Why did you start to support Manchester United?

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I know there are a lot of ABU and WUM comments going around, so here's a chance we all can say why and how it came to be that we're supporting Manchester United. It can a reason as simple as "family traditions" or as complicated as "my mother is married to so and so on the board of United".

I'll go first:

My first game at the stadium was in Highbury, Arsenal beat United 2-1 and took the championship. My brother (who supported Arsenal) gloated like an animal and since then i developed my hate for them and prayed that one day United would beat the shit out of them.

Since then i supported United and truth to be told, i didn't have to wait long before we took the first crown in 26 years. And it was worth the wait that we finished above them 3 times in a row very recently. :cool:
 
I know I supported United since 1980, because that was the year I saw Ipswich hit 6 past Bailey with him saving 2 penalties and one was even retaken...so I know I was a supporter since I was 9.

Can't remember the exact moment I became a fan, but it could have been the fact that United were quite often shown on Road to Wembley in the FA Cup and I just liked the style of play! Winning the err..was it 82? FA Cup vs Everton was kinda nice too. :D
 
Originally posted by Marcus:
<strong>Winning the err..was it 82? FA Cup vs Everton was kinda nice too. :D </strong><hr></blockquote>

Hmmmm.

83 - Brighton

85 - Everton
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I was born in Trafford and raised in Salford. My family have supported United for 5 generations.
 
Originally posted by RUnited:
<strong>My first game at the stadium was in Highbury, Arsenal beat United 2-1 and took the championship. My brother (who supported Arsenal) gloated like an animal and since then i developed my hate for them and prayed that one day United would beat the shit out of them.</strong><hr></blockquote>

We won the CWC then so i hope you took the piss out of him for that ;)
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Originally posted by Dans:
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Hmmmm.

83 - Brighton

85 - Everton</strong><hr></blockquote>

thanks a lot. i knew i was wrong.

:p
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Actually I have been hunting glory since 79. It was a fecking long wait I can tell you.
 
Back in about 1987 or so, I was watching this game that was on TV when i was 7ish. My dad used to piss me off because he always went for the team opposite to me which was frustrating for a 7yo, anywayz this game was on and i asked dad who he was up for and he said "the team in white" I liked the team wearing the red and finally i could go for the team opposite to him, that team was Manchester United. I fell in love with the game and the team at the same time!
 
Bryan Robson - After he signed for us. I saw him play and just thought he was everything I wanted to be. The team were pretty poor back then but it didn't matter bcos we always played good football.....soon fell in luuuurrrrrvvvvv with the club.

I think one thing that you have to appreciate about the club, fans and players (most of them) is that they never give up hope and I think that's something we should be proud of. :)
 
I first saw United play in 1970, away at Stoke City.....Best, Charlton, Law...Etc.( I was born a Red)
 
I was born in Madrid, three streets away from the Bernabeu stadium, and first shirt I had was a real one.

However, my mother in her eternal wisdom, decided to marry an englishman and took me to England when I was seven. My step-father grew up in Manchester, during the 60's and it didn't take long for him to indoctrinate me on why United are simply the most glamorous and glorious team to support.

First match I remember: 1985 FA Cup final (but have seen '77, '79, and '83 finals hundreds of times on video

First United Hero: No question - Bryan Robson
 
Desde luego si no gana el Manchester, prefiero que gane el equipo blanco, especialmente cuando juegan contra los polacos hijos de puta!!!!
 
supported them since i can remember following football, most of my family were united fans (although my brother grew up to be a scouser, havent spoke to him in years)

started going with my mates in the 80s been going ever since

scoreboard, stretford end, united road, e stand seats (jump in the stret) k stand, stretford paddock (jump in the stret)

those were days!
 
Lostock Primary Stretford 1963. A kid is waiving a broadsheet newspaper (probably the Guardian) before school on Monday . Front page says "Utd Win the Cup". Parents got me the red shirt and solid red socks (I'd been instructed by my classmates that socks with red and white hoops wouldn't do, they were obsolete). So I think I first became a gloryhunter right then.
 
Originally posted by Champion7:
<strong>Desde luego si no gana el Manchester, prefiero que gane el equipo blanco, especialmente cuando juegan contra los polacos hijos de puta!!!!</strong><hr></blockquote>

Mi mujer es de Valencia, es la única camiseta blanca que me gusta. ;)
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Grandad bought me a football shirt in the very early 70`s didn`t know what team it was until an uncle told me it was a United shirt, supported them ever since.
Hence my logo 1974
 
Originally posted by WeasteDevil:
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Mi mujer es de Valencia, es la única camiseta blanca que me gusta. ;) </strong><hr></blockquote>


Qué buen gusto! Las mujeres de Valencia son las que más me gustan. También me gusta el Valencia, pero suelen acojonarse cuando juegan contra el "Florenteam"
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My first footie memory is playing the game in the school playground. I lived in St Helens, a rugby town, so I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to pick it up. I would have been about 5, 1963. One of the big lads ‘supervising’ the game was my older brother, he put me straight, but I still liked to take the throw ins. There was a goal painted on the wall at one end of the yard, jumpers for goalposts at the other. I loved the game, started to watch it on (black & white) TV and of all the players and teams around then it was United for me because of the panache with which they played football. I think I was also aware of Munich which happened only a few days after I was born but that might just be my imagination. The romantic in me thinks I was born to be a Red. I didn’t know then that it was to become a lifelong obsession. When I was about 11 or 12 me and my mates started making regular trips to Manchester to visit Old Trafford and support the team and that’s continued through thick and thin. I live in Sale now so it’s a bit easier to get to OT and my kids are continuing the tradition.
 
Originally posted by Champion7:
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Qué buen gusto! Las mujeres de Valencia son las que más me gustan. También me gusta el Valencia, pero suelen acojonarse cuando juegan contra el "Florenteam"</strong><hr></blockquote>

¡Es verdad! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laugh Out Loud]" />
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Listening in awe to the radio commentary of the FAC semi final against Birmingham in 1957. Everything was magical about Manchester United in those days. Not hard to capture a young lad's imagination.
 
Supported them since c. 1970
Thanks to my brother, who then lost nearly
all interest in footie. Lucky he did'nt like
Leeds!
 
my dad supported United since Munich.
For me it started in the late 1970's. My oldest footy memory is reading in the paper that Jimmy Greenhoff scored against the scousers in the FAC SF. Unfortunately, watching the first game live on TV was in 1983, against Arsenal in the FAC SF (2:1, Whiteside and Robson).
It was 1990 when I made my pilgrimage to OT, and followed United for 3 months home and away including that 6-2 at Highbury.
Went to ~20 games, and the only defeat was at home to Chelsea, so I guess we could win the league again if I get a season ticket...

;)
 
1990. My step-Dad is a United fan and used to live in Manchester (before he moved in with us).

I was never that interested in football until I was about 7/8, I played, but I didn't really follow a team. Andrew bullied me into United. Cheers :D
 
1983 when Ray Wilkins scored from about 30 yards and then went off on that run to celebrate
 
My Uncle supported Arsenal and I asked him who they were playing, it was 77 and I was 4 and from what I remember we beat them 2-1. I didnt like my uncle so I asked him every week about the results but from the final in 79 I started really supporting. I was the only kid on our road with the white away jersey with the black stripes down one side. I used to think I was Steve Coppell :D
 
Can't remember exactly when I started supporting United. It was around 75-76 though coz i can remember the 76 final. My first shirt was the 77 away shirt with no.7 on the back. I was a big Coppell and Macari fan. First game was Newcastle away, can't remember the year but it was 1-1 and freezing as fcuk.
 
Quite simply, my grandad my grandad you to always send me Utd badges/shir'ts down when i was a kid, when we visited him on holiday times' i was having a kick about with the local lads & when a shot went 300ft over the bar...it was kicked back to us playing by none other than Sparky !! When it was explained who he was, i was 'hooked'!!! sad but a very true story!!
 
After WC 1978, we were some kids that played football every day, and everyone was Ricardo Villa.
My father, who had a liking for Spurs, told me that there was going to be a football match on norwegian telly that saturday afternoon, and that there was going to be two Argentinians in one of the teams.(Ardilles and ...who?) Naturally, I sat down to watch the game and wanted some Argentinian magic, but it turned out completely different than I expected. This other team in red beat them good; 3-1, and I asked my dad who that was. He smiled and said: " THAT was Manchester United."
Red ever since. Does enyone remember what season that was ? Ca 78-80 somewhere...
 
Norman Whiteside kicking lumps out of scouse mcmahon.....mid eighties.......beautiful
 
Originally posted by Marcus:
<strong>United were quite often shown on Road to Wembley in the FA Cup </strong><hr></blockquote>

I can still remember that... ;)
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