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Manchester United are in the top ten for having the UK's most foul mouthed fans

Thursday, 23 November 2023 at 11:58

By Simon Drury

United were ranked sixth with supporters

With football in full swing this year, emotions are running high among fans when it comes to supporting their favourite team.

Swearing and cursing is all too common when the matches are on, but which team’s loyal fans have the foulest mouths?

Ticketgum.com conducted a Reddit analysis, taking to the number of each football team's subreddit page to determine which team’s fans swear the most.

United were ranked sixth with supporters. Newcastle United FC is the Premier League team with the sweariest fans, cussing every 116 words on average.

Celtic FC club fans are the most foul mouthed, averaging a swear every 100 words in their subreddit. That is a whopping 805 swear words out of over 80,000 words analysed. 

Following in second is another Scottish club, Rangers FC, with fans averaging a swear word per 104 words. The team’s fans total 3,097 swears out of 322,509 words analysed. 

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