What football team does Elon Musk support?

ELON Musk is a name many associate with money, tech and vision – and now it’s a name many are associating with UK Football. Many football fans around the world and especially in the UK, have been taking to social media to make a plea for the world’s richest man to buy their favourite football clubs. What football team does Elon Musk support? It is not clear what team the billionaire currently supports. However, as a child his favourite team was Manchester United Football Club. On Wednesday, 17 August, 2022 in a Twitter thread regarding buying the popular UK team, Musk tweeted: ‘’Although, if it were any team, it would be Man U. They were my fav team as a kid.’’ Elon Musk has said he supported Manchester United Football Club Is Elon Musk buying Manchester United? Many football fans will be disappointed to know that Elon Musk is not actually buying Manchester United Football Club. The Tesla boss sent social media into a frenzy on Wednesday, 17 August, 2022 – when he tweeted ‘’Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome.’’ Read More on Elon Musk MUSK HAPPEN Fans make the same joke after Elon Musk claims he is going to buy Man Utd DEVILS MOVE Elon Musk claims he's buying Man Utd - but fans are set for disappointment The tweet from the Musk sent fans all over the world frantic, with one Twitter user tweeting: ‘’You have absolutely no idea the sheer amount of hope you just gave to a million fans worldwide. ‘’Please do buy us though.’’ Most read in World News PUTIN'S FEARS Putin 'fears for his LIFE' as sick invasion undermined by Black Sea failure END OF DAYS Scientists reveal best places to survive nuclear apocalypse 'as 5bn would die' POOL TRAGEDY Horror pic shows boy just moments before he drowns as adults don’t notice him HOLIDAY HORROR Brit woman ‘sexually assaulted by Ibiza tattoo artist’ while on holiday OUT TO KILL Watch as killer whales ‘bent on destruction’ ram Brits’ yacht & BITE OFF rudder YOU WATCHING, XI? Huge US show of force over Pacific with nuke bombers in warning to China One fan even went to the effort of creating a Manchester United shirt, mocked up with the Tesla logo on the front. However, Musk was quick to confirm in a following tweet that this was in fact not true, he said: ‘’No, this is a long running -joke on Twitter. I’m not buying any sports teams.’’ Musk has had a history of making irreverent tweets in the past – making it difficult to tell when he is joking. On April 24, 2022, he tweeted: ‘’Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in.’’ But on Wednesday, 17 August, 2022 – Musk put any speculation to rest when he tweeted: ‘’And I’m not buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in, despite the extreme popularity of such a move.’’ Does Elon Musk play any sports? During his time in high school, Musk tried his hand at a number of different sports. At 15 years old, Musk took up karate, Judo and wrestling – and here’s why. As a teenager, Musk was always the smallest and youngest child in the classroom. Read More on The Sun SCHOOL RUN SPIES Warning to parents who drive kids to school… see if yours is on list WOAH BABY! Woman left in hysterics as Asda provide useless substitute for pregnancy test He was also known as a ‘bookish’ kid – and this lead to him being the victim of bullying up until he was 15. So when he had a surprising growth spurt, Musk decided to try his hand at sports – just so he could learn to fight back.