ARCHIVE: Do You Come From Manchester?

It looks pretty cast iron that the Red Filth are ‘THE CLUB’ when it comes to having fans around the country. Something we’re all REALLY JEALOUS of... NOT!

Another chart (this issues full of ‘em) that was compiled recently in one of those two and a half quid footie mags, showed a list of towns up and down the country with the best five selling footie shirts in each town. The following statistics won’t shock any of you...

In Newcastle the fifth best selling shirt is the Scum’s.

In London the Red Filth shirt was ‘Best Seller’.

In Birmingham the Scum came fourth after both Villa shirts and the England home top.

In Nottingham the Urinals came second behind Forest.

In Bristol the best selling footie shirt was... United’s, quite obviously!!

In Glasgow and Edinburgh the Filth didn’t get a look in with Rangers and Celtic in top spots (surprise!).

In Halifax, Yorkshire, the Urinal shirt was top seller.

In Truro, Cornwall, have a guess which top sold best... that’s right, it was the red Shite!

In Worcester just south of Birmingham, Villa’s top sold best, only just as right up there behind it was of course... Man. Utd.

In Manchester... and this is the best of the lot, United’s home and away shirts didn’t even get into the top five. In fact Manchester City came in first and second with their respective home and away tops.

It would be interesting to know what the best selling shirt is in Nairobi, Kuala Lumpur, Alaska, Tokyo and the Australian Outback... no it fuckin’ wouldn’t, ‘cos we all know what it would be!!

First appeared in White Love Issue 18, October 1998.