Nick Harris
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10 appearances
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first heard Feb 2013
last heard Feb 2013
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Well, according to the survey, I mean, in South Korea, I think it was a third of the population.
Now, Manchester United, until relatively recently, had a South Korean player called Park Ji-sung.
It would not be surprising that Manchester United would be followed, in the loosest sense, by an enormous amount of people.
However, how can it be that you can claim 15 million followers in a nation who are fans of that club, and yet a million or fewer of them can actually be bothered even to watch the games on television?
Well, the owners wanted to sell a portion of Manchester United's stock on the New York Stock Exchange.
They needed to make Manchester United an attractive proposition, particularly to American investors.
American sport particularly can be quite insular.
Sports fans seem to think that, you know, globally...
The NBA, basketball and NFL are global sports, but of course they're not.
To be able to produce a figure where they can actually say 659 million people around the world follow our team, that's probably what they wanted to do here, to ram home quite how global football is.
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