History is important but you conveniently omit (arguably) the biggest reason and that is massive marketing in China and USA. Without disrespect to them but they are not supporting United because of history. Don't know how to even describe them following them. Maybe brainless is the word.
Same shit as with marketing crap products that sell worldwide.
Haha 'conveniently omit'? Yeah you got me there...
Uniteds history is the main reason they are so big, the Munich disaster for example and being shown in Asia etc at a time when they were a huge success domestically.
The marketing at Man Utd was fuck all in the 80s etc when they were seen as one of if not biggest club in world.
The biggest clubs world wide tend to have been he most successful in the biggest leagues not those with the best marketing dept to get them to that stage.