It's hardly worth looking on the caf, to be honest, because what you pick up fairly quickly is that a truly huge proportion of posters are nowhere near Trafford Park and have never set foot in it in their lives. In that sense, what they claim is true — they are a world club. With a relatively weak local base. A very strange hybrid monster.
I think that this is even more true of them than it is of LFC, although I couldn't quantify it of course. I mean it specifically of those who post on Redcafé, as opposed to RAWK. There are a load of authentic Liverpudlian nutters posting on the latter, I believe. Not that I've looked on there for several years.
A few years ago, in a pub, I very briefly met a young Australian, clearly on holiday in Europe, who intoned very solemnly, “I'm a United supporter”. For a brief second, I thought of asking him, quite neutrally, “And when did you last step through the turnstiles?”
And then I thought, why bother. Did not pursue the conversation.