I grew up watching United and have been a fan since Gordon Strachan and Bryan Robson were running around for them, Liverpool were the greatest club in England and Sir Alex Ferguson was still north of the border working his magic with Aberdeen. United have been a big club for a long, long time and the basis for their current overall strength is not on the back of oil money, but on the back of success built and paid for by the club and its supporters. That they have been able to harness that during a period in which ridiculous amounts of money have been pumped into the game is a clear case of business acumen and making hay at the right time. Yes, United have a truck load of debt thanks to the Glazers using the club to pay off their takeover, but the business was always capable of supporting itself and growing without the input from oligarchs, sheiks and bankers. To say that this club is more generic than the blue crew is to thumb your nose at history and fact.
People may get all whiny about United scoring undeserved late equalizers in 'Fergie Time' but if you are still pushing hard in the 90th minute you deserve whatever success you may have in that period. If more teams showed more belief and fight perhaps they too would pinch equalizers and winners at the depth, instead of whining about it. United are playing some average football at the minute and folk like to kick them when they are down, no problem there. But if their teams cant close out a game when leading in injury time perhaps they should be looking at what they are doing and not at some imaginary influence on the game.