Originally posted by VanNistlerater:
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You talking about Manchester or Greater Manchester? I'm certainly not from Manchester.
How big are Manchester United in your country?
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Originally posted by thumper:
<strong>Ireland
2) Yes they are a religion here
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Not really sure if that's a good thing
Originally posted by WeasteDevil:
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You talking about Manchester or Greater Manchester? I'm certainly not from Manchester.
Same for me, Salford and proud of it
MEXICO:
a).- Yes
b).- No, but to me it is
c).- Like 5 in my city, I dunno about other cities.
a).- Yes
b).- No, but to me it is
c).- Like 5 in my city, I dunno about other cities.
Looks like in all of these countries the older people like Liverpool(due to 3 decades of greatness),while the younger fans and bandwagon fans follow united(due to only 1 decade of success).
Australia
a)Pretty much everybody has heard of them (but most would only know that they're an English 'soccer' team).
b)Not even close. Football runs a distant fourth (at best) behind rugby league, aussie rules and cricket. Hell, even union and tennis are probably followed more.
c) Man Utd and Leeds (thanks to all the Aussies) are probably the most followed clubs. I have no idea of the numbers.
a)Pretty much everybody has heard of them (but most would only know that they're an English 'soccer' team).
b)Not even close. Football runs a distant fourth (at best) behind rugby league, aussie rules and cricket. Hell, even union and tennis are probably followed more.
c) Man Utd and Leeds (thanks to all the Aussies) are probably the most followed clubs. I have no idea of the numbers.
Originally posted by njred:
<strong>Looks like in all of these countries the older people like Liverpool(due to 3 decades of greatness),while the younger fans and bandwagon fans follow united(due to only 1 decade of success).</strong><hr></blockquote>
If you were to split along age boundaries it would generally be United fans up to the mid/late twenties with Pool fans as 30 somethings and then over 40s reverting to United fans.
When travelling if you say you are from Manchester the older generation generally greet you with a broad grin and "Bobby Charlton, George Best Yes" whilst the younger generation obviously idolise the current team. You generally don't see the scouse fan but he's the one that nicked your wallet while you were talking to the 2 generations of true Reds
although everyone in hong kong and their dog knows who united is, alot of people who i play football with enjoy la liga, or even serie a better then premier league...i'm not saying united isn't big here, but i don't think it's as big as it was mid-90's...i guess though any club that can pack a 40,000 capacity stadium to rafters full of people in red has got to be pretty popular...
Originally posted by Bury Red:
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When considering the statistics for Malaysia it would help greatly if you could divide the percentages to indicate how many orthodox United fans there are in the Pjaya mold, and how many radical fundamentalist's like Itchk who would have the team flogged and the back four executed every time we concede a corner
I would say about evens
Ok I am English but I will talk about the country where I am living Malta.
Malta was one of the first countries to accept football (before Italy) and a fact is that we have the eleventh oldest team in the world.
About Manutd Malta has the oldest supporters club in the world opened during the early 50s. Manutd’s religion is strong on this island and our relationship with the OT is not professional but personal ( from Busby, Charlton, Best, Law, Giggs, SAF, Becks and the Nevilles having personal friends here)
The most supported teams here are 1 Manutd 2 Juventus 3 Liverpool 4 Inter 5 Milan 6 Arsenal
Malta was one of the first countries to accept football (before Italy) and a fact is that we have the eleventh oldest team in the world.
About Manutd Malta has the oldest supporters club in the world opened during the early 50s. Manutd’s religion is strong on this island and our relationship with the OT is not professional but personal ( from Busby, Charlton, Best, Law, Giggs, SAF, Becks and the Nevilles having personal friends here)
The most supported teams here are 1 Manutd 2 Juventus 3 Liverpool 4 Inter 5 Milan 6 Arsenal
Ireland
I have a religious expereice everytime
Utd. win.
Breakdown would be 50% MUFC and 50% ABU.
I have a religious expereice everytime
Utd. win.
Breakdown would be 50% MUFC and 50% ABU.
Originally posted by spinoza:
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Me dad's pushing 50 and he supports United. So do all his old mates. mind you.
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Singapore - a small country with a population of 4 - 5 million.
i guess every football fans here would heard of man utd, and it is sort of like a religion for me personally to support man utd, though i cant say the same for the rest.
man utd fans and liverpool fans made up the majority of the football watching population in my country, while the rest prefer the arse, newcastle, spurs, and chelsea(?).
the ABU feeling in my country is also quite strong, ask any football fan who don't support man utd abt what he thinks abt us, i would almost certainly get a "i hate man utd" response. The media here is OBSESSED with man utd. Our every win is splashed in the papers, with the sheer amount of coverage unsurpassed by any other team's win, other than a man utd loss, where there would be an even BIGGER amount of coverage.
Seems like i am the second sporean to post in this thread after penny, (by the way, hi penny!) where are the rest? if any?
i guess every football fans here would heard of man utd, and it is sort of like a religion for me personally to support man utd, though i cant say the same for the rest.
man utd fans and liverpool fans made up the majority of the football watching population in my country, while the rest prefer the arse, newcastle, spurs, and chelsea(?).
the ABU feeling in my country is also quite strong, ask any football fan who don't support man utd abt what he thinks abt us, i would almost certainly get a "i hate man utd" response. The media here is OBSESSED with man utd. Our every win is splashed in the papers, with the sheer amount of coverage unsurpassed by any other team's win, other than a man utd loss, where there would be an even BIGGER amount of coverage.
Seems like i am the second sporean to post in this thread after penny, (by the way, hi penny!) where are the rest? if any?
Basle (switzerland)
a everyone
b we have only one religion (FC BASEL)
c i don't know any reds, we are red-blue!!!!
I will visit manchester in march to see the match vs FC Basel. Whats up in the city of manchester after the game (we have to stay the whole night without a hotel)
a everyone
b we have only one religion (FC BASEL)
c i don't know any reds, we are red-blue!!!!
I will visit manchester in march to see the match vs FC Basel. Whats up in the city of manchester after the game (we have to stay the whole night without a hotel)
Pacific NW, USA
Any American 'Soccer' fan has usually heard of United. Mainly because of our success in the last ten years and to a lesser extent, Becks. Generally speaking though, no, Yanks generally don't tend to look outside their own mainland when it comes to sports.
For me it is, but probably not even close for other people. There are die-hard United American fans who get to OT to see United though. A lot of Americans here do know their mustard though when it comes to football and some are pretty knowledgable. Soccer is a popular sport in this region. Alot of people have played all their life.
Hard to say. Here in Portland there are mainly United, Celtic, Chelsea, Rangers and Arsenal although I've probably met fans from virtually every club. It's quite fashionable for Yanks to jump on the ABU bandwagon, theu don't seem to know why they don't like United, they just don't.
I've noticed the local sports comentators here usually go between having little or no interest in soccer, and mocking it. Unless a local team does well (Portland won the Women's NCAA championship last month) or the National team do well in something.
With United and Celtic playing up the road in Seattle next summer I'd expect around 40,000-60,000 to show up for it.
Any American 'Soccer' fan has usually heard of United. Mainly because of our success in the last ten years and to a lesser extent, Becks. Generally speaking though, no, Yanks generally don't tend to look outside their own mainland when it comes to sports.
For me it is, but probably not even close for other people. There are die-hard United American fans who get to OT to see United though. A lot of Americans here do know their mustard though when it comes to football and some are pretty knowledgable. Soccer is a popular sport in this region. Alot of people have played all their life.
Hard to say. Here in Portland there are mainly United, Celtic, Chelsea, Rangers and Arsenal although I've probably met fans from virtually every club. It's quite fashionable for Yanks to jump on the ABU bandwagon, theu don't seem to know why they don't like United, they just don't.
I've noticed the local sports comentators here usually go between having little or no interest in soccer, and mocking it. Unless a local team does well (Portland won the Women's NCAA championship last month) or the National team do well in something.
With United and Celtic playing up the road in Seattle next summer I'd expect around 40,000-60,000 to show up for it.
The ABU movement in the USA can be attributed in large part to the association between United and the New York Yankees. The Yanks are by far the most popular baseball team in the US, but, as a result of their success, have a large number of enemies as well.
Originally posted by Dominant:
<strong>The media here is OBSESSED with man utd. Our every win is splashed in the papers, with the sheer amount of coverage unsurpassed by any other team's win, other than a man utd loss, where there would be an even BIGGER amount of coverage.
Seems like i am the second sporean to post in this thread after penny, (by the way, hi penny!) where are the rest? if any?
hi there,
Dominant say it very very right ... you bet what the newspaper would have its main story on everytime our team lost ( even it's just 0-1 ) .. You don't need to flip the paper and you know how's it gonna be like ... chances are some ABU journalist will be happy to just add any lousy stuff they could to the articles - just FOR all the ABU
Hiz penny. PM for ya.
Well I don't really know how many we are in Sweden. Most people are probably more interested in the Swedish league which is shite. But at the same time English football has always been popular in Sweden (well at least since they began showing live matches on TV some 40 years ago). And the Premier League is easily the most popular foreign league.
United and Liverpool are by far the two most popular teams, with Liverpool probably a little more popular.
United are a religion for few. And tho maybe ~60.000 would say they are United supporters I believe that most of them are not what would be considered as true supporters. The supporters club would definately have more members if it was Swedish and not Scandinavian. My estimate would be that we have some 5-10.000 true reds here.
United and Liverpool are by far the two most popular teams, with Liverpool probably a little more popular.
United are a religion for few. And tho maybe ~60.000 would say they are United supporters I believe that most of them are not what would be considered as true supporters. The supporters club would definately have more members if it was Swedish and not Scandinavian. My estimate would be that we have some 5-10.000 true reds here.
I agree with Jens here Frez, there's not many people here that know there's a 'connection' between the Yankees and United. This supposed connection happened two year ago and there's hardly been any mention of it since. The fact that the Yankees apparel is adidas and United are obviously with Nike means there's not going to be any products sitting on shelves alongside each other for a while. It's more of a consultancy agreement deal than a merchandise deal.
Well I am from Singapore and most of my mates are glory hunters and jumped to supporting the arse last season and I have been sticking with United for more than 10 years