I think with Arsenal vs City for the PL and the CL/FA cup potential treble preying on their minds, the United fanbase has reached peak ‘cognitive dissonance’.
Support Arsenal to win PL:
‘proper organic non financial doping club’ - despite how arsenal originally joined division 1 and their ‘financial doping’ by Fiszman.
‘Anything to stop the state sponsored oil cheats’ - ‘oh please Qatar buy us and get rid of the glazers’.
‘City Financial cheats’ - despite being bailed out by 2x financial external investors in their history and now looking for a 3rd to help with their almost £1b debt.
‘City could equal and then beat our unique record of 3 titles in a row’- Huddersfield, Arsenal and Liverpool would like a word.
Support City to win PL:
‘Arsenal are our bigger rivals’ - supporters who started following united at start of PL.
‘Arsenal supporters are all arseholes and Ive never met a City supporter anywhere’ - London based or similar united fans.
‘City winning trophies mean nothing’ - but I’m going to talk about it endlessly because it means nothing.
Don’t care who wins PL:
‘Liverpool are our main rivals’- London based or similar fans who started following united at the start of the PL.
Almost Any point/argument put forward can be pointed out as illogical or at least hypocritical.
There are a few who understand real history, Manc rivalry, and an ‘anyone but them’, but they are few and far between.