Its them all over, they peddled that myth in the 80's before Ferguson turned up, its like comparing the spice girls to led zeppelin, they never have been the biggest club in the world, I pointed out only the other week to one gormless twat that Bayern and Dortmund average more than them for home fixtures, that Madrid, Bayern, Liverpool, Barca, Milan piss all over them for European Cups, Liverpool are about to go equal on title wins.
Being bigger to them is having more facebook followers, they're a myth, always fucking have been compared to other big European clubs. Propaganda wears thin in the end, they've had the media stick their tongues up their arses for that long they cant see the wood for the trees-its why they're in the mess that they are.