Dean Smith - Confirmed

[jwarry]

How did they re-invent bloody Spurs, of all clubs, as a big club?

It is incredible, and I know it's a well trodden path, but being in London is a massive advantage when it comes to getting rich people and/or tourists to part with silly money to watch a game of football.

So how did a shite hole like Manchester get popular?

[Ad@m]

How did they re-invent bloody Spurs, of all clubs, as a big club?

It is incredible, and I know it's a well trodden path, but being in London is a massive advantage when it comes to getting rich people and/or tourists to part with silly money to watch a game of football.

So how did a shite hole like Manchester get popular?

When Man United started winning everything?

The question was how an absolute non-entity like Spurs can get away charging big club prices. The answer, to a huge extent, is because they're in London. They wouldn't be charging that if they were in any other city in the country, that's for certain.

[ChicagoLion]

How did they re-invent bloody Spurs, of all clubs, as a big club?

It is incredible, and I know it's a well trodden path, but being in London is a massive advantage when it comes to getting rich people and/or tourists to part with silly money to watch a game of football.

So how did a shite hole like Manchester get popular?

Munich.

[Sexual Ealing]

No need.

[Ian.]

Absolutely, no need for that.

When I moved down here to sunny Devon in ‘83, I couldn’t believe the amount of Man Utd supporters here. It was probably every child in my class bar one or two. I think it all stemmed from their parents supporting them in the George Best years and not following their own local teams like Exeter or Torquay.

[gpbarr]

That’s disgusting. Completely out of order

[N'ZMAV]

How did they re-invent bloody Spurs, of all clubs, as a big club?

It is incredible, and I know it's a well trodden path, but being in London is a massive advantage when it comes to getting rich people and/or tourists to part with silly money to watch a game of football.

So how did a shite hole like Manchester get popular?

Munich.

VAR are reviewing that one.

[CT]

That’s disgusting. Completely out of order

I’ll second that.

[VILLA MOLE]

i wasn’t born , but the impression i have from people who were , that after this horrific disaster , that a number of people were drawn to the club , especially with them rebuilding and going on to win the European Cup .  it is an iconic story

[Sexual Ealing]

i wasn’t born , but the impression i have from people who were , that after this horrific disaster , that a number of people were drawn to the club , especially with them rebuilding and going on to win the European Cup .  it is an iconic story

That's the way to express that thought.

[Jon Crofts]

How did they re-invent bloody Spurs, of all clubs, as a big club?

It is incredible, and I know it's a well trodden path, but being in London is a massive advantage when it comes to getting rich people and/or tourists to part with silly money to watch a game of football.

So how did a shite hole like Manchester get popular?

Munich.

Keep that shit up and you can have some time off.

[ChicagoLion]

How did they re-invent bloody Spurs, of all clubs, as a big club?

It is incredible, and I know it's a well trodden path, but being in London is a massive advantage when it comes to getting rich people and/or tourists to part with silly money to watch a game of football.

So how did a shite hole like Manchester get popular?

Munich.

Keep that shit up and you can have some time off.

I wasn’t trying to be offensive but I understood that a surge in support happened after that terrible event.
If I am wrong, sorry.

[AV82EC]

i wasn’t born , but the impression i have from people who were , that after this horrific disaster , that a number of people were drawn to the club , especially with them rebuilding and going on to win the European Cup .  it is an iconic story

That's the way to express that thought.

Exactly, they got quite rightly huge amounts of sympathy from the nation and I think a lot of it stuck and then they built on it with the Best Law Charlton era just as TV started to have an influence which really cemented the nationwide support. To win the European Cup 10 years after was some sort of justice for them just like our story just afterwards. We even managed to copy getting relegated 5 years after winning it. Now if we could just copy their trophy count things would be looking up.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

i wasn’t born , but the impression i have from people who were , that after this horrific disaster , that a number of people were drawn to the club , especially with them rebuilding and going on to win the European Cup .  it is an iconic story

That was pretty well the way my Dad explained it. I'm old enough to remember their 1968 European Cup win, this was really the culmination of Busby rebuidling from the ashes of Munich and was at a time when we all supported other home clubs exploits in European competition. This is the iconic story that made the club  Manchester United known worldwide.

What followed from the 1990s onwards was an extremely slick marketing exercise which established the brand Manchester United worldwide.


 

[ChicagoLion]

i wasn’t born , but the impression i have from people who were , that after this horrific disaster , that a number of people were drawn to the club , especially with them rebuilding and going on to win the European Cup .  it is an iconic story

That was pretty well the way my Dad explained it. I'm old enough to remember their 1968 European Cup win, this was really the culmination of Busby rebuidling from the ashes of Munich and was at a time when we all supported other home clubs exploits in European competition. This is the iconic story that made the club  Manchester United known worldwide.

What followed from the 1990s onwards was an extremely slick marketing exercise which established the brand Manchester United worldwide.

Exactly.