Quote Originally Posted by Richard Head View Post
Don't think you can compare City with Blackburn. Despite their history Blackburn don't have the fan base of City, they're not even the biggest club in East Lancs. This was epitomised in the Jack Walker funded title year by the chant 'you wanna buy some supporters' they heard at many grounds
Look if Danbo can make those comparisons it must be National Wild Comparisons Day....

United are incomparable now to 1971-1974.. anyone who knows about football, even a city fan, knows that.

The fan base, infrastructure, recent success, average age of the team, its all good..

We do have debt but we get stronger as a business and as you say City have a fan base.. which is what owners exploit.. so say the glazers default, new owners step in.. our Fanbase is many times that of City's.

I know Danbo thinks Man U struggle the fans dissapear.. do they? year on year our attendances, even when relegated, eclipse that of City...
http://therepublikofmancunia.com/wp-...Attendance.JPG

"Interesting facts
- United have had a higher average attendance than City EVERY SINGLE SEASON since 1947.
- When City won the league in the 1968, they had the 6th highest attendance in the country. United had the highest average attendance of 57,552, more than 10,000 higher than any club that season.
- When United were playing in Division 2 during the 1974-1975 season, they still had the highest average attendance of any club in the country, including Division 1.
- City have had a higher average attendance ranking than they have average league position every decade.
- Between 1946 and 1949 United played at Maine Road whilst reconstruction work was being done on Old Trafford after the bombings in the war. In the first season, when City won the league, United had an average attendance of 4,662 more than City at their own stadium. In the second season, United had an average attendance of 12,165 more than City at their own stadium. In the third season, United had an average attendance of 10,109 more than City at their own stadium.
- United have a higher average attendance than City for every decade since the 1940′s.
- Between 1947 and the year before the Munich Air Disaster, there was an average of almost 7,000 more United fans attending games than City.
- City were a more successful club on the pitch than United in the 1970s, yet there was a difference of over 13,000 in our average attendances, with United the best supported club of the decade."

The clubs like United and Liverpool have a secure future. It is labelled as arrogance but the club as a whole is worth more than it possibly could be stripped down, other clubs didn't have that... only a few clubs in World football have it.

City dont and never will. they have big crowds now because they are winning.. all clubs have their share of glory supporters, but I think the scousers have shown many actually do stick around...