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it's official - manchester is red
linked to me by redandwhiteandblack the other week
quite an interesting insight. a lot of the city of manchester is blue but then most of the metropolitan area is red, which is why berties (and other sad ABU @#%&!s who are geographically inept) claim that manchester is blue. end of the day though, what is manchester really? that small sliver of land between tameside and salford, or the sprawling metropolis that links cheshire with lancashire and has produced so much over the years? i wonder if these same people claim that arsenal, spurs, chelsea, etc aren't london teams, because none of them play in the city of london one thing though, m40 is blue? moston, miles platting, newton heath etc are, along with salford, united's hotbed. since when was there more berties than reds round those parts? strange. it'd be good to have another survey like this, i reckon the number of divs in certain parts will have increased what with all them "proper fans" coming out of the woodwork now they're a decent side |
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although i'd agree that numbers will have changed over the years, citeh having more part time fans coming out of the woodwork, and a number of our support going to fc |
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For me the most convincing proof is my own experience IU'd say its 70 30 in favour of United.
But if anyone wanted research to support it. Check out the attendances since 1945 - City haven't beaten us once even when we were in the old second division over a season, And certainly in the 40s 50s 60s and 70s there wasn't much support from all over the country to watch United. Today we have a vast support from all over the country and world due to our success but that wouldn't reduce United's home support! |
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i truly believe they have got a fair few have only started attending recently.. Seeing more and more of them. dirty @#%&!s. They all still look like Divs though, easily spotted and avoided. |
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i always hear local accents whenever i go to OT though, we still have a very very strong local following, especially in places like salford, trafford, streford, urmston, moston, whitefield, radcliffe, miles platting, collyhurst, etc etc etc |
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i still see more reds though when i'm in manchester, so it's all good |
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i live in leeds for uni but i'm from salford originally, am i one of these 3 exceptions? |
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I think it hurts the eye and is alot easier to spot blues in public places, because they all seem to wear the club shop tat.....
Had a boss at my old place, who looked like hea'd run through the club shop covered in Loctite he was about 60 though, the bobble hat, tracksuit, flag in the car.... i was expecting him to turn up with shin pads on one morning when we got knocked out by Bayern.. He was over the moon.. about us....In Europe.. |
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Bolton and Stockport have their own teams. |
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I was in Manchester on a Monday night a few months back when the Divs were playing the wall-pushers...massive game etc ..I was drinking around town town from 2pm till midnight....iin several different places...didn't see more than a couple of Taches and £#%&! all after the game
bit different when United are at home, you can't move for Reds |
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i bet if they ever win the premier league first thing they'll say is "the rags aren't top of the league, get the £#%&! in!" they really don't have the right mentality to be up there with barca, real, inter, milan, bayern, etc. i know all these teams have their rivals but they don't have that petty small time mentality that city have, where their rivals losing to another team is as big of a deal as a win to them. the other night when bowyer scored a bertie's status was "GET THE £#%&! IN BOWYER!", i simply commented "ah, all the times you say 'city til i die' and 'come on you blues' you're actually referring to birmingham. i thought you were a man city fan, my bad" |
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