yep, places like heaton moor, reddish or cheadle are right next to manchester/ suburbs, but irlam which is further away has an M post code. plastic mancs ;) i have united mates that go on about city fans being from stockport and i can never understand why. i live about 5 minutes away from manchester - kingsway/parswood
They dont actually support them, they like to be associated with them. Loads of L/pool 'fans' round here, obviously. Talked to quite a few ...'reds', a few have been once, some never and a couple of dodgy looking ones dont even now where o/t is. Even refused one cheeky bastard the use of the works toilet until his mum admitted he knew nothing about football. Great for winding up.
Lived 20 yards away from new issy baths they knocked it down about 35 year ago built the cardroom they knocked that down and started throwing all these flats up.
Failsworth has a Manchester postcode M35, and the vast majority of Failsworthians would say they are from Manchester. We do however pay our council tax to Oldham, and our MP represents Ashton. I would say any place with a Manchester postcode is part of Manchester.