Ali Benarbia on United and City

Originally posted by Gillespie:
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I agree.MUFC is a global phenomenon and the result of a brilliant marketing strategy.In fact,they could play anywhere....and still command such support....couldn't they ??</strong><hr></blockquote>

Only in certain parts of the world. Those places that speak English generally.
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Originally posted by Gillespie:
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Probably right......though to be fair my comments were slightly tongue in cheek......


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One last word on the subject...from me any way...I was at Manchester University from 1972-1975.
I like many students then,went to City one week and Man Utd the next (actually ,my first match at Man Utd was a league game against Spurs.....as a Gooner,I was hoping you would stuff them...you lost 4-0 with Martin Peters scoring all 4 goals!)

To be honest,my recollection in those days was that there were more Man Utd fans than City fans in Manchester ,despite City being ,then, a better team (they had recently won the old first division).

Man Utd then were a poor ageing side...but still seemed to get better home attendances.

Willy Morgan wasn't a bad player though......and Ian Storey Moore ?Any of you guys remember them ??
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Originally posted by cd:
<strong>Benarbia is absolutely confused in what he is saying. I think he means that the majority of city supporters are from Manchester, whereas the majority of Utd. supporters are not from Manchester, but that is only cos utd have millions more supporters.</strong><hr></blockquote>

United fans outnumber City fans 2-1 in Manchester, 20-1 in the rest of England and 2,000-1 in the rest of the world. Too many concentrate on the last statistic and ignore the first.

I would be shocked if City fans outnumbered us in Manchester. Rightly or wrongly success attracts supporters. I met my firtst Arsenal fan about five years ago, now I know about a dozen lifelong Arsenal fans.

We have been amazingly successful over the past ten years, City have won nothing since the League Cup in 1976. If we are attracting new fans in Malaysia, Australia and Outer Mongolia surely we are attracting fans in Manchester.
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Originally posted by michael owen's mum:
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isn't it true that city's ground is actually in manchester though whereas manyoo's is in trafford?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Old Trafford is in the borough of Trafford, yes you are correct...

But the borough of Trafford is in MANCHESTER...

I bet the Siddy taunts about this stop the minute they move to the borough of Tameside...

I bet the New York Yankees (our commercial partners) never get this because they're from the Bronx, (it is after all one of the five boroughs of New York)..

Or The New York Giants who don't even play in the same state as New York...
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ITA with Martin Henry. Trafford Borough may not be in Manchester City Centre but it is still classed as Greater Manchester, as do all the suburbs surrounding the city centre.

If as the previous poster suggested that Old Trafford is not Manchester, how dare they call themselves Manchester United? They should be called Trafford United ;)
 
Originally posted by Kogepan:
<strong>ITA with Martin Henry. Trafford Borough may not be in Manchester City Centre but it is still classed as Greater Manchester, as do all the suburbs surrounding the city centre.

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its only just outside the top of deansgate (city centre)
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Now c'mon lets look at the map below. Manchester is in the middle, Greater Manchester is the whole map. So let's look closer to see is Trafford in Manchester, the answer is "no". End of story.

Not that it matters, but you are wrong

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So let's look closer to see is Trafford in Manchester, the answer is "no". End of story. <hr></blockquote>

Old Trafford is in Greater Manchester. It has a Manchester postcode. Surely that's all that is relevant.

And for what it's worth, I walk down Oxford Road past Rusholme every day and I haven't seen a single Citeh shirt so far, except on match day, which really surprised me since Maine Road is so close by. Don't blame them though for hibernating for the rest of the time - supporting Citeh isn't kind of thing you'd want to admit to in public is it?! :)
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