Just came across this:
MANCHESTER UNITED and Liverpool officially have more supporters in London than in their own cities, according to a recent study. For decades there’s been the old-fashioned joke that United su…
www.thesun.co.uk
I know it is 3 years old and I know it is the Sun newspaper, however it is an official pole and is quite interesting. The rags have nearly a million more fans in London than in Manchester, in fact City and the dippers also have more fans in the capital (although not as extreme). The other interesting thing is how many city fans there are, our numbers are growing (and will definitely be bigger now than then) and very comparable to other big 6 clubs - kind of kills the “no fans” gibe they like to throw at us and confirm a lot of what we really know about ourselves and others.