Author Topic: Hail, Brittania! Manchester United is world's richest sports team! (Read 604 times)

gofaster · « **on:** March 04, 2004, 12:50:44 PM »

Well, at least the Bucs get honorable mention. I can honestly say I've never seen Manchester United play a single game but I have gone to a couple of Yankees games and watched the Bucs on tv.

Pei · « **Reply #1 on:** March 04, 2004, 05:20:44 PM »

Man U are inescapable. Everywhere you go in the world you will see people wearing Man U shirts and kicking around Man U footballs. They are especially popular in Asia.

59funkman · « **Reply #2 on:** March 04, 2004, 05:26:01 PM »

That ain't a sport. It's an amusement for adolescent schoolgirls.

CyranoAH · « **Reply #3 on:** March 04, 2004, 05:40:49 PM »

Give it a couple of years and Real Madrid will take the top spot.

Daniel

-tronski- · « **Reply #4 on:** March 04, 2004, 05:43:28 PM »

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Originally posted by Pei
Man U are inescapable. Everywhere you go in the world you will see people wearing Man U shirts and kicking around Man U footballs. They are especially popular in Asia.

I only have the one shirt...it's a '96-'97 home with Cantona (7) on the back

...glory glory man united......glory glory man united....

Tronsky

rpm · « **Reply #5 on:** March 04, 2004, 10:35:24 PM »

Are they some Arena Football team?

-tronski- · « **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2004, 10:55:17 PM »

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Originally posted by rpm371
Are they some Arena Football team?

Back in your box philistine!

Tronsky

NUKE · « **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2004, 11:16:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Pei
Man U are inescapable. Everywhere you go in the world you will see people wearing Man U shirts and kicking around Man U footballs. They are especially popular in Asia.

Nobody in the US knows what "Man U" is

Dowding · « **Reply #8 on:** March 05, 2004, 04:14:18 AM »

Good for you Nuke!

Man U suck (literally) and the players are moronic nancy boys.

beet1e · « **Reply #9 on:** March 05, 2004, 04:56:51 AM »

Tronski! I have a "plain" Man U shirt of my own somewhere - given to me around 1991. I wanted one with the number 7 on it like yours!

Although I was an avid Man U supporter in the glory days of the early 1990s, I did begin to feel that the Sunday afternoon fixture on ITV (John Motson) might as well be renamed to "The Man U Show", so often were they featured.

I really enjoyed the performances by Eric "the King" Cantona. Not a pace man, just a great tactical and strategic player. And he was French!

Swoop · « **Reply #10 on:** March 05, 2004, 06:10:36 AM »

I firmly agree with Dowd.

When I was a kid a discovering football (asside from deciding at an early age that kicking an inflated pigskin around a grass field until it rolls into a goal at either end was a bloody stupid way to spend 90 minutes) I just couldn't understand why most of my mates would support Manchester......I mean Manchester was 200 miles from where I grew up and we had two local teams......one of which was in the 1st division at the time (isn't anymore, they suck these days - Oxford Utd).

So if Oxford were playing Manchester.......a large proportion of supporters from Oxford would be supporting Manchester. That just seems totally alien to me, people supporting a team merely because they're seeing a lot of success. I mean what happened to loyalty?

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #11 on:** March 05, 2004, 08:03:18 AM »

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Originally posted by NUKE
Nobody in the US knows what "Man U" is

I do, I do!

Guy I work with is more of a "Cheltsey" fan though. Did I spell that right? Thats how he says it.

Dowding · « **Reply #12 on:** March 05, 2004, 08:23:57 AM »

It's Chelsea. And they are even worse. Their first team is populated almost exclusively by foreign studmuffins, as opposed to English ones.

ravells · « **Reply #13 on:** March 05, 2004, 08:24:11 AM »

Chelsea!

Like young Ms Clinton!

Ravs

thrila · « **Reply #14 on:** March 05, 2004, 11:29:29 AM »

You're both wrong....it's pronounced chelski.