and baseball cap are still hanging up in Monicas Bar.

: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:35 am  

CITYS GOIN DOWN WITH A BILLION IN THE BANK, A BILLION IN THE BANK, A BILLION IN THE BANK!!!

There's only 1 european trophy & its in our trophy cabinet!!!

UTD UTD UTD!!!!

: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:36 am  

JENKY wrote:

I would say its the other way around, certainly across the world most Premiership clubs are big news in the sports pages/TV (note for Leyther Matt, I said most, Horwich FC don't appear in many peoples thoughts in Malaysia, Seoul or even Farnworth ).

Apart from BWFC's large contingent of Japanese season ticket holders, post-Nakata, you mean?

: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:49 am  

Cant believe you Utd fans are getting drawn into an argument with dumb bin dippers