Threads like this only serve as ammo for lurking City fans.
They usually start well with reasoned arguments, but when you get further down and read "When I went to Manchester" or "Whenever I'm in Manchester" it just gets a bit embarrassing and stereotypical of the "average OOT rag". If I didn't live in Manchester I wouldn't start a thread like this.
On Bluemoon most of them actually believe that Citeh has more fans in Manchester than United. Plus the always spout that they are real, passionate fans unlike those "armchair rags". And than they have 28.000 fans at a fifth round (!) FA cup home game? That's nearly 20,000 shy of capacity. That's absolutely laughable. What's next? Espanyol claiming to be the biggest club in Barcelona? QPR supporters saying they've got more fans than the Arse?
I've been to Manchester countless times and have literally talked to hundreds of different people in pubs and bars in the City Centre. Nearly all of those people were Reds.In fact I haven't encountered more than a handful of Blues. Hell, I've met more Stockport supporters and Liverpool fans in Manchester than Citeh fans!
80:20 for United, and that's being generous.
PTME
Manchester has always been more populated with United fans than city fans, most people including City fans themselves know this, if you were to undertake a survery all over Manchester youd likely find 75% to be United fans....you can go back 80 to 90 years and look at the attendance figures of the two clubs season after season and see United have always been the better supported Manchester club.
It really is extremely hard to compete with their tales of Bermuda hot shot Shaun Goater and their boy-zone-esque singing voices as heard on the popular club track 'Blue moon'.
On a side note I'm pretty sure I dislike Roberto Mancini as much as anyone else in football. There is something about the man I really can't stand.