Why Manchester United Football Club Are No.1 In England.

By: Keith Driscoll


Manchester United Football Club is an English football club, located at the Old Trafford stadium in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and possibly the most popular football club in the world, with over 50 million supporters worldwide. Manchester United Football Club is a renowned English football club, with a capacity of around 76,000 and the highest average audience in the league. Manchester United Football Club is probably the single thing for which the city of Manchester is most famed. The tradition of Manchester United football club is magnificnet and most supporters have a real affinity to the club. Manchester has a tradition of distinction in sport. Manchester United Football Club is less than two miles from the University, first class cricket can be seen at Old Trafford, and Salford has one of the top Rugby League teams in the country, the renowned Salford Reds.

Football

Since the late 1990s, the club has been one of the richest in the world, and until recently had the top revenue of any football club for several years running. Nearly overnight, English football re-invented itself as a glamorous sport with enormous commercial appeal. The massive power and reach of TV is turning football into one of the world's most rewarding sports. The club is one of the most triumphant clubs in England, having won the FA Premier League/Football League 15 times, FA Cup eleven times and the European Cup/UEFA Champions League twice.

Cup

They also became the first English teams to participate in the European Cup, at the request of the FA, who had deprived Chelsea the same chance the previous season, and reached the semi-final, only to be knocked out by Real Madrid. Tragedy hit the following season, when the airplane transporting the team home from a European Cup match crashed on take-off at a refuelling stop in Munich, Germany. The plane skidded off the end of the runway, through a fence and into an empty home. Despite the accident, they reached the FA Cup final again, where they lost to Bolton Wanderers. Manchester United have won silverware on a regular basis throughout their proud and thriving history and on the domestic front have won the both the old First Division Championship and the Premier League, the old Second Division, and the FA Cup and League Cup. By the time Matt Busby left in 1969 United had won five First Division titles, 2 FA Cup Finals and of course became the first English team to win the European Cup in 68.

Fans

When Manchester United visited Thailand in 1997, 1000s of United fans flocked to the national stadium in Bangkok to see their heroes for real; but the nearest a lot of The Clubs Asian supporters got to seeing their team is on national televisions, where the whole English Premiership is promoted almost daily.

Up to 67,500 fans often pack into Old Trafford to watch Manchester United play football. Like mentioned earlier, the biggest group of fans can be found in Asia. This has enabled Manchester United to create an interactive, on-line football community that will become the ultimate match and club experience for all its fans, on match days, during the build up, and then the after-match examination. Maintaining their position could not have been done without the fans worldwide that have turned into United-consumers in the meantime. Of course, when in Manchester, Manchester United football club is one of the first things that comes to mind for nearly everyone, so a visit to their stadium at Old Trafford is a common pilgrimage for fans.


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