Are we the New Man utd?

elroberto said:
I think it's our popularity that irritates other fans them most. Even Liverpool at their most succesful period didn't have United's lustre and that's left their fans bitter. I quite enjoy the fact that we're hated because whatever happens at Chelsea at the moment, people are still paying more attention to Old Trafford.
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Popularity with megastore shoppers , tourists from the far east and day-tripping families you mean? ;)
 
Vandle said:
Popularity with megastore shoppers , tourists from the far east and day-tripping families you mean? ;)
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Thanks for proving my point. You can't 'not' talk about us can you! Wasn't there a premier league survey a few years ago on fans attending games and United had a higher percentage of people from their local area attending their home games than quite a few teams, including Liverpool, Man City and Arsenal. Even if you only including UK based fans, we'd still have a lot more than any other club in the country.
 
elroberto said:
Wasn't there a premier league survey a few years ago on fans attending games and United had a higher percentage of people from their local area attending their home games than quite a few teams, including Liverpool, Man City and Arsenal.
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I'm sad to say that its a myth that most Man Utd season ticket holders come from outside Manchester. Apparently its about 95% Manchurians that have season tickets. The team with the most season tickets out of the area is Liverpool.
 
elroberto said:
Thanks for proving my point. You can't 'not' talk about us can you! Wasn't there a premier league survey a few years ago on fans attending games and United had a higher percentage of people from their local area attending their home games than quite a few teams, including Liverpool, Man City and Arsenal. Even if you only including UK based fans, we'd still have a lot more than any other club in the country.
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There certainly was but it was won by Middlesbrough.

Isnt what your talking about what that one love thing is all about?
 
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Youstolemyname said:
Just out of curiosity, where do you get that fact from?
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It was a premier league survey from about 3 years ago.

Heres something similar:
And its Bradford that had the highest local support in this one.
http://www.le.ac.uk/footballresearch/fansurveys/pl01summary.html

http://www.mipc.mmu.ac.uk/docs/seasonticketreport.pdf

And here is a report saying that there are more United fans than City fans in manchester, although a higher percentage of city fans live in manchester even though there are less of them.
 
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atpbx said:
It was a premier league survey from about 3 years ago.

And here is a report saying that there are more United fans than City fans in manchester, although a higher percentage of city fans live in manchester even though there are less of them.
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Cheers for that. I downloaded the 2003/04 Premier League report and it shows very different findings:

Distances fans were born from stadium by Premier League Team


Distances fans now live from stadium by Premier League Team


<David Brent>Manchester United have the largest proportion of fans who live over 50 miles from their stadium and were born over 20 miles from their stadium- fact </David Brent>

:)
 
Youstolemyname said:
Just out of curiosity, where do you get that fact from?
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About 5 years ago somebody produced the Times or Guardian and chucked it into all the Man Utd haters at work and they had done a study on season tickets. None of the Utd haters would believe it because they're all convinced all Man Utd fans come from London.
 
fozzybear said:
No, it's not spelt wrong. It's just a totally different meaning.

Mancunian - a person from Manchester.

Manchurian - Of or relating to or characteristic of Manchuria or its people or their culture.
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Oh deary me.
Four years on the forums and first time I've had the grammar police on my back (or pedantic police).


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