Why do United fans have to....

[peteblue]

To be fair, they've been keeping the kopites quiet for the best part of three decades, right up until the point we sent them Moyes...

GOOD GAWD WHAT HAVE WE DONE!

Given ourselves hope.......

 

[nigelcoyb]

Brand followers aren't football fans apparently nearly half a million have "unliked" Utd this season (whatever that means) and I've read posts on Redcafe asking who else is considering switching to Arsenal.

One of the biggest blights on football the pandering to these brand followers.

 

[WA Toffee]

Try meeting a United "fan" here in The States.

You can literally run circles around them and make them look like complete fools after talking football with them for 3 minutes.

They're American, of course you can make them look stupid

 

[EvertonAmerican]

They're American, of course you can make them look stupid

I wish I could dispute that claim, but I'm coming up blank haha.

 

[Jeff Jones]

Try meeting a United "fan" here in The States.

You can literally run circles around them and make them look like complete fools after talking football with them for 3 minutes.

It's exactly the same here in Australia. If you try to start a conversation about 'their club' with people wearing
Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Man City shirts, and you can include Barca and Real Madrid as well, amongst others, you will usually be talking to a glory hunter who has no connection with them, at all.

Stop someone wearing Sheffield Wednesday gear, for instance, and they'll know everything about them.

To be fair, I once stopped a complete stranger wearing an Everton top and he gave me a blank look and said he didn't follow soccer and his brother bought it for him in Liverpool.

 

[Pabbers]

All the ones from London etc, always have an Uncle/Aunty/Dad/ that was from Manchester......!

 

[Yid4life]

Agreed, all the Man U & RS i meet here in the deep south (generally 40-55 age bracket) immediately try & justify it with some ridiculouly tenuous link to the club rather than just admitting it is because when they were kids those were the two teams that were most successful.

That said, the funniest one was said to me by a Woolwich fan who stated 'i am not a glory hunter, i even supported Arsenal when they only used to come sixth'.

 

[davidloach]

RS fans shouldn't have to give the date when they became a supporter because everyone already knows the answer: "Istanbul May 2005"

 

[thirdmantackle]

Football wasn't invented then lad......

Pre-premiership.
Doesn't count in Sky's eyes

 

[RFUS]

My mate's a United fan. Lives nowhere near Manchester. Never been to Old Trafford. Moaning non stop about Moyes. Only watches about 1/5th of their games on his laptop.

Glory hunters stink, and watching them scuttle away like rats is a pleasant experience. For all of the proper United fans, they've had enough success and they'll get through the exacerbated blip I'm sure. No sympathy from me, just a lot of laughter.