I started supporting United 7 years ago, or should i say, i started supporting Beckham 7 years ago, when i started watching soccer for the first time on tv. United were the only team i saw all the time and it was a lot safer to support them, rather than any of the local teams. I am sure you heard about what happens to little kids with scarfs of their local teams in former USSR countries.
So after 2-3 years, i just couldn't switch a team anymore, no matter to who, even when Beckham left, i didn't really care. It's my tv's fault that i support a team, which i never saw in reality, however living in Canada now and monthly buying their magazines, merchandise and shirts is the most i can give to them at the age of 16 and i know that that money i spend every year will help them. Now it feels like i was born in the wrong country and that really i should have been from Manchster.
BTW i have a lot of friends that don't really support any team really strong, but they all liked United before the treble season, after that, so many more people started talking about them, so they all switched teams and now i am stuck with my best friends that like Liverpool, Leeds, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Chelsea(the guy supports them only because Roman is russian, what an idiot, he is the one suffering from Roman and doesn't realize it) and Barcelona. Whenever i visit them in summer, we all start big arguments and then try to settle everything in a ISS tournaments, so it's not so bad.