Proof that Manchester IS blue

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Prestwich_Blue

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But doesn't that just mean that ManUre are the team of choice for football fans from small towns around the country? I used to work with a systems analyst who originally came from Scarborough, and I found it weird when he said he was a ManUre supporter but Scarborough were his 'local team'.

I found this concept a bit odd because I've only got space in my heart for City, but subsequently when I've come across fans who support one of the big Premier League teams albeit they live nowhere near the club, its usually because they want to be emotionally involved at the top end of football so they nail their colours to the mast of the top team they like best even though they still support their 'local club'..

Even when we were in the 3rd tier of English football, I hardly watched a Premier League match as none held any interest for me. But I suppose the fact I've always delusionally (until recent times made it actually true) considered City to be one of the giants of English football, I always knew we'd get back to the Premier League at some point so suddenly supporting another club had never entered my mind.

I suppose my ex colleague might have thought Scarborough stood three chances of ever getting to the Premier League and regularly competing with the elite....... Slim, none and fat fuckin.

Probably explains why when asked which team he supports he says ManUre, but when pressed admits Scarborough are who he started with.
 
I've always noticed any rags from Plymouth/Telford/Lincoln etc etc have an excuse why they support them.
"After reading about the air disaster I knew they were the team for me"
"My grandad was based in manchester during the war"
"Ralph Milne was my dad's best mate"
They always have some shitty excuse to justify there support for a team that is hundred of miles away from where they live and non have the bollocks to just say "do you know what , I just picked them because they were winning everything"
Feckless, gutless Twats who deserve any misery that comes there way.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-united-liverpool-least-local-7401411

The article, based on the annual PL Fans Survey, found that only 29% of rag fans are actually based in the North West whereas for us that figure is 52%.

It goes on to say that another 10% of rags are based in the South East, meaning that 61% of them are based somewhere other than the North West/South East.
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If there are 700 million of the cunts I am not sure how 29% are in the north west? Presumably means of their UK cunts?
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-united-liverpool-least-local-7401411

The article, based on the annual PL Fans Survey, found that only 29% of rag fans are actually based in the North West whereas for us that figure is 52%.

It goes on to say that another 10% of rags are based in the South East, meaning that 61% of them are based somewhere other than the North West/South East.
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I assume your conclusion is tongue in cheek, PB, otherwise your numerical reasoning needs brushing up.
 
Was about to say... MCR Centre is any colour. it's such a multi diverse City, It's rare I hear the English accent much when moving around town, never mind a Mancunian accent.

As the club becomes more successful I can see a lot of the people who have moved into MCR may adopt City as "their" team.
Don't be surprised to hear more southern accents amongst our fan base... the amount of Londoners that have sold up and moved around here as it's much cheaper
is shit for us locals as everything becomes dearer.

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They will also take our football club as well lol
 
sir baconface said:
The size of fan base on which the per centages are calculated.
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I appreciate I may have taken a little bit of artistic licence with the thread title and that "Over 70% of rag fans are tourists" would have been more accurate.

But I think the PL survey is based on match-going fans only (i.e. where they travel to games from) so let's assume 3,000 away fans at both grounds, meaning 72,000 & 51,000 for them and us respectively.

That's about 21,000 local fans for them and over 25,000 for us. So on that basis we have a higher number of locally based fans than they do.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I appreciate I may have taken a little bit of artistic licence with the thread title and that "Over 70% of rag fans are tourists" would have been more accurate.

But I think the PL survey is based on match-going fans only (i.e. where they travel to games from) so let's assume 3,000 away fans at both grounds, meaning 72,000 & 51,000 for them and us respectively.

That's about 21,000 local fans for them and over 25,000 for us. So on that basis we have a higher number of locally based fans than they do.
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Yes; my point was simply that we didn't have the base numbers to hand.

Anyway, based on my scientific index of pure class and impeccable taste, Manchester is most definitely blue.
 
Was in TGI Fridays at Cheshire oaks a couple of weeks ago and had the Chelsea/Man u game streaming on my phone. One of the staff there came over to enquire about the score and asked if I was a red but before I could answer my little girl interrupted and told him I was a blue. "Oh you're a glory hunter then" !! The cheeky bastard ! Steady on I told him.
Anyway United scored and the smug cockney (yes cockney) rag was so pleased and after my meal just as the game was ending up popped Costa.
I took great delight in tapping him on the shoulder and telling him Chelsea had just scored in the dying seconds. He thought I was lying at first and then to see his face drop was amazing. The timing was epic
 
bobmcfc said:
Was in TGI Fridays at Cheshire oaks a couple of weeks ago and had the Chelsea/Man u game streaming on my phone. One of the staff there came over to enquire about the score and asked if I was a red but before I could answer my little girl interrupted and told him I was a blue. "Oh you're a glory hunter then" !! The cheeky bastard ! Steady on I told him.
Anyway United scored and the smug cockney (yes cockney) rag was so pleased and after my meal just as the game was ending up popped Costa.
I took great delight in tapping him on the shoulder and telling him Chelsea had just scored in the dying seconds. He thought I was lying at first and then to see his face drop was amazing. The timing was epic
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Why is a MANUre game streaming on yer phone? I wait until the end of a game, just in case they score when I turn on, to see if they've been whipped. I must admit it was a joy to see 1-1!!!
 
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