#ThereWillBeHaters that’s the hash tag a few of my Manchester United supporting Twitter follows and followers embrace. And it’s entirely true, with great popularity and spectacular achievement comes an omni-presence. And that ubiquitous appearance always polarizes and sparks a backlash.
Manchester United have about 680,000,000 fans world wide, the latest surveys claim, and that means lots of excessive media coverage.
Fans of other teams grow weary of that really quickly. Then of course you have the fact that Manchester United spend all that money taking the best players away from smaller clubs. This doesn’t it sit well with most of the football supporting world.
And of course, the big one, winning 20 championships. People hate the teams that seem to win all the time every year. Many people in general root for the underdog, the upstart, the rebellion. Most don’t care to root for the empire, the hegemony, the behemoth.
The Daily Mirror did a survey and they published their findings today. Behold the “Table of most hated clubs.”
Club | Average of percentages
Manchester United | 68
Chelsea | 65
Liverpool | 60
Man City | 53
See the rest of the table, as well as a description of how they made their findings here.
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