Whenever I’m outside of Manchester and I get talking to whoever, the topic will usually turn to football. It’s not long before I’m talking about United. “You’re from Manchester? I thought proper Mancs supported City.” If I had a quid for every time I heard this I’d be almost as loaded as the Arabs at Wastelands!
Let’s be honest, the idea that Manchester United can draw in fans from all over the World, but repel support from Mancunians, is plain and simply totally idiotic. It doesn’t make any sense! People don’t assume all scousers support just one of the Merseyside teams, people don’t assume all Brummies support just one of the Midland teams, people don’t assume all cockneys support just one of the London teams… but because United fans have fans all over the country and all over the World, for some reason, it is assumed by those outside of Manchester that Mancunians support City. Moronic.
I’m not sure how this myth spread so rapidly, I have my suspicions that bitters on their jollies perpetuated the lie, but I honestly can’t get away from Manchester without hearing I can’t be a ‘proper Manc’ because I happen to support the team of my father and grandfather etc., and that team happens not to be Manchester City.
Whilst City fans might enjoy going down south or abroad and claiming all Mancs support City, they’d be embarrassed to make such a claim within the city. You only have to go to a pub on match day, in the centre or in the suburbs, to see just how many United fans there are in Manchester. Head out to Stockport and it’s a different story though!
A report in 2001 showed that 7,808 of the season ticket holders at Old Trafford lived in ‘M’ postcodes, compared to the 6,678 Maine Road season ticket holders with ‘M’ postcodes. Obviously, proportionally, that means City had a higher percentage (40% of their season ticket holders were from Manchester, compared to the 29% of United’s), but it does show how many more Mancs have season tickets at United compared to City.
The most popular area for United season ticket holders was Sale (M33), with 3% of all holders coming from this area, which is roughly five miles from the ground and about 10-15 minutes in the car, and just three stops on the met. The most popular area for City season ticket holders was Cheadle (SK8), with 4% of all holders coming from this area, which is also roughly five miles from the ground.
Comedian Jason Manford, who you’ll know if you’ve seen 8 Out Of 10 Cats, is a Salford-born blue. Last night he was on Jonathan Ross and was asked about his football support. After already taking the piss out of the City mugs who showed up with the tea-towels on their head, doing their very best ‘walk like an Egyptian’ impressions, he had to explain the differences between United and City to Ross.
“City is the team for proper Mancunians though, right?” Ross asked. Manford paused rather awkwardly and confessed that actually there were loads of United fans in Manchester (comparing us to rats, saying you were never more than a few feet from one of us!) and that the myth about City fans and Manchester wasn’t true.
If even the City fans are fessing up, then maybe we are actually getting somewhere. But I won’t rule out the chance of ignorant southerners again questioning my support or giddy bitters continuing to spread the Manchester myth!
Man Utd News 24/7
Can’t stand Manford, detest Ross and that picture of those muppets outside wastelands just makes me sick. Think i will go back to bed for an hour .
@King Eric lol manford hes about as funny as cancer the bitter bastard, i went to spain on holiday with me mates must over 20yrs ago and its true when you tell anyone your from manchester ( none english ) they never mention city, the older ones were always mentioning best law and sir Bob Man United the history in 40 or 50 yrs time do you think theyll be saying the same about the lads weve got now ?
as a southerner and a season ticket holder, i probably don’t help your case, but even when i’m in manchester on non-match days, there will ALWAYS be more united shirts around. the only difference between the two clubs is that we can draw supporters from around the world just because of the type of football we play.
I was born and raised in Gorton but now live just outside London. I am constantly having this arguement with football fans from the south. If I get chatting to anyone in a pub on match day it is almost certain to come up. I wish I knew where it came from also because as you say, it simply isn’t true.
My family from Manchester have always lived there and have always supported Manchester United. So do most of my friends and guess what? They’re Mancunian also.
I think partly, fans of clubs like Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool have done their bit to spread this myth – anything they can use to bash us they’ll jump on. I know that is certainly the case with a number of London club fans I know.
Oh well, I can take it so long as we keep winning trophies…..
type of football?….hmmm…more like trophy after trophy that we bring in…it’s human nature to often back the winner…history has repeated this theory about a million times…on a football scale thats why the chelsea section in sports shops is the third biggest section in most northern towns now after United and Liverpool, says it all really, they wouldn’t do that unless it made economic sense, conclusion, most people are glory hunters- it’s human nature…it’s just a shame that us mancunian fans have to suffer this embittered diatribe about ‘proper mancs all support city’ whenever we are anywhere else in the country…
If we go by city fans logic and way of thinking then they wouldn’t consider this manford twat one of their ‘local’ supporters as there always claiming United fans are from salford and that salford isnt Manchester.
city hahahaha they are fucking hilarious at times.
Manchester is RED, they all know it so the fact they try and deny it makes it all the better as it obviously upsets them.
I’m a Barnsley lad and like you Scott i got my love and passion for United from my dad. Him being Irish it was us or livershite – thank god he’s got brains. I first saw Utd in 1964 against Barnsley in the FA Cup, i vaguely remember it (i was only 4) but it certainly made an impression on me. Sorry for going on but its sometimes hard for other fans to comprehend my feelings for this club. But hey thats life.
Some City fan comedian.. Brendan something, on Jonathon Ross last night said… people say all true mancs are city fans… but, it’s not true… Manchester is bloody full of United fans… FULL OF THEM!
and thats coming from a City fan
)
it makes me sick to my stomach to see these kids in rentboy shirts walking around in the North.
Debrabs: I think you may be repeating what Scott has said. “Brendan something – a comedian on Ross” did you mean Jason Manford? if so Scott has covered that if not I apologise.
This is the comedian bigged up by none other than unfunny embittered inbred Peter “I’m not Barry Nowarman!” Kay; there wasn’t a chance in hell I was going to watch the programme.
Slightly off topic this but it brought a smie to my face earlier on today. I visited the not so great capital of cockbreaths today ( I know I know forgive me for my sins) I’m not gonna go into details but it was a familiy matter and the scouse doctors are aparently quicker and better at knickin one of my mams kidneys than a mancunian one! I was walking back to the train station city center and I saw this fit bird about 19 walking bold as brass down the main street in a United shirt. Had to cuckle to myself. My point bein United fans do crop up everywhere it doesn’t help our agument but its always nice seeing a fellow red no matter where you are.
im from dublin so i cant say to much but does it really make that fukin diference where ye come from . if its about the love and passion for the club its a load of bollox coz me me family nd all me mates that follow united ar as passionate abou united as the irish that follow celtic
Oi! i’m a united fan from stockport!
fuck off back to stockport fuck off back to stockport na na na na ….
I’m a Mancunian, in Manchester, supporting Manchester United.
My Dad is a bluenose (he’s originally from Stockport, lol), so I said bollocks.
Stretford and proud lads…….
Dont know man. It is what it is. I have been obsessed with Manchester since I found out thats where my family originated. I get a kick just walking around Salford when I visit but also I grew up in the states. I used to feel weird talking to anyone about United when I was younger because no one cared about the sport. I tend to get a bit anxious when I am surrounded by American United supporters because of our way (their way) of viewing and supporting sport but hey I wouldn’t wanna be surrounded by any other lot on Saturday I suppose! And of course I travel the world most the time anyways these days and love spending time with my cousins, who actually live in Macclesfield. And of course seein United.
Do I sound like a twat? Sorry.
You lucky people get to call yourselves Mancunians.. Sigh. Wish I was one.
sir82 nah mate, if you love United then theres nothing wrong with that.
Im a Hulme red, Manchester La La La!
Let’s hope that those Bitter Blue twats do us a favour today. Can’t see it happening though. They really are an utter shambles of a side and they’d rather hand the points over to the Vermin, if it stops us from winning the title (yeah, like that will happen), than improve their own league position.
The only hope is if Agent Hughes hands himself a place in the starting line-up.
I can’t see bitters beating the dippers but you never know with that lot. A draw would do me and we all know the scousers are capable of those at home.
On a side note there are some very bitter people about today!
just wanted to note, that we have twice as many points as city
lol
It’s all nonsense, I don’t give a crap if a United fan lives on the moon, show support to the club you love (I know I fucking love United, my mood is directly related to United results and to this day, there’s not been a day i’ve been happier, 99 brought tears of joy, best days of my life, best summer of my life, I know 99 is your stereotype United fan bullshit day but come on, how special was it?). I’ve know a Liverpool fan and he’s been to about 5 games in his whole life to watch Liverpool but he loves them so much that I never question his support, if you can’t afford to go you just can’t.
And i’ll tell you another thing, if it wasn’t for glory supporters for whatever club sales revenue wouldn’t be that much, it’s them type of fans that actually buy the United teddy bears or wall paper as they wanna prove they’re proper fans. As long as fans don’t do anything to harm our club and just keep throwing money at us which allows us to become one of the richest teams in the world and allows us to buy top class players I just don’t care. (please note, i’m not saying if you buy the wall paper or stuffed animals that you’re a glory fan).
agent hughes is doing nicely 1-1 at looserpool
7 points clear thank you very much…….
Anyone know where Scott is? thought there may have been some posts on here today. Plenty to talk about. Like how Rafa has fucked it up again! When you do put an entry on Scott mate please make sure it has a connection to dippers news now so we get the cunts on here again and can really wind em up now!
King eric
i bet scott is writing so many articles at the moment that hes saving them all at a go,
ive refreshed this page more times than i can remember.
SEVEN POINTS ON TOP,
Life couldnt be better, hope u r a=enjoying the momentas much as i am
I was thinking that pal, a nice Liverpool heading to get the cunts in from news now, I have a feeling we won’t see many though in the next day or two ;o)
I was also wondering when Scott would make a topic.At the moment i couldn’t give a fuck about the dippers dropping 2 points.If they can’t beat Shity at their own ground then they are no challenge to us.What concerns me is once again this injusry crisis that always creeps in when we have our European knock out ties.i just read an article in the Guardian.Jonny has done some ligaments again so realistically he cannot play at Milan.Neville might have a chance for the CC final.Our only hope for Tuesday is John O’Shea.He is 50-50 to make it and centre half is not his best position.The article stated that if O’Shea doesn’t make it either,it will be either Carrick of Fletcher partnering Rio.Wes Brown?Apparently,he broke a metatarsal about 2 weeks back.How nice of the club that they didn’t say anything ah?
I’m originally from Wythenshawe, though we moved to Yorkshire when i was still a kid. My older brother was a United fan, so I followed him and became one too. It pisses me off good and proper that idiots / city fans say i’m some sort of glory fan. I support the team that was bred into me from being young for christ sake!!! Gotta say though, i do love shutting the cunts up when i get the “i bet your not even from manchester” shit thrown at me. I was working with some city knob on thursday who, even after he had heard that i was at the Fulham game the previous evening, still insisted i wasnt a “real” fan. Fuck him, and fuck all these cunts who are so blinded by jealousy they dont even realise what a pathetic argument they have. We cant help having fans spread all over the world. Maybe if city weren’t so wank they might have a few fans worldwide too.
Oh, and i think O’Shea is an excellent centre back, and hopefully he’ll be fit enough to show it on tuesday. Didnt he end up having to play there in one of the Barca games last year? I may be wrong, i just seem to think it.
jason manford is my favourite bitter blue
If thats all to be believed then it is a concern costas. Wonder if SAF is playing games though?
I hope so King.It’s not the first time that he has hidden injuries though.I don’t know what to think about this defensive crisis before the European games anymore.Let’s just hope that O’Shea makes it and that Rio will help him through.O’Shea did ok at Roma last year but they didn’t have two tall strikers like Inter have.If he does make it,i think Ronaldo,Carrick,Fletcher,Park and Berbatov are certain starters.The only other loose end is Rooney or Tevez.
Oh,and O’Shea didn’t play against Barca.Wes did and it suited him just fine since they didn’t have any aerial threat.O’Shea did brilliantly against Roma away but when he came up against Alfonso Alves 4 days later he had problems.
Agree with your midfield but definately got to be Rooney 2 goals in first two games back, gave his all again yesterday. I personally would always start Wayne.No question.
I do like O’Shea but the thought of him in central defence for this tie does not fill me with confidence. Whatever happens I am sure we will cope, get an away goal and do them back at Old Trafford with hopefully a full strength team.
Would have preferred Scholesy to Fletch alongside Carrick but is he up to 3 games on bounce?
I don’t think so King.The game yesterday illustrated that he is not up to 2 games in 4 days.We could have done with Anderson around this time.He would have played against Blackburn keeping Scholesy fresh for the San Siro.And you are not wrong about the 3 mifielders.That’s how SAF played against Roma both times in the Quarters of last season.At the moment the defense has a big hole.We have 11 straight wins in all competitions and we have gone 19 games unbeaten in the Ch.League(one more and we could have the record).Both records will be veeeery hard to preserve.
City fans only use this argument because it is the only thing they can physically prove. You wouldn’t expect them to claim that they are a better club than United because they have been more successful over the years. They would end up in a looney bin in a blink.
The way I look at it is, no matter what country or what city I’m in, I’m sure to find a few United fans lerking around. Thats a wonderful feeling to have.