i told this to my educated brother who said ‘well theres certainly more in greater manchester area’ …pff, yeh whatever. It’s all bollocks.

I am now 43. I was born in Manchester, grew up in Manchester, went to school in Manchester & have worked in around 15 different jobs all based… in Manchester. I come from a Manchester family of 6 kids & now have 15 nephews & nieces. I had 5 aunties, 5 uncles & 17 cousins. As so rightly put in the article, not EVER in any of these or any other environments I have found myself in have I ever been in a minority of Reds (apart from when we used to be crammed into a corner of that dismal shithole in Moss Side on away days of course). Where I work now there are around 30 blokes. There’s about 3 who don’t have any interest in football full stop & there’s a few odd balls who support peole like Bolton. There’s 5 bitters, 3 of which are from Stockport – shock! (irritating bastards more than ever at the minute since their stupid club sold their souls & they just all bent over & welcomed it) & there’s 14 Reds. Out of them, about 10 are season ticket holders & ALL local lads.

One thing in the article that is wrong is that Cideh have only just started making noises about this since the Fergie dominance years – not true, they were saying these things from the 70′s when I was a kid.

I can remember when we got relegated. The funny thing is that even then they had an inferiority complex to a then 2nd division side. They bang on about their loyal fans but I know for a fact that through the 80′s they had a hard core of about 18,000. We were pullin the biggest crowds in the country as a 2nd division side.

These things get banded around all the time by blues & after a while even people who don’t like football have that opinion. Our man mountain midfield general Roy Keane made the biggest mistake of his time with us with his “prawn sandwich” comment as the whole football world latched onto that & linked it with the already popular lies.

The truth will always prevail eventually & for every Red reading this lets start it on Wednesday night. Not only the men on the pitch either. Old Trafford has to emulate our 2nd to none away following, sing the Reds on to the final & knock Stupid Cideh & their pond life fans right back down to where they belong. Come On Reds!