Comments on: STATS: United vs City – The Best Supported Club Since The 1940′s and Before Premiership?

By: Sewerez

Sewerez — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:35:08 +0000

Q.What is the pinnacle of ‘Manchester City’s History’ (Perfect Oxymoron)

A. Cup Winners Cup

Q. What was the attendance?

A. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_European_Cup_Winners%27_Cup_Final

Please think up a feasible lie before answering and not the usual bullshit
By the way the game was of such importance that it was not televised live!!!!

Big Club ha!ha! Same history as Portsmouth and less league titles than Huddersfield!!!!

By: Colin. B.M. Rising

Colin. B.M. Rising — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:54:57 +0000

An interesting view but flawed. In the early years fans attended the club who was playing at home . Also trafford park in those days was a hive of activity ,where workers would attend old trafford just by its conveniece. A study has been carried out in manchester and proved that the city is 50/50 red and blue.

By: Dunc

Dunc — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:09:27 +0000

Kippaxboy good comment, except you seem to have missed the fact that many United fans, including my dad his mates who were reds also attended all the games at Maine Rd while our ground was being rebuilt. My dad put his name on the season ticket waiting list as soon as he could after the war and eventually got 2 season tickets in 1965. Although in those days season tickets were restricted to 13,000 I doubt there’s ever been a City fan who waited the best part of 20 years for a season ticket. (The rest of this isn’t a reply to anyone in particular it’s just an opinion I’d like to state.)

I’ve never been a red who’ll say that City aren’t a very well supported club and I’ll never say that they’re not a big club, but in my opinion anyone who believes that City have or ever have had more fans born and raised in the Greater Manchester area than United have is either daft or one of the bitter format of blues.

When I was at school and for a long time after the City fans I knew used used to go on about how United fans came mainly from Salford and how it wasn’t even in Manchester. I used to say “neither is Middleton or Chadderton or Oldham, they’re in Lancashire, which is where we were all from. Now that’s changed and all they go on about is how most of our supporters are from London etc. But it’s basically just the same bull spun a different way.

United do have a massive fan base from all around the country and from all around the world, and it’s true that fan base mainly arose from the Munich disaster when people who weren’t even interested in football became so, (although the European Cup even before that had started to grow the fanbase outside of Manchester) so there is massively more demand for tickets and therefore there is bound to be a higher percentage of Manchester born fans at City games than United games, but it is silly to confuse that with the amount of fans who either can’t go or choose not to who are from Manchester.

The attendances posted here don’t lie, and if they don’t tell you a story then you don’t want to listen.

By: kippaxboy

kippaxboy — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:50:51 +0000

very interesting comments,just one note of caution the attendance stats dont take into account the number of City fans who attended both matches at Maine Rd
during 1946-1949 period-my father and his brothers went every week to the ground which was a stones throw from Upper lloyd st where we lived and many other fans did the same

By: ted

ted — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:48:55 +0000

The difference between man utd and man city is like heaven and hell. Man utd is a club with tradition and history. Its a club coated and molded with pride, love and affection. That love and affection can be seen in the way SAF and the players celebrate every goal scored. It most be painful to be prawns and play things to mansour and his ilks .imagine the kind of fun and joke those arabs will be having in their arabs penthouses in manchester and in their desert homes. I prefer american alliance than the arabs who might have a dagger in their cloak ready to slash every blue throat in manchester for the fun of it they can’t get their money worth of success. I can imagine all the pains and jealousy that resides inside every blue fans towards their much rich and illustrous neigbhours in red shirts. But what I can’t understand is to be so poor and desperate as to pitch tent with mansour. Who told man city fans that they are rich? The money belong to mansour and his family and they can take it with them any time they are tired of having fun or waiting for the trophy. Money cannot buy the premiership else west brom would have bought it ahead of chelsea and man city. Its undoutably known that man utd has the biggest, highest and supporters and fan base than man city will have in another life time. So I suggest to citeh fans to join ‘em if you can’t beat ‘em.

By: MANCHSTER IS RED

MANCHSTER IS RED — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:18:20 +0000

$h!+y you will never win any thing

By: maqcs

maqcs — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:14:44 +0000

Should really use percentages of ground capacity to compare, as old trafford has a much high capacity so will more than likey to be on top, otherwise it’s like comparing apples and oranges, i.e. meaningless

By: ajopaul

ajopaul — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:32:44 +0000

I thought I would just make it a triple figure comment by adding “Manchester is RED” get it!!

By: Talljonny

Talljonny — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:46:40 +0000

Fair enough, as you’d imagine I don’t spend much time on here, I only spotted this as newsnow linked to it.

Fingers crossed City fans will be accused of being gloryhunters at some point!!

By: aig alex is god

aig alex is god — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:01:24 +0000

Talljonny

ok. thats true.It does depend on where you live. You do have a point but if you read some of Scotts articles before this there were city fans accusing United fans of being glory hunters adn that being the reason United are so well supported and that is why he wrote this article