Why do people support Manchester United

Ask a man u fan, not from Manchester ... Why?

They always immediately go on the defensive  ''Oh my dad/uncle etc took me when I was a kid.''

All this means is :- your dad/uncle is a w@nker as well

its called 'reflected glory'.

if you supported man utd 5 years ago then shirley you stick with them now they are rubbish to prove
you were not a glory hunter but loved the colour of the strip/rooneys barnet/ or that you are part
of one of the largest supporters clubs in vietnam and the 20 dongs you pay your mobile phone company
to see the goals is a bargain

It all started in 1958 after Munich.

They had huge support even in the old second division.

all about the sky tv revolution innit,in the 80`s they were playing in front of 30,000 and only filled o.t for big cup games,lot of sheeple in this country who latched on to sky`s "we invented football in 1992" and chose man utd,been lots of times to the theatre of merchandise following the once mighty rovers and was nauseated by the amount of coaches from cornwall,essex and kent,not to mention thousands of oriental folk i think they bus them in with discounted ticket offers for groups

"in the 80`s they were playing in front of 30,000 "

Complete bollox how old are you 13 ??

sparrow is correct - 'It all started in 1958 after Munich'... and the subsequent Busby Babes.

tommo1000 - is also correct - 'all about the sky tv revolution innit ... lot of sheeple in this country who latched on to sky`s "we invented football in 1992" and chose man utd.'
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Similarly with Liverpool, and the Shankley factor/legacy.

Driving back along the East Lancs road, out of Liverpool, after an away  match - was amazed at the number of coaches from South Wales that we passed.

no I actually following football in the 80`s and I can tell you utd were lucky to get that amount for a league game,even arsenal,spurs,liverpool and everton were barely getting that total as well,the thought if getting your head kicked or worse,put a lot of people off,as you`re obviously a sky fanboy,football wasn't the game you know today,you went to a match and got herded into a penned terrace like a cow with the threat of lunatic away fans infiltrating the home end,it was cheaper though and the atmosphere was better,no middle class c***s at the matches in those days

Manchester United were getting 50 55 thousand in the late seventies we have had the highest average attendances for about 40 years bar one or two years.

Manchester is red by the way I should know I live there

Glory hunters, it's like with Liverpool, they accrued a fairly big fan base when they were clearing up the trophies and 26 years later people still can't let go and think of them as a big club, Sky are all over them and give them more air time than most, lots of EX Liverpool players now pundits too.

It's simple, you dominate for a fairly long period, you get a load of glory hunters especially in areas where there is no local big team or in London's case which is an exception, because there are so many clubs, supporting Liverpool or United as so many people do, you don't really stand out like a sore thumb if you start supporting them like you would do if you were from Leeds or Newcastle or Sheffield.

So many cockneys support United they don't even need fans from Manchester to fill the stadium, only have to look at how busy the M1 gets after a match.

Op do you expect these united fans to change and support someone else ?

from manchester and support united

Manchester United are the biggest club in England , 1st English team to win the European cup , 20 times champions of England, joint 12 times fa cup holders

So much rubbish and jealousy spoken about United

tis true,in blackburns`s short period of dominance we went from an average crowds of 9,000 to 25 thousand in 5 years!!!,used to **** me off cos plastic fans would come in the pub wearing blue and white halfs when a couple of years before they`de have been supporting anyone apart from blackburn

The received media representation of a football supporter is someone who was taken to their local ground at the age of 10 and becomes a lifelong fan of that club
Utter sloblocks
A survey was done about a few years back, reported in the book Soccernomics.
It said that the make up of a football audience in england was about one third longterm supporters, one third people who were regulars for around a year and one third were in attendance just a handful of occasions that season.
There is so much football now you can be a fan of a number of clubs
Lots of us are admirers of Barca or Madrid.
No doubt we would be counted in the worldwide fanbases by those superclubs.
If, heaven forfend, I put a punt on Man U to win the cup final does that make me a Man Utd supporter?
There are a lot of supporters of liv and Man U in particular around the country
Roy Keane said they were pathetic people with nothing going on in their lives, so they had to project their personality onto the
success of a sports club.
The antagonism they attract I think is because the media would constantly claim the brilliance of Man utd and lfc, for that matter, when they were dominant.
Even though most of us could see they would win an awful lot of those matches playing carp with assistance from the ref.
Fluck em

more nonsense from the lartarps still waiting 50 years for Tottinghams next title

anxious


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Manchester United are the biggest club in England , 1st English team to win the European cup , 20 times champions of England, joint 12 times fa cup holders

without looking on google,can you name the last the last 5 utd managers before the ref bribing **** ferguson

dammit
where did you spring from anxious?
i thought i might get away with this one!!
and fyi
i fear another 50 years before tottenhams next title
getting ready to put my rotting corpse in cryogenic storage.
With instructions only to revive on that unlikely occurrence

Atkinson , sexton , Docherty , o Farrell , mcguiness

thommo   Fergie offered his advice to referees that's all

thommo   Fergie offered his advice to referees that's all Excited

think he offered more than advise to howard webb,fergie used to get a tax rebate from the all brown envelopes he bought

that fecker very rarely helped us ,another ABU myth

Found this ...

Manchester United Average Home Attendances        
           
Year           League           Attendance       
      #     Level     Pos     Average    

2016          1     5     75.286     1     
2015          1     4     75.335     1           
2014          1     7     75.207     1    
2013             1     1     75.530     1    
2012          1     2     75.387     1    
2011          1     1     75.109     1             
2010         1     2     74.864     1    
2009          1     1     75.304     1         
2007          1     1     75.826     1    
2006          1     2     68.765     1        
2005          1     3     67.748     1    
2004          1     3     67.641     1         
2003          1     1     67.602     1    
2002          1     3     67.558     1    
2001         1     1     67.490     1    
2000          1     1     58.014     1    
1999          1     1     55.188     1
1998          1     2     55.168     1        
1997         1     1     55.081     1    
1996             1     1     41.700     1
1995          1     2     43.681     1   
1994          1     1     44.244     1    
1993           1     1     35.152     2    
1992          1     2     44.984     1    
1991          1     6     43.218     1    
1990          1     13     39.077     1                     
1989          1     11     36.488     2                
1988         1     2     39.152     2                
1987          1     11     50.594     1           
1986         1     4     46.321     1    
1985          1     4     42.881     1            
1984          1     4     42.534     1    
1983          1     3     41.695     1    
1982          1     3     44.571     1                
1981          1     8     45.071     1    
1980          1     2     51.608     1                
1979          1     9     46.430     1           
1978          1     10     51.860     1    
1977          1     6     53.710     1    
1976          1     3     54.750     1                
1975          2     23     48.389     1           
1974          1     21     42.712     1           
1973          1     18     48.623     1           
1972          1     8     45.999     2                
1971          1     8     43.945     2           
1970          1     8     49.862     1                
1969          1     11     51.169     1    
1968          1     2     57.552     1         
1967          1     1     53.854     1               
1966          1     4     38.769     2    
1965         1     1     46.521     1    
1964          1     2     44.125     3    
1963          1     19     40.329     5                 
1962          1     15     33.491     5                      
1961         1     7     37.888     3           
1960          1     7     47.288     2                      
1959          1     2     53.258     1                      
1958          1     9     46.073     1
1957         1     1     45.481     1             
1956         1     1     39.254     3                      
1955          1     5     36.911     7                      
1954          1     4     36.887     9                      
1953          1     8     37.371     9                      
1952          1     1     42.916     4                      
1951          1     2     39.008     9                      
1950          1     4     43.282     8                      
1949          1     2     48.808     3                      
1948          1     2     54.890     3                 
1947          1     2     43.845     4                      
1946                                                    
1939          1     14     30.365     8                      
1938          2     24     26.633     9                      
1937          1     21     32.332     5                      
1936          2     23     26.070     10                      
1935          2     27     22.871     11                      
1934          2     42     18.338     16                      
1933          2     28     20.149     12                      
1932          2     34     13.011     30                      
1931          1     22     11.685     33                      
1930          1     17     18.599     19                      
1929          1     12     23.659     12                      
1928          1     18     25.555     8                      
1927          1     15     26.138     9                      
1926          1     9     27.647     6                      
1925          2     24     27.995     5                      
1924          2     36     21.125     14                      
1923          2     26     22.955     12                      
1922          1     22     28.510     9                      
1921          1     13     35.525     6                      
1920          1     12     26.540     9                      
1915          1     18     11.950     15                      
1914          1     14     25.515     4                      
1913          1     4     23.610     6                      
1912          1     13     19.040     8                      
1911          1     1     24.190     4                      
1910          1     5     18.740     8                      
1909          1     13     18.150     8                     
1908          1     1     22.315     4                      
1907          1     8     20.695     4                     
1906          2     22     14.560     8                      
1905          2     21     15.205     6                       
1904          2     21     17.775     4                      
1903          2     23     11.265     10                      
1902          2     33     4.530     24                       
1901          2     28     5.480     23                      
1900          2     22     6.175     1

that fecker very rarely helped us ,another ABU myth

howard webb was so up fergie`s chuff he had a squad number

1989 was a good year..
cor blimey
if only edwards would have done the decent thing and shown fergus the red card there and then..

Interesting DIP in Attendances - between 1980 and 1993 - the latter year coinciding with the start of Sky Tv

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1993           1     1     35.152     2   
1992          1     2     44.984     1   
1991          1     6     43.218     1   
1990          1     13     39.077     1                     
1989          1     11     36.488     2               
1988         1     2     39.152     2               
1987          1     11     50.594     1           
1986         1     4     46.321     1   
1985          1     4     42.881     1           
1984          1     4     42.534     1   
1983          1     3     41.695     1   
1982          1     3     44.571     1               
1981          1     8     45.071     1

World cup winning yr and the one after brought some fans in....

I am not a big football fan but I found out about the EPL in 2003 and since then, God knows why, MU is the club I hate. I don't have any fav club. I don't like any football club. But I do hate one and that is MU.

Typical profile of an ABU - why do hate Manchester United - answer-  I have no idea

I think utd messed up when they turned down Michael knighton`s takeover bid

Was he the fat lad with the Utd Shirt doing keepy uppies being introduced to the fans

yes,he was a multi millionare about to take utd to the next level

Indeed he was - and in front of the Stretford end, aswell.

Knighton ended up buying Carlisle UTD, instead.

Close escape that one

What an utter laughing stock they were in the 80s
Only thing was, at the time, there was a feeling that someone would get it right one day
As proved to be the case
Now, not so sure
Whisper it, if Mourinho flops..
...they could be cooked for another 25 yrs

detraveller 19 Jun 16 20:27
 
I am not a big football fan but I found out about the EPL in 2003 and since then, God knows why, MU is the club I hate. I don't have any fav club. I don't like any football club. But I do hate one and that is MU.
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anxious 19 Jun 16 20:30 

Typical profile of an ABU - why do hate Manchester United - answer-  I have no idea
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As tommo1000 has already intimated - It is SKY - and the bloody BBC, aswell - who 'ram Man Utd down the viewers throat' at EVERY opportunity -

- no matter how slight.... as if, in some misplaced arrogant assumption, EVERYBODY who watches television are avid Man Utd fans - and the whole world hinges on anything and everything that happens at the Trafford Park shunting sidings.

Indeed onlooker
I can remember the itv days of the late 80s early 90s
One live game a week
sunday afternoon
liverpool, arsenal, villa in a title race
But everybl00dy week we would have elton welsby from old trafford covering fergus and man utd latest relegation clash

I fecking hated Elton welsby,what a c**t,a patronising one as well!!

Clubs having a global fanbase is to be expected, the spread of information and the easing of access to content the key.  Football supporting has always been driven by social interactions of fans, once upon a time you could only really access football on a local level with hardly any tv coverage so naturally football to you was a way of seeing your friends and catching up with people, people barely had phones nevermind facebook. 

Once you start to plaster a side all over the national printed media or on TV, people local to you now have another side they can talk about, the social side of the game can move away from the terrace and into the pub. 

Whenever football media coverage goes through a boom period, whoever the top sides of the day are pick up support wherever the content is being consumed.  In the 60's and 70's that was East Anglia or Cornwall for the first time in peoples homes and in the 90's it was the whole world.

Now with the internet its a free for all, if I wanted to call myself an AC Milan fan I could sit and watch every game of theirs live, join online supporters groups and otherwise interact with my fellow fans and rivals as much as I want.  I'd never need to leave the couch and be satisfied as a football fan.

Liverpool in the 80s and then United in the 90s were two sides that were on top during a boom period, it only makes sense that people will be drawn to clubs their friends are talking about in school, so they gained a huge number of new fans.

Its the way it goes with all media, you wouldnt expect somebody to only support their local bands if theyre all sh1t or go see local plays when theres a hollywood superhero film online they can download.  Not only is the content your getting of a higher quality but its way easier to talk to people on a youtube comment thread or football forum than it is to seek out people in the real world to share your thoughts.

If anything its up to other clubs to step up and work harder, just because Sky TV is pushing the narrative that the PL is the only game in town and nothing else it matters it doesnt mean they dont have access to their own online resources.  Where is there a football club streaming all of their reserve matches for free on youtube for example?  I know all the clubs have their own online media but its all behind a paywall to fleece supporters, its up to the smaller clubs to find a way to compete instead of demanding locals show up en masse to keep them afloat.

Organizations like sky , itv  are only interested in money and profit so they will try to capture biggest audience for advertisers etc

Thats fair enough
What we can do without is all this rubbish about the theatre of dreams and the United Way
as if there was some mythic purity of their football
They pay the highest wages, they buy the best players
Said it before and i will say it again
THere was no difference between the standard of football played by Man U under Fergus and chelsea with Jose
An opinion backed up by the appointment of Jose for the coming season
If you want beautiful football in england then the only place to go in the epl is the Emirates..

The Busby babes , George best , bobby Charlton , Denis Law , Class of 92 ,
 
Arsenal tippy tappy rubbish , They had their best team petit , viera , adams and the offside back 5 with bergamp / henry

If you look at Arsenals midfield,
Cazorla, Ramsey, Wilshere, Ozil...
These are all technical footballers of the highest quality
You may scoff but Ramsey was the best player on the park in Lens the other day
I say this because he demanded the ball and kept it playing against a superior team in England who surrounded him at every turn.
Most other teams in the EPL are lucky to have one player like them
Arsenal 4
Spurs have only Eriksson, how we could have done with some of Arsenal's midfield control at the tail end of last season
Over the past decade Man U have had one
Carrick
Fergus success was predicated on the best forwards money could buy
Rooney, CR7, Berbatov, RvP
The EPL money now means every team has an international class forward line
so that method will not work unless Man U raid the upper echelons of La Liga
I hope they do
There is a reason why arsenal have been in the ucl for a gazillion years
Wengers faith in good possession football

paul scholes , david beckham , roy keane , ryan giggs , kanchelskis , cantona , United had pace , power , skill and a never say die attitude that's why they won everything lartaps

http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/manu.htm

As you can see the average in the 80s was in the 40ks..
Some of the lower years in the 90s were due to new stands being constructed and conversion to all seater

Not forgetting schmecichel, rio , vidic , denis Irwin , Van der sar ,

Arsenal best team was power , pace and skill to win in England that is what you need , look at city even kcompany , yaya , aguero , silva .

City bought well to begin with didnt they.
Hungry players wanting to win
NOt so clever now
The Invincibles finished top of a 3 team mini league
Such as what you see in La Liga now.
Fergus used to finish top of a 1 team league
in fact 2nd on some occasions when Wenger saw him off
The EPL now is not a cartel for the ucl teams
Liverpool and Everton have no european football next year
Nor do Chelsea
As a spurs fan i can see nothng but trouble in our champions league campaign this year
The one constant is that Arsenal will get into the top 4 because of the quality of their play.
Year in year out
On about 60m a year less on wages what Man U spend
Wenger is truly a genius, the father of the EPL, much more than Fergus who wanted it to be a springboard for his ego.

"Can any one please explain why they support this team"
None so blind as those that cannot see ...

Utd had a surge of new fans after Munich decimated most of their team. Thats entirely understandable. But modern fans support a team who are successful. They are 'top' supporters.

Man Utd have been the most successful side in recent years, hence 'support' from all over the country.

One time, the only Chelsea shirts were to be seen in South London. Now they seem more commonplace everywhere. Wonder why that is?

But don't us true English always support the underdogs.
Seems that fine principle no longer applies in this day and age,sadly.

Rockinron,I'm not blind and I still can't what you can see.
Does this mean that it is you that is blind,not me ?

MUFC FOREVER

Apparently all started in the 50s when they had plane crash that killed most their team.
Wolves were the top team at the time and had been for years but Man Utd were always popular, but their fan base spread after this.

Ask the Irish, most over 60's Irish footy fans will probably say they followed Wolves those days, but anyone under 60 probably followed Man Utd

There's a bloke over the road from me who wears Man Utd shirts all the time.
Yer mate. get a life, were 80 miles away and you never see them play.
It is farsical really.

Excellent haul of seething fish.

Im not sure why united fans get so much stick for this

How many west ham fans live in the east end? How many chelsea fans live in kensington and chelsea?

Lets be honest not many

Man united have had the biggest support in manchester every year since the 1930s and mostly, the best support in england too, regardless of if the teams winning or not

I go watching united because its addictive, been going since the late 80s id find it easier to quit smoking tbh, its not easy, success on the pitch is pretty much irrelevant to me, i dont get the same high doing anything else