Rage against the machine

We anticipate making multiple posts on this one because the first sight of this Washington Post homage to Manchester United Football Club is driving us mad. Let us be upfront -- we are Liverpool fans, which puts us part of that Anyone But United group descibed in the article (although while we hate Man Utd, we expect to like X-Men Utd). But let's also put some facts on the table. Consider the following claim:
Manchester United, the English soccer team, is probably the wealthiest, winningest, most popular professional sports team in the world.

Now consider the number of times various clubs have won Europe's elite club competition, the Champions Cup. Real Madrid 9; Liverpool 4, Ajax (Amsterdam) 4; Nottingham Forest 2 and the world's winningest team, Man United? Er, also 2.
More thoughts to follow.....