My recollection of Utd pre-Sky was that they always seemed to be more on the ball commercially though. Of course relatively speaking it was nothing like we have now, but back then Utd seemed to have more nous when it came to getting their name 'out there'.Dio wrote:I'm not sure about the commercial part. Before the Premiership (and the Sky money, around about the same time), I don't know if it would have been possible to build a commercial entity the way Kenyon did at Man U.
It's more frustration on my part I suppose: LFC could have done a whole lot more but seemed to be content to sstay in the 50's-60's mind set. There ws a story about how all the lightbulbs at Anfield where changed down to 40w to save money! Dunno how true that was but it sort of encapsulates what I felt our postition was.
) and I think that it is partly to do with Munich and partly because United were the first in Europe in teh 50's so were exposed early. And, of course, they had a pretty good team in those days then too, so the "Beckham" effect was present then as well.
