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If someone else tells you otherwise, tell them to shut up.

Stumbled upon the results of this survey which was conducted sometime back, when I was actually looking for something else. I remember voting in this survey myself! It’s worth spending a few minutes if you’re even remotely interested in football (soccer). Check out the results (PDF)

Some highlights:

– Manchester United are considered to be their main “rivals” by most sets of fans (surprise, surprise!)
– Over three-quarters of fans would rather thrash their rivals than beat them with a last minute winner. (though I cherish Gary Mac’s last minute winner at Goodison and Spud’s late winners at the theater of screams more than the, occasional, thrashings we handed out to those two under GH)
– 40% of fans don���t have a second team and 43% wouldn���t follow another club if their own one ceased to exist (!!!)

Read on for more such interesting results.

I hope not – I am talking about the Premiership of course.

Take a look at this “spooky” comparison between the runs of Liverpool and ManU over a 13 year period. Liverpool won 9 titles in 13 years at their peak, ManU have 8 in 12 now, with the years they won and didn’t overlapping perfectly. See below if you don’t get what I mean.

1976 LIVERPOOL 1993 MAN UTD
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