Namrata Yadav fan interview from Man Utd Women v Man City match programme

It wasn’t as simple to comply with United again then. I lived in New Delhi – I moved to Bangalore 4 years in the past – and I’d examine newspapers and browse the web to maintain up, and ultimately I used to be capable of watch a couple of video games on-line. As I acquired older I began following the US ladies’s nationwide workforce nevertheless it was in the course of the Girls’s World Cup in 2019 when a pal of mine put in our WhatsApp group that Jackie Groenen had scored [in the semis for the Netherlands]. It’s humorous, we’d by no means talked about ladies’s soccer earlier than – ever! – however as Jackie had simply joined United it simply acquired us each excited, and I’ve adopted United Girls carefully ever since. 

I’ve by no means been to the UK however I’m hoping to recover from subsequent Might. I’ll need to try to make it for the soccer season, however I’m instructed I wouldn’t prefer it any earlier within the season, as I’m used to 25-35 diploma warmth each day! It might be superb to see the gamers within the flesh, and correctly meet a number of the folks I’ve been chatting to for a couple of years. 

United Girls has a powerful fan group. For the boys’s workforce, there are hundreds of thousands of followers who, like me, can’t really go to video games, and as such it’s simple to really feel such as you’re on the periphery of the fandom. However with the ladies’s workforce, though there are far fewer of us, all of us really feel linked, and we will talk about our opinions with out the noise that may encompass those that comply with the boys’s aspect.