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Our pre-season game against the Bees was crammed with quality strikes! Watch all four amazing goals now Our fans do need to sit. So in the future, should any legislation changes come about that do allow safe standing, we would be in a good position to facilitate that. We've obviously resurfaced the pitch, hopefully that'll get us three years on the run as Premier League Grounds Team of the Year. That'll be good for our players but also for the quality of the visual product, both for broadcasting and here in the stadium.

And because they're LED, it reduces our carbon footprint. United Review takes a close look at five Old Trafford friendlies from the past. Gemma Thompson reports from Old Trafford as fans return for our first home pre-season game. Despite their relatively new stature among the traditional powerhouses of world football, Paris Saint-Germain's online presence is considerable, with just under million followers. The French giants have social media clout that is comparable to that of Bayern Munich and bigger than that of Arsenal and Manchester City.

Seven-time European Cup-winners AC Milan have to make do with a place outside of the top 10 with just over 40 million combined followers. Milan's following means that they occupy the same sort of ground as their rivals Inter, Premier League side Tottenham and Brazilian giants Flamengo, who all have followings in the region of million. As the above table shows, it is probably not wise to judge the global popularity of a club based solely on the size of its stadium. While Barcelona and Real Madrid are in the top 10 in terms of stadium capacity, the likes of Manchester United, Liverpool, Juventus and Bayern Munich are all conspicuous by their absence.

South Africa's Kaiser Chiefs and Mexico's Club America are undoubtedly the biggest clubs in their respective countries, but their appeal does not extend beyond their borders in the same way as other clubs. Indeed, only two of the top 10 most-followed clubs online - Real Madrid and Barcelona - feature on the list of clubs with biggest stadiums. You can see the top 20 biggest stadiums in the world here.

The most popular football jerseys vary from country to country, so Flamengo shirts may sell well in Brazil or Aston Villa shirts may do well in parts of England but not so well outside of those countries.

Last week's draw between Manchester United and Real Madrid was "the match the world wants to see", according to the Spanish team's coach, Jose Mourinho. In fact, Manchester United claim any of their matches is of interest to one in 10 of the world's seven billion people. What is the evidence for this claim? Even the most ardent opponent of Manchester United would acknowledge that the club has fans right around the world. But the statement that it has a global following of million adults - out of a total five billion adults in the world - is still quite staggering.

This is not just a number picked out of thin air, though. Manchester United used a market research company, Kantar, to carry out a worldwide survey. The company polled nearly 54, adults in 39 countries between June and August Some were surveyed face to face, but most answered questions online.

It then extrapolated from these survey results to produce a figure for each of those 39 countries - and for the rest of the world - taking into account such things as the popularity of football in these countries, and whether players born in them had played for Manchester United in the past. Of the million figure, Kantar says roughly half million live in the Asia Pacific region, million in the Middle East and Africa, 90 million in Europe and 71 million in the Americas.