United thread 2019/20

[blue b4 the moon]

So, they’ve won f*** all for years, but United’s support has risen by 2/3rds in 7 years.

I personally think it’s all down to Mr Potato Crisps, 1 of their main sponsors.

From the Kantar website.

Kantar survey for Manchester United reveals over a billion fans and followers
Published on: 16 August 2019

As one of the world’s most successful and well known sports teams, Manchester United wanted to better understand and quantify the number of fans and followers they have in order to articulate their position at the forefront of sports brands.

To achieve this, we worked with Manchester United on a global survey to ascertain how many people around the world identify as a fan or follower of the club. The survey was conducted across 39 countries, comprised over 54,000 respondents and took place over the first six months of 2019. It repeats a similar survey conducted in 2012 – also by Kantar – to ensure comparability of approach, methodology and results.

The research results revealed a fan and follower base for Manchester United of 1.1 billion people, comprising 467 million fans and 635 million followers*.

This represents an increase of over 400 million on the similar survey conducted in 2012. The largest increases were in the Asia Pacific region, in particular China, where the number of fans and followers grew from 108 million in 2012 to 253 million today.

Antonio Wanderley, Kantar Global CEO, Sports, comments "As the global appeal of football continues to grow, it is vital for clubs like Manchester United to understand the experience and behaviour of their fans around the world. The scale of this survey is significant, with 74% of the world’s adult population represented across 39 surveyed markets, to give a robust representation of football’s fan base. Using online interviews we statistically extrapolated the global number of fans and followers of Manchester United using a wide range of variables, from TV viewing data and social media usage through to FIFA rankings and GDP metrics."

*‘Fans’ are defined as those who answered survey questions, unprompted, with the answer that Manchester United was their favourite football team in the world. The term ‘follower’ is defined as those individuals who answered survey questions, unprompted, with the answer that Manchester United is a football team that they proactively follow in addition to their favourite football team

Shit that means we're technically part of the figures

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

They are so fucking needy.

 

[mexico1970]

I don't know how they count their billion, it used to be 650 million they are plucking numbers out of thin air. Maybe they are just adding up all the buyers of goods from their sponsors as in every Chevy owner is a rag etc.
Either way it's all just rubbish isn't it?

 

[waspish]

Question do watch football/soccer? If answer is yes question do watch games when the rags play well of course them do because it aint rags vs rags is it!

Its how you ask a question to get the answers you want!?

 

[crazyg]

Shit that means we're technically part of the figures

Only 1 in 7 of us.

i'm definitely not, so it must be you.

RAG!

;-)

 

[LeeJay]

So let me get this right.over a billion people purposely choose a team that repeatedly hovers over mid table?

Sounds legit.

It's also the way it's sold / marketed abroad.

I've lost count of how many Chinese students i've seen wandering around places like London / York / Cambridge / Oxford (i work all over the place) wearing utd shirts.... A few weeks ago there were litterally hundreds of Chinese students staying in the same hotel i was in in London, there were so many utd shirts - had it not been off season i'd have thought there was a game on.

They don't support utd in a fan base way, but it could be argued because they buy their merchandise they support them financially.

OC i might be completely undervaluing how these people see utd, they might be avid supporters following every game and every kick religiously - but when you see so many people wearing Pogba shirts, you kinda question whether they do actually follow the game ;)

i can't remember the figure now, but i saw an article last year sayuing that utd opened so many stores in China to cater for the huge fan base over there.

The worldwide fan base must have a huge proportion of people who just buy into the spin.

We were at Norton Ceynes services a few seasons ago - there were some coaches full of City fans in, and i'm pretty sure there were a load of Burnley fans milling around, then a coach pulled in with Chinese students - they must have been fresh from the Utd store because everyone had a utd cap or shirt on. It was all good banter, and a lot of the blues were pointing at the utd caps and booing - all in good fun. A lot of the Chinese students had photo's taken with City fans - they don't have a clue lol.

 

[cookster]

Yes apparenty one in five people in the entire world now support the Rags. It is all based on an online survey of 54,000 people. The alleged Press Association Reporter seems happy to tweet this out without making the slightest journalistic challenge. This is not so much fake news as "deranged news."

When you factor in children under 5 and people with no interest in Football it's probably about one in three or four. Anyone who thinks that's plausible is an idiot.
The population of Greater Manchester is close to 3M, I be amazed if 1M of them were Rags.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

When you factor in children under 5 and people with no interest in Football it's probably about one in three or four. Anyone who thinks that's plausible is an idiot.
The population of Greater Manchester is close to 3M, I be amazed if 1M of them were Rags.

And absolutely staggered if 1% of them were match going rags.

 

[keith's curle]

This is the important bit from that article:

*‘Fans’ are defined as those who answered survey questions, unprompted, with the answer that Manchester United was their favourite football team in the world. The term ‘follower’ is defined as those individuals who answered survey questions, unprompted, with the answer that Manchester United is a football team that they proactively follow in addition to their favourite football team

So that means every single person on this thread is a United 'follower' and one of the 1.1Bn seeing as you look for their results (as a minimum) to see if they lost.

I hope you're all ashamed of yourselves.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Only 1 in 7 of us.

i'm definitely not, so it must be you.

RAG!

;-)

Haha finally outed. ;)