Well over 1 billion people watch United games every single time. So yeh.....the 659million figure may not be 100% accurate but rest assured in terms of following United, be it on a radio in an African Village or in some super high tech South Korean apartment or sitting in the stretford end.... a massive number of people do it. Its nothing in football terms, in business terms is huge, massive. Numbers like this will have sponsors skinning their nans alive for a chance to sponsor United.
dude it was tongue in cheek, I heard this plastic/glory hunting bobbins for decades and so cliched and unfounded, but I couldn't give a monkeys who supports who or why, and who the local kids support is their choice, and can't see why supporting your local team builds character? .....imho.
Not necessarily your most local team but a team that doesn't win trophies almost every year. If you can start following that team as a kid and stick with it through the relegations, administrations, **** football, **** players etc. it gives you a real appreciation of the good times and teaches you a bit about loyalty and sticking with something no matter how much people take the piss out of you for it. Also if you follow your dad's team it's a great way of bonding in a society where kids run feral and need some male role models. Of course there are plenty of fans of all the big clubs that would still support those clubs in the Conference but the gloryhunting majority miss out in my opinion.
If your local team is **** and full of moronic hooligans the supporting them only stands to benefit your criminal record.... imagine being brought up near Millwall or West Ham or Burnley or some other 3rd world backwards scum club.
Interesting but why is it so different from the survey carried out by the Prem League themselves? Could it be that the one is biased and one independent? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-in-danger-if-right-manager-is-not-found.html The threat to Liverpool's iconic status is not an idle one. It was revealed in recent figures published by the Premier League how the Merseyside club have dropped below Chelsea and Arsenal in England’s most supported teams. The survey, conducted by SportMarket on behalf of the Premier League, shows Manchester United have 354 million supporters worldwide, Chelsea have 134 million and Arsenal have 113 million. Liverpool are fourth with 71 million and even trail in traditional strongholds. Chelsea have 44 million fans in Asia and the Far East while Liverpool have 33 million.
I'm a 50 year lifelong united fan who's moved around the UK all my life, have never stopped supporting united even through relegation and lean times. There are probably thousands of blokes like me too, but I have never thought of any football player as a role model ....... they play football and that's it, they have no other influence on my life and nor would I expect them to! If you do want a child to be inspired by a celebrity then what is better than taking from one that is on top their game(whatever that profession is) - Glory Hunting is such an over used and such a throw away comment to make, it covers for others inabilities and at times bitterness.
A bit of a generalisation and if that's really going to put you off in the modern era then you're probably better off watching tennis or clay pigeon shooting. United had a pretty tidy 'firm' by all accounts and probably still do.
I meant dads are the role models and going to football with your dad and having a shared interest can help stop kids turning into scumbags. [/QUOTE] Glory Hunting is such an over used and such a throw away comment to make, it covers for others inabilities and at times bitterness.[/QUOTE] No it's not. If a kid from Dorset or Shanghai decides one day to support Barcelona, Real Madrid or United then it's quite likely they want to be able to say they support a successful team. I feel genuinely lucky that I've supported a **** team that is now having some relative success. I've got mates who are Bury fans and I've been to 20 or so Bury away games over the last few years and love that level even more in a lot of ways. It just feels a bit more real.
Sorry for that I didn't realize I was dealing with computer ******s.I thought everyone above 5 could google and figure it out themselves. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-in-danger-if-right-manager-is-not-found.html
This is 1 reason why I started supporting Utd during the late 70's/Early 80's. I was an RAF kid so we was moved about alot but settled for a few years in Wendover(Nr.Aylesbury).Everyone there was either Forest/Leeds or Liverpool. I try to get to OT 2-3 times a season and a couple of away games...yet I'm labeled as a glory hunter.Gotta love democracy
I started to support United in the early 80's also when as a kid I first started to watch NI play in the 1982 world cup. I think it was the Norman Whiteside connection which got me as a kid interested at first. I learnt more about the team and the famous NI players who featured and I was hooked. My father doesn't follow football at all and I have no older brothers plus local Irish League football is so boring. Stupid to claim anyone following United in the 80's was a glory hunter when it was Liverpool who dominated and attracted all the so called plastics of the day. Yes O agree, thank God for freedom of choice.
Yeh but we are not famous or proud of our firm like Millwall, West Ham and Burnley fans amongst other are. I have lived in Burnley, I know they are immensely proud of their hooligans. The young slightly inbred fans all dream of being banned from all football grounds. Leeds are another ****tard club who are proud to be violent.
I actually think it does myself. There's two sides to most stories obviously and there's an argument for both sides but as a parent of two boys I think it is massively satifisying to be able to take them to the game when they want to go. So, by that token I will encourage them to go and watch Swansea City as it is our local club. You know fine well that my personal local club is Manchester United given that I'm from Salford so that is who I support. I've lived in Swansea for nearly 20 years though so also folow them and if my lads want to support them good on them, I will enjoy taking them to games which is nowhere near on the same planet as just sitting watching a match on TV. It just isn't, there is not even a valid argument that can tell me otherwise. The other massively significant thing is that if everyone decided to support the nice successful team who are on Sky every week then those local teams will eventualy curl up and die. Plenty are already and they really need support, and that support should be from local customers. Easy for me to say as a local United fan but when I started supprting United we were ****. I had a to wait a long time for them to reach the current standard which is why I'm a little resentful of bandwaggoneers quite frankly. As stated previously, this is just my opinion which will never change. You're (as in all of you, not Tunnsy specifically) entitled to yours also obviously but I think wherever possible people should get behind their local club, you don't know what you're missing. *edit, this is just my reasoning as to why people should be encouraged to support a local side. it is not having a go at glory hunters or plastics or whatever, those words never passed my lips.
Just finished reading his auto-bio.Good read. Steve Coppell was always my favourite.I think it was because he was a winger and that was where I was always played!!(Playground) I was always called Remi Moses as well
A very small minority still are in 2012. You can't honestly say that Leeds or Burnley fans on the whole are proud of their spotty youths that occasionally wave their arms around and give ****er signs to other groups of spotty youths.
