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Title: Hail, Brittania! Manchester United is world's richest sports team!
Post by: 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 (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ft/20040304/bs_ft/1077690881043) play a single game but I have gone to a couple of Yankees games and watched the Bucs on tv.
Title: Hail, Brittania! Manchester United is world's richest sports team!
Post by: Pei 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.
Title: Hail, Brittania! Manchester United is world's richest sports team!
Post by: 59funkman on March 04, 2004, 05:26:01 PM
That ain't a sport.  It's an amusement for adolescent schoolgirls.
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Post by: CyranoAH on March 04, 2004, 05:40:49 PM
Give it a couple of years and Real Madrid will take the top spot.

Daniel
Title: Hail, Brittania! Manchester United is world's richest sports team!
Post by: -tronski- 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.


(http://www.manutdzone.com/legends/cantona2.jpg)

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

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

 Tronsky
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Post by: rpm on March 04, 2004, 10:35:24 PM
Are they some Arena Football team?
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Post by: -tronski- 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! :p

 Tronsky
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Post by: NUKE 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
Title: Hail, Brittania! Manchester United is world's richest sports team!
Post by: Dowding on March 05, 2004, 04:14:18 AM
Good for you Nuke!

Man U suck (literally) and the players are moronic nancy boys.
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Post by: beet1e 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!
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Post by: Swoop 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?

(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-9/48257/20029211530-0-Swoop.gif)
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Post by: Saurdaukar 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.
Title: Hail, Brittania! Manchester United is world's richest sports team!
Post by: Dowding 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.
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Post by: ravells on March 05, 2004, 08:24:11 AM
Chelsea!

Like young Ms Clinton!

Ravs
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Post by: thrila on March 05, 2004, 11:29:29 AM
You're both wrong....it's pronounced chelski.:D