FC United of Manchester

Hear some Man Utd fans are forming their own club, why thats not going to remove Glazer is it?

I admit that I don't really know much about this, but I honestly don't understand why Glazier was so determined to buy the club. Why would you want to own a football club if owning it meant being hated by all the fans and potentially destroying it altogether? When he started getting death threats and saw effigies of himself being hanged, did he not think 'hey, maybe this isn't such a good move after all'?

Quote: SuperMartin_v14_

no.
but the new club won't be tainted.

Thats true I suppose, you'll have to start of at the North Western League so I hear.
Heard Brian Kidd was offered the job of managing the new club.
I suppose you won't get the hangers on and the glory hunters with this new club and you'll all be genuine Man Utd fans

I wish it would happen to Birmingham City, I really hate them and their fans

FCUM? F'cum more like. Wahey.

But no. So an american buys british foreign policy, nobody's worried. An american buys a british football club? Jaysus, that's shockin!

Just a bit of (not even) wordplay, my dear old thing. I'm more an ABV myself.

FC United given League go-ahead

It occured to me that FC United of Manchester is probably what Glazer wants the team to be called, it smells of franchise.

Quote: Captain_Stupendo_

I find the whole thing quite amusing, Man utd are far from being my fave and if it resulted in them having massive debts and being relegated then all you utd fans will realise just how unfair the financial situation is between the premiership and the lower leauges.

Oh dear. If I had a pound for everything I heard this garbage...

We know all about the gap between the Premiership and lower leagues. We do not necessarily agree with it, nor is it our fault - perhaps if more people could be arsed going to see their local clubs, then they wouldn't find themselves in the situations some of them have done over the years. Don't be so condescending.

In any case, we have earned our position - we started out in the same fashion as any other club, way back in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR. We worked to get where we are, without any Abramovich-esque sugar daddy, or indeed any high-trousered ginger leprechaun parasite. It amazes me that many people overlook this fact.

Manchester United were successful in the 90's because they were one of the first to recognise that football had developed into a business, and, fair play to them, they exploited that, they cultivated Manchester United into a global brand and reaped the rewards. And now, because it's essentially become a business, takeovers can happen. It is an unfortunate, but logical progression from developing Manchester United into a business in the first place, and is a product of those forces which made it a success in the first place. Quite ironic, really.

Quote: Captain_Stupendo_

Not your fault! its clubs like yours that spend squllions of pounds ensuring that lesser clubs never get a look in, ah i just hate all the money in football these days it ruins the game.

You pillock, you've completely misunderstood the whole point. Like I said, United have EARNED their success. Phil is exactly right.