There were a lot of soccer fans in a decidedly-red Big House for Saturday’s International Champions Cup tussle between Real Madrid and Manchester United.
Just how red was it? Not very, if you trust the folks at Spanish newspaper MARCA (Full marks to The 90th minute for picking up on this and shooting the info out to the world).
Here’s one of a pair of photos we posted from Saturday’s match:
Today’s attendance: 109,318, beating the previous high of 101,799 for a soccer match in the USA. #mutour pic.twitter.com/B35iAokkod
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) August 2, 2014
Here’s how MARCA readers saw it:

And side-by-side: Since some will surely state that Manchester United doctored their photo to bring out the red, here’s a telling shot courtesy of the University of Michigan:
Hanging with 109,318 of our newest friends! #soldout #recordbreaking #ICC2014 pic.twitter.com/FEGNOYyeH6
— UniversityofMichigan (@umich) August 2, 2014
Come on now, Marca. It’s 2014.