I compared the urban areas, Newcastle city has about 250k. The teams you mention aren’t taking huge numbers from you. We both have fans that travel to home games from around the country but, that’s only really recent thing.
Manchester as a city and area is in a different stratosphere to Newcastle.
Can we not just agree that Rio is a self interested, obnoxious, gobshite?
I guess asking other fans to recognise what Ashley is doing to the club and have any empathy with the fans is a bit of a stretch for some.