Comment: Picture the scene: your mum falls prey to the dubious charms of an ageing businessman, who has only got eyes for her assets. He pawns your toys to pay for the wedding, halves your pocket money, moves his own kids in upstairs and then announces he’s taking her to Florida every bloody summer - for work. It’s not easy to take. But could you stop loving your mum?
So, how does a fan feel when the first fruits of the surreal Old Trafford boardroom takeover are leaked out? Ticket prices to rise; an annual transfer budget to match Wigan’s; and in the detail, an annual match in Tampa against a Florida Mickey Mouse XI. It’s a predictable turning of the screw under Malcolm Glazer’s new regime, if not quite as Dr Evil as some feared. (Manchester United tickets have long been more affordable than most - a fact rarely commented on by those who enjoy the prawn sandwich gags - and will still end up cheaper than Chelsea’s.)
But it gets no easier to accept that he’s allowed - allowed! - to put his sticky paws all over our club.
Guardian.co.uk
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