What made you support United?

[The Cat]

1976 watcing a documentary. Oddly enough I became the only supporter in my school which I liked a lot.

Everyone else in those days seemed to be Arsenal, Leeds, Everton, Liverpool.

 

[Forevergiggs1]

The 1979 FA cup final. Losing 2-0 with a few minutes to go and equalising in the last minute. Didn't matter that Arsenal went up the other end and scored the winner. That fighting spirit to get back into the game had me hooked and here we are today.

 

[pacifictheme]

My dad. Just got lucky.

 

[CassiusClaymore]

Dad. I remember him painting the house red, white and black when I was a kid (well the outside....drainpipes, windowframes, door etc...). Took me to a few games and I was hooked. We used to just drive up on the day and get tickets at the gate then.

I vividly remember us playing Nottingham Forest when Keano was playing for them and he made the wanker gesture at us during the warm up. I think that might have been the last time he took me as a kid actually because we lost that day and the results had got progressively worse since I started going so I reckon he thought I was bringing bad luck.

Been with my brother plenty of times too and was luckily enough to be at both Rooney and Ronaldo's debut games for us.

 

[Scarecrow]

2003 CL second leg at OT against Real. Watched it with my grandfather who was a big Real fan, so I picked the other team. We came back from 1:3 to win it. Beckham scored two.

 

[dove]

I got a Total Club Manager 2003 game and I just picked United without knowing anything about the Premier League really. I got attached to the team and started following results in real life.

 

[Jacko21]

My mum is a big City fan.

And my dad was pretty indifferent about football when I was a kid, but as a cameraman, he used to be involved in broadcasting United games and worked on a SAF documentary in the 90’s - so he brought home memorabilia etc. I guess that planted the seed.

I went to a few games at OT as a kid and was hooked. My dad is much more interested in football now too.

Despite our current plight, I try to remind myself of how lucky I am to have grown up 15 minutes from Old Trafford, home to one of the greatest and most successful sporting institutions in the world - and having been a season ticket holder throughout one of our most successful eras. I still love the feeling when you walk out onto the terraces. That’ll never change.

 

[OJKernow]

Born into it, with my Dad being a massive Utd fan.

Early memories are Hughes and Sharpe being my favourite players, and the '96 cup final being a defining moment in my blossoming love for the club at the time.

 

[Bestietom]

My Dad and 2 older brothers. Went to my first game versus spurs in 1959. We got fleeced but still carried on going to games, and still have a lot of programmes from the 60s and 70s.

 

[Toddler]

Beckhams free kicks and the red shirt. That's pretty much it. Since i was six or seven.

 

[Negative Red]

My Dad was a regular at Old Trafford during the 70's and 80's (before I was born), but United were never forced on me. It was mainly through watching videos of the clubs history that got me hooked and in hindsight it probably helped that United were doing well at the time. The first match I remember watching (albeit on TV) was the 1991 Cup Winners Cup Final versus Barcelona.

 

[AttackAttackAttack]

The movie Eurotrip. Living in America we didn’t have many games on tv but I always enjoyed watching any match that was on. I was in college when the movie came out and I knew it was time to to pick a team. Those crazy hooligans sold me on United!

 

[Slon]

My first post here although been with the site for 12 years now. Figured out that this could be good first post.

In 1996 was watching some random news show in Poland and heard that Man Utd. Lost to Fenerbache and that this was first home loss in European cups for Utd. I though that the club must something special and started to follow it.

Back them I was supporting Real, AC Milan and Bayern as well, mainly due to particular players.

Now I’m a diehard Utd. fan and barely watch football if they aren’t playing.

 

[arthurka]

Well my Grandfather took me to Old Trafford for the first time in ´84, since then really.
He though he must have failed miserably as a parent with his two oldest sons supporting Liverpool (my father) and Leeds he took his youngest son and his grandson couple of times to Old Trafford to stamp us for life.
So haven´t looked back since.

 

[Ballache]

Dad, never had a choice really.

 

[Dr Fink]

Since the classic 1977 FA Cup final - beating the Dippers. I then got bought a United kit after requesting it for my birthday. It wasn't until many, many years later did I realise how significant that game was.

As a nine year old, I'm ashamed to say I wobbled in my support duirng the 1979 FA cup final.......what a rollercoaster ride that was! :-)

 

[Carl]

So what's your story and how did you come about supporting the best football club on the planet?

Go...

My dad. I was never given a choice.

 

[Relevated]

My old man said be a city fan...

 

[FcUnitedRed]

Shared a room with my brother who was 5 years older then me. He already had united posters all over our wall, Watched Shef Weds V United at OT in '85 when Big Ron was in charge, mark hughes scored for us and we ended up losing 2-1.

Loved them ever since.

 

[poleglass red]

Norman Whiteside, I was a Belfast boy and Whiteside was my fav player.

 

[bsCallout]

Scholes is ginger(& good). I'm ginger. Serious.

 

[kafta]

I was 12, back in 1999, and luckily i started watching when we had that season. I started watching all the time as i loved the football they played, and it was the Giggs goal vs Arsenal that got me hooked. And i'm still hooked today, always will be.

Being from Lebanon, i can't really go to games regularly. I made my first trip to Old Trafford back in 2013 when we lost to Madrid. Silver lining though, i got to meet Sir Alex and talk to him for around 5 minutes. It was really a dream come true.

 

[Marty1968]

First game of 1989/90 season. Arsenal won the league the year before with a last minute winner. United then beat Arsenal 4-1 on the opening day of the season and decided they must be great if they've just beaten the champions. Turned out they were still a bit shite but won the FA Cup and the rest is history.

 

[Handsome Devil]

'66 and football fever gripped the country. Stopped playing with my Action Man and paid attention. I was taken with Bobby, my brother liked Jackie, hence I opted to support United and he went with Leeds (I was the lucky one!)
Didn't even know about Georgie then...that was the icing on the cake.

 

[Guv77]

Mine would have to be watching the Spain 82 World Cup aged 5 and witnessing that goal by Bryan Robson vs France.
for some reason that moment has stayed with me forever, and have followed Man Utd ever since. To me Robbo was always a true legend.

 

[Farfetched]

Our next door neighbour was the only one in our street with a colour television. We, along with other neighbours were invited round to watch the 1968 European cup final. I was 9 at the time and party and carnival atmosphere was fantastic and stuck with me. It was this feeling and memory that lead me to support United. There was a great feeling watching football in the 1960s England winning the World Cup in 1966, Celtic winning the European cup in 1967 and then United at Wembley it was just brilliant.

 

[The Cat]

Our next door neighbour was the only one in our street with a colour television. We, along with other neighbours were invited round to watch the 1968 European cup final. I was 9 at the time and party and carnival atmosphere was fantastic and stuck with me. It was this feeling and memory that lead me to support United. There was a great feeling watching football in the 1960s England winning the World Cup in 1966, Celtic winning the European cup in 1967 and then United at Wembley it was just brilliant.

Nice story that - you lucky bugger.

 

[TRUERED89]

Our next door neighbour was the only one in our street with a colour television. We, along with other neighbours were invited round to watch the 1968 European cup final. I was 9 at the time and party and carnival atmosphere was fantastic and stuck with me. It was this feeling and memory that lead me to support United. There was a great feeling watching football in the 1960s England winning the World Cup in 1966, Celtic winning the European cup in 1967 and then United at Wembley it was just brilliant.

Amazing, rather jealous you got to witness all of that too .

PS: Your neighbour must of felt like a right hero with the first colour TV on your street, good times.

 

[Gary_Walsh_Nou_Camp_Hell]

Didn't have a choice. Was a fan before I even have memories. Parents took me from being very young in the mid 1980s

 

[the gafferjs]

A lot gets said about how a lot of fans are glory hunters etc and how all non local fans have these "stories" as to why they love United, no story or reason is as important as the other, each one is personal to that person!

For me being from Aberdeen and coming from a family of Celtic Fans I never really supported anyone as a really young child, my Dad played Football to a high level as a Semi Pro so I didnt really notice anything else. It was around 1993 just before I was 10 I started to get more into the Pro game would watch the odd Aberdeen game purely because I didnt like the Old Firm, I then discovered through looking through family effects that my Dad had the opportunity to sign for Manchester United when he was 15, he got homesick and stayed here, I am biased but I think he would have made a career as a Pro if he had the ambition but he is an enigma of a man who just wanted to do his own thing, still does, not saying he would have played for United but at least somewhere lower perhaps!, of course, we all know of stories like this but twinned with the Fergie effect/link with Aberdeen I started to follow United and have done so off and an on for years. I am involved with football myself so that always take priority. I will never forget the days growing up in the 90s watching United, for many 99 in Barcelona is the pinnancle but for some reason I always loved the ending to the 1995/96 season best because it was the start of what was to come in the years after.

I do not profess to be a big fan or a better fan than others, this is just my personal story!

 

[Lash]

Dad was a fan and took me to my first game (home to leicester), went 2-0 down to Steve Guppy, but Becks saved the day with a draw, but had a great time regardless. My old man was scared I wouldn't want to go back. Ole was my favourite player when he came to United, I had curly ginger hair, so some sort of affinity to him. First shirt had his name on the back (to my dad's dismay when you paid by the letter). I vividly remember truly hating Dortmund for knocking us out of the CL. Subsequently rumoured we'd accepted a bid from Spurs, so was devastated, but he stayed and then went on to score the winner in the CL final. After that was hard not to support them.

 

[TRUERED89]

Dad was a fan and took me to my first game (home to leicester), went 2-0 down to Steve Guppy, but Becks saved the day with a draw, but had a great time regardless. My old man was scared I wouldn't want to go back. Ole was my favourite player when he came to United, I had curly ginger hair, so some sort of affinity to him. First shirt had his name on the back (to my dad's dismay when you paid by the letter). I vividly remember truly hating Dortmund for knocking us out of the CL. Subsequently rumoured we'd accepted a bid from Spurs, so was devastated, but he stayed and then went on to score the winner in the CL final. After that was hard not to support them.

Ahh the treble year, that last minute equaliser was a freekick right iirc ? The whole country (excluding Utd fans) absolutely hated Becks that summer due to the Simeone situation.

 

[Saddy]

Born in Bolton March 1958 so there must be a "Busby Babes" influence there but both my brothers supported Bolton.

We moved into the Manchester area mid 60s and it was either Best, Charlton, Law or Summerbee, Bell, Lee - then the 1968 European Cup clinched it. United all the way from that evening !

I started going to live matches in the 74/75 season 2nd division champions and it was electrifying attacking football and then going to watch us at Wembley - 70/80s watching United was a roller coaster but we had plenty of highs and the crowds kept flooding in. That's what nailed it for me..God help me it could have been Bolton ?!!!

 

[Lash]

Ahh the treble year, that last minute equaliser was a freekick right iirc ?

Precisely!

 

[FrankDrebin]

They were winning everything so I just thought I'd support them.

 

[Neil67]

I moved to Manchester 1976 when I was 7, my parents had a pub in Ardwick.

A young lad that that worked in the supported United and told me the story about The Busby Babes.

Went to my first match in 1977.

 

[manichester]

Going to a game in the 1950,s with my Uncle and watching them play Real Madrid in the 1957

 

[Stacks]

The little devil in me

 

[Volumiza]

My Dad, a Rams fan, used to take me to watch Derby County at the old Baseball Ground most weeks. I was 8 in 1983 and Man Utd came to the Baseball Ground in an FA Cup match. Norman Whiteside scored the only goal of the match but it was Bryan Robson I was transfixed by. I went into the Baseball Ground a Rams fan and left a Utd fan much to my Dad's disgust.

Never looked back. Glory Hunter. Plastic. Whatever. Fell in love there and then.

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Some of the reasons on here, deary me . Me personally I never had a choice, it was United or no one! Either that or get beat up by family for being a traitor. I didn't jump on the band wagon for glory reasons or because I saw a particular goal/player, United was literally all I knew since a baby.

Ooh top red there everyone, look!