The thing about MUFC is that they are always moaning - Rio Ferdinand was hard done by for not showing up at a drugs test, Roy Keane was hard done for breaking some guy's leg and being suspended, the referee ' done us hard' if the result didn't go as planned, the shirts were the wrong colour (remember that one Southampton),the pitch was too hard and Wayne is only a good kind-hearted lad who is still learning to drive! Well, it's all come home to roost.
As a PLC the board is bound by certain restraints,one of which is that they cannot moan if someone buys their shares. So they were quite happy to live with JP and JM (even though the two boys flushed out young Ferguson over shady transfer fees) but once they sold out to some guy with a ginger beard (who looks like one of the wee people) all hell breaks loose and next minute JP's horses are threatened with all sorts of bad things. Effigies are burnt and season ticket applications are torn up, violence is threatened at the Cup Final. Sponsors are boycotted.
What other PLC members in Britain act like this. Let's face it, MUFC by UK standards is a small to medium company on the Stock Exchange - what other company's shareholders would demonstrate with such public disorder ?
While some would argue that MUFC have survived Munich 1957 and returned and they have survived relegation (5 short years after winning the European Cup, let us not forget) I think that the vast majority of ABU supporters will be laughing up their long sleeves tonight at the prospect of Malcolm raiding the TV rights and shirt revenues and Roy Keanes's testimonial and there is not a damn thing that they can do about it!
As a PLC the board is bound by certain restraints,one of which is that they cannot moan if someone buys their shares. So they were quite happy to live with JP and JM (even though the two boys flushed out young Ferguson over shady transfer fees) but once they sold out to some guy with a ginger beard (who looks like one of the wee people) all hell breaks loose and next minute JP's horses are threatened with all sorts of bad things. Effigies are burnt and season ticket applications are torn up, violence is threatened at the Cup Final. Sponsors are boycotted.
What other PLC members in Britain act like this. Let's face it, MUFC by UK standards is a small to medium company on the Stock Exchange - what other company's shareholders would demonstrate with such public disorder ?
While some would argue that MUFC have survived Munich 1957 and returned and they have survived relegation (5 short years after winning the European Cup, let us not forget) I think that the vast majority of ABU supporters will be laughing up their long sleeves tonight at the prospect of Malcolm raiding the TV rights and shirt revenues and Roy Keanes's testimonial and there is not a damn thing that they can do about it!