Abandon Utd - Find a new club

Chief123

Full Member
Joined
Dec 27, 2013
Messages
12,787
In a hypothetical scenario where Man Utd have been riddled with too much debt that the club has folded and ceased to exist, what do you do now?

Obviously it would be devestating for us all and God forbid it never happens, but being football fans we would naturally want to have an affiliation with a team.

We now have to move on and find a new team to give our blood, sweat and tears to. Which club would you go on to support instead? :)
 

gormless

Full Member
Joined
Jun 25, 2008
Messages
8,539
Location
comfortable and settled in my rut
Probably a local non league one. Couldn't' support another big team in the UK.

Oh and either Deportivo or Sevilla due to half my family being from Galicia and Andalucia. Seville probably, would give me an excuse to get out there on occasion. Amazing city
 

kirk buttercup

Full Member
Joined
Oct 20, 2016
Messages
2,484
Location
wickla!
I wouldn't support anybody else in the English Game I would watch the premiership with a passing interest but would probably have little interest in it without United .
 

kirk buttercup

Full Member
Joined
Oct 20, 2016
Messages
2,484
Location
wickla!
gormless said:
Probably a local non league one. Couldn't' support another big team in the UK.

Oh and either Deportivo or Sevilla due to half my family being from Galicia and Andalucia. Seville probably, would give me an excuse to get out there on occasion. Amazing city
Click to expand...
Deportivo have had some fall from Grace. they would be my team of Choice In Spain too
 

Chief123

Full Member
Joined
Dec 27, 2013
Messages
12,787
gormless said:
Probably a local non league one. Couldn't' support another big team in the UK.

Oh and either Deportivo or Sevilla due to half my family being from Galicia and Andalucia. Seville probably, would give me an excuse to get out there on occasion. Amazing city
Click to expand...
I randomly thought about this scenario after reading an article related to our current debt/loans. It would be extremely weird considering 95% of the football I watch is Premier league, but then not having a team to support would make it so tough. I would naturally want to support a premier league team but I still have no idea who I would eventually fall for!
 

crossy1686

career ending
Joined
Jun 5, 2010
Messages
31,630
Location
Manchester/Stockholm
I'd just go all in and glory support Madrid or something. If I'm getting a choice I'm not setting myself up for a life time of misery.
 

Chief123

Full Member
Joined
Dec 27, 2013
Messages
12,787
crossy1686 said:
I'd just go all in and glory support Madrid or something. If I'm getting a choice I'm not setting myself up for a life time of misery.
Click to expand...
To be fair, I think I'd probably do something similar! :D All aboard the Glory Hunting boat. I mean why would you start afresh and choose someone like Newcastle where your just destined for hammer blows one after another!
 

ivaldo

Mediocre Horse Whisperer, s'up wid chew?
Joined
Nov 15, 2012
Messages
28,699
Norwich. I now live 20 minutes from the stadium. They're a well run club with a good fanbase.
 

Vault Dweller

Correctly predicted Italy to win Euro 2020
Joined
May 26, 2016
Messages
6,602
Location
Vault 88, The Commonwealth
Rangers due to family ties. I love rugby and golf as other sports and I already follow Glasgow Warriors and Canterbury Crusaders from New Zealand, so those too.
 

carvajal

Full Member
Joined
Jan 20, 2015
Messages
11,084
Location
Spain
Supports
Real Madrid
crossy1686 said:
I'd just go all in and glory support Madrid or something. If I'm getting a choice I'm not setting myself up for a life time of misery.
Click to expand...
wise choice, let's go to some random thread to repeat that we have 13 European cups ,then we'll pick a miserable team and steal the fan's favorite player :drool:
 

glazed

Eats diamonds to beat thermodynamics
Joined
Sep 30, 2012
Messages
7,636
I'd take up marathon running or some other boring as fek sport.
 

Bastian

Full Member
Joined
Jul 16, 2015
Messages
18,530
Supports
Mejbri
I actually did contemplate this when rumours of a Saudi takeover were surfacing. Couldn't come up with an alternative. I'd probably lose a lot of interest in football and become a St Pauli supporter.
 

Gopher Brown

Full Member
Joined
Jul 16, 2013
Messages
4,539
I mean, we all arbitrarily picked Man Utd based on what your dad told you, location or familiarity in a publicity sense. I chose them because my mates supported them when I was 6, why did they pick them - probably because they won stuff.

Could I change now? Not a fecking chance. I’d sooner lose all interest in football.

I’m a Man Utd fan, I’m not a football fan.
 

lemmiwink

Full Member
Joined
Oct 29, 2014
Messages
110
I would pick Leeds so I could spend the rest of my life hating myself. Or Le Havre, cause why not?
 

bosnian_red

Worst scout to ever exist
Joined
Aug 13, 2011
Messages
57,913
Location
Canada
No idea. Would probably just have teams I like and prefer to win/others don't like but I doubt I'd support any other club like United. Maybe over time. Would likely be play style related and how they're run and how they build their teams. Like Leicester over the last few years, there is loads to admire there. Spurs I always found annoying and never liked them, same with Arsenal and Chelsea, Liverpool and City obviously rivals and forever hatred. I'd still watch the premier league all the time so I'm sure I would grow to like/cheer for some other team. Maybe I'd go down the route of whoever equally dislikes both City and Liverpool.
 

AaronRedDevil

Full Member
Joined
Jun 28, 2018
Messages
9,563
Growing up I had one favourite team per league. Ac Milan, Valencia, Dortmund and Celtic. So either one of those. But I'll replace Valencia with RM.
 

Revan

Assumptionman
Joined
Dec 19, 2011
Messages
49,575
Location
London
Probably Bayern considering that I will live there and they always win titles.

Would probably not watch EPL anymore though.

More likely though, I would stop watching club football and maybe turning only for World Cups and Euros, asking my friends for whom plays every player.
 

big rons sovereign

New Member
Joined
Mar 7, 2015
Messages
6,160
PNE. Hometown team, used to work for them so watched them a lot during that time. I dare say their gate would dramatically increase if United folded.
 

Red Stone

Full Member
Joined
Jan 30, 2011
Messages
8,766
Location
NZ
Probably some plucky middling team from the Championship that plays entertaining football. I'd think I'd enjoy hoping for promotion every season, and then trying to avoid relegation if the team ever actually made it.
 

Lay

Correctly predicted Italy to win Euro 2020
Joined
Jan 29, 2013
Messages
19,928
Location
England
Probably get more invested in my local team (Wycombe). I’d support Villarreal/Atlético and Roma I guess. Always had a soft spot for those teams
 

Steve Bruce

Full Member
Joined
Aug 19, 2008
Messages
1,350
To be honest, I'd be finished with English football. I'm already a fully paid up member of linfield fc & been a season ticket holder for the guts of 25 years. So I would be fully concentrated on linfield.

But hopefully this isn't an issue in my lifetime & beyond. I get to 1 or 2 United games a season(this season I didn't get to any although I had a couple of games lined up before the suspension of the league) and go to linfield games home & away the rest of the season & have went on several European games as well.
 

RUCK4444

New Member
Joined
Feb 3, 2015
Messages
9,553
Location
$¥$¥$¥$¥$
Heaven forbid. I wouldn’t support any other club, I couldn’t.

It would almost certainly kill off the last of my already fading love for the game.

Id sign out of this place for the last time, pack in my sky and BT Sport subscription and turn to booze in an effort to fill the Manchester United sized hole in my life.

I don’t like this one, got any other games? :( :lol:
 

Cheimoon

Made of cheese
Scout
Joined
Jun 22, 2020
Messages
14,334
Location
Canada
Supports
no-one in particular
carvajal said:
wise choice, let's go to some random thread to repeat that we have 13 European cups ,then we'll pick a miserable team and steal the fan's favorite player :drool:
Click to expand...
Is that a cheeky reference to Pogba? :p
 

Chipper

Adulterer.
Joined
Oct 25, 2017
Messages
5,576
Altrincham if any. Used to go when United were away mostly as a kid and a few times in my teens as well. Haven't been in a long time though, as in this millennium.

Still look out for thier results from time to time. Not every week, more like once a month or so and keep an eye on the table. Just got promoted back to the National League which is where they mostly were when I used to go and see them. Been as low as the 7th tier in recent years so it's good to see them in the 5th, where they belong in my mind.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.