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The Best Team In The World. Manchester United Football Club.
Football
Since the late 1990s, the club has been one of the richest in the world, and until recently had the top revenue of any football club for quite a few years running. Nearly overnight, English football re-invented itself as a glamorous sport with immense commercial appeal. The enormous power and reach of television is turning football into one of the world's most lucrative sports. The club is one of the most successful clubs in England, having won the FA Premier League/Football League fifteen times, FA Cup eleven times and the European Cup/UEFA Champions League twice.
Cup
They also became the first English teams to participate in the European Cup, at the request of the FA, who had deprived Chelsea the same chance the prior season, and got as far as the semi-final, only to be knocked out by Real Madrid. Tragedy struck the next season, when the plane transporting the team home from a European Cup match crashed on take-off at a refuelling break in Munich, Germany. The plane skidded off the end of the runway, through a fence and into an unoccupied house. Despite the accident, they reached the FA Cup final again, where they lost to Bolton Wanderers. Manchester United have won silverware on a regular basis throughout their proud and thriving history and on the domestic front have won the both the old First Division Championship and the Premier League, the old Second Division, and the FA Cup and League Cup. By the time Matt Busby left in 1969 United had won 5 First Division titles, 2 FA Cup Finals and of course became the earliest English team to win the European Cup in 68.
Fans
When Manchester United went to Thailand in 1997, thousands of United fans went to the national stadium in Bangkok to see their heroes in the flesh; but the nearest a lot of The Clubs Asian supporters got to viewing their team is on national televisions, where the whole British Premiership is promoted almost daily.
Up to 67,500 fans regularly pack into Old Trafford to see Manchester United play football. Like mentioned before, the biggest group of fans can be found in Asia. This has enabled Manchester United to create an interactive, on-line football society that will become the ultimate match and club experience for all its fans, on match days, during the build up, and then the after-match examination. Maintaining their position could not have been done without the fans worldwide that have turned into United-consumers in the meantime. Of course, when in Manchester, Manchester United football club is one of the first things that jumps to mind for nearly everyone, so a visit to their stadium at Old Trafford is a common pilgrimage for fans.
