A cyclist to big up this year should be World Champion Mountain Bike Downhiller Steve Peat, the guy is a legend and an inspiration to thousands of kids (and grown-ups) who get out Mountain Biking every weekend, not just here but around the world where he is probably better known.
Sadly he is hardly heard of by the masses in this country due to our pathetic mainstream media.

Are you sure, Giggs is a year older than Farrell unless Farrell played some games at a year above.

There was also a survey done a few years ago by one of the universitys in Manchester concentrating on the support of Manchester United and Manchester City in Manchester. It showed that there were more season tickets holders with an M postcode at United than there were season ticket holders with any postcode at City. This has probably changed a lot in the few years since the Glazers have taken over. I have worked for over 10 years in Manchester in a variety of different organisations from factories to schools and all sorts of offices From this experience I would say there was 75-25% split in favour of United. In a lot of schools in the early 00's you would see the majority of kids in school with united tops on and only one or two City.

As for Salford the vast majority of them are United.



This is a lot more true of Liverpool than Manchester. Scousers like to stick together and don't like outsiders. Why to you think they gave all the woolies the bad jobs on the docks. Warrington lads have always been accepted by Mancunion United fans whether they were stood on the Stretford End, United Road or sat in K Stand as have many fans from different towns. It's probably due to the numbers who have travelled everywhere through the 70's and 80's. It doesn't matter where you were from as long as you were United.

I used to wear a Warrington scarf in the Stretford End and at away games with no problem at all.

Yes and if Nathan McAvoy had chosen football then we'd all be saying he would have been the best centre in the world ever if only he'd chosen league, McAvoy at junior level was being talked of as our equivalent to Mal Meninga.

To a degree it probably is a lot more true at Liverpool yes, particularly for Warrington lads and other "locals" from the surrounding area but not the city itself. I think that's because Scousers have a far stronger sense of identity than Mancs (I've lived in Manchester for seven years so I'm not being biased or derogatory when I say that but it is my perception) so the common mindset is Liverpool is Liverpool and everywhere else (including the rest of "Merseyside"icon_wink.gif is not.

It is still prevalent in Manchester though. At an Oasis gig at the cricket ground once my mate was chatting to a few lads who asked him where he was from. He replied 'Warrington' and was immediately shunned because 'you're practically a Scouser' (their words). The irony was they weren't even talking about football and he is actually a United fan.

The lads at work who go the matches are always moaning about Cockneys and other southern United fans too.

There is more and more of this going on at the moment but throughout to 70's, 80's and early 90's there was very little of this. I think nowadays it's more of a reaction to the Johnny Come Latelys from the Home Counties and the view that everyone south of Birmingham is a cockney They get most of the blame for Old Trafford being like a morgue most of the time (along with the Irish).