Your Weapons Are Truly Useless
The Manchester United Supporters Trust is still upset that the Glazers own their beloved football club. So they are stepping up their efforts to oust them.
They are going to wear scarves.
No lie. United fans are going to wear green and gold scarves this weekend to show the Glazers that they don’t like them. Not one bit.
Why green and gold?
Two reasons: First United supporters were unable to think of any more useless gesture. Second, those are the colors of Newton Heath, the club United formed from in 1902.
A Mark Longden of something called the Independent Manchester United Supporters Association said this is just the start. “I think it [green and gold scarves] is a way for people to quite clearly show what has been done to United due to the dire financial situation without having to boycott the games. It sends a powerful message out.”
Know what else it does? Not a damn thing.
Oh wait, wrong. It is going to accomplish something. It’s going to make a scarf maker in Norwich have a very, very good week of sales.
This isn’t powerful, this is a demonstration of how wussified United fans actually are. Funny that earlier in the week the MUST asked Sir Alex to take one for the team and step down (or did that already fall down the memory hole?), but United fans can’t seemingly bring themselves to miss so much as a match. Against Hull no less. Because you know what might really send a message this weekend? An Old Trafford with about 5,000 people in it.
That’d get someone’s attention.
Really, did Trading Places never make it over to England? Then let us impart some wisdom courtesy of Billy Ray Valentine on you: “It occurs to me the best way to hurt rich people is by turning them in to poor people.”
Here’s a suggestion for something that might actually be effective. Start an economic boycott of your club. Sure, your season tickets might already be paid for, but that doesn’t mean you have to attend the matches. And all the empty seats won’t just look bad on TV, they also mean revenue lost on concessions and merchandise.
And don’t watch on TV either, if United’s ratings go in the crapper, that will catch up to the bottom line soon enough as well. Rooney and Rio Jerseys? Don’t buy them. MUTV? Cancel it. Whatever else they hawk with that Red Devil on it, stop handing over money for it.
You want your beloved club back? Well, that’s not happening. But maybe you can force a situation where the Glazers have no choice but to sell to someone you hate less. And that’s about the best you can hope for now. All you have to do is stop giving the Glazers money. Give up your club for a year or two to get it back. It’s not that difficult an equation people.
How much do you really hate the Glazers? How much do you want them gone? Because, believe us, when they count their gate receipts on Monday and they are every bit as rich as after every other gameday, they are going to laugh at their own fans and how powerless and pathetic they really are.
Scarves? Wussies.
I suggest self-immolation for their next protest.
I second spectator’s suggestion.
It may seem funny now, but just wait until someone uses a green and gold scarf to garrote a Glazier. Then it’ll be really funny.
Re: And don’t watch on TV either
Looks like the game is only available via tape-delay on Setanta here in the States. Gee, I wonder how I’ll find a way to watch live (and not add to tv ratings).
@PR: First, you don’t know anything about these scarves. They could be magic scarves. Let’s not judge until we know the facts. And second … ahh, I don’t have a second. So, that’s it, then.
(stupid, evil Glazers)
Was there a green and gold Hogwarts house? Those are magic scarves.
Boycott canned ham!!!:
http://static.open.salon.com/files/ham1239603879.jpg
Goat, to boycott something we’d have to have bought it at one point first.
While I agree with your statement about boycotting the games, but MUST will not seriously endanger the health and survivial of the team in order to out the Glazers. By the time the lack of receipts hit the bottom line the glazers would have drained the coffers. The decline in TV revenue will damage the EPL just as much as, if not more than, MAN U. Therefore causing collateral damage to teams like West Ham, Hull, Stoke etc. Let’s not forget that TV revenue’s are usually packaged rights for yrs in advance.
Lets be serious here, you are basically asking the MUST memebers to collectively shoot themselves in the foot in order to hurt the Glazers. I promise you, the buffons (Glazers) are focused on their LBO project and will strangle MAN U before they let the MUST push them out.
Man I hate MAN U, just like every Arsenal fan should, but its a sad sight.
Lets go Silent Stan… set an example.
@Keith: You mean everyone doesn’t just have a can of that sitting around the house. Hell, I think I have one and I’m a vegetarian.
closest I’ve ever come to that was being given a canned Dak ham for my birthday. . . which eventually ended up being grilled whole on a Foreman.
/college was weird.
@umlaut
I had a comment all ready to go on that this morning then decided to not send it for not wanting to get made fun of (moreso than usual).
No, there was not a green and gold house, but Slytherin had green and Gryffindor had gold, so it could be an unholy magical alliance.
Didn’t someone suggest on here the other day that all teams should be community owned- like the Packers? Maybe that’s what this is about.
@Ryan: Or Exeter City!
oyeoro: Once MUST thought having Sir Alex step down was a good idea, I took it as a given that the temporary wreck of their club was acceptable collateral damage if it got rid of the Glazers.
Another issue I’ve just thought of: If they’re busy holding up scarves, how will they throw golf balls and darts at the players?
who would buy united? some oil drum?
Try knowing the facts before passing judgement. MUST did not ask Alex Ferguson to step down, it was the view of one supporter at a meeting for real United fans discussion potential ways to remove the Glazers as quickly as is possible. Secondly, the gold and green isn’t a one off protest against them. The Hull game was the first day of the gold and green and it is a way to show potential buyers that the fans are against the ownership, to allow fans that have bought season tickets and find it too difficult to give them up a chance to show their disapproval and to show bond investors that united fans are willing to boycott official merchandise, thus putting them off and forcing the Glazers into selling. Also the green and gold aren’t the only thing MUST is planning, it is merely the visual weapon against them to gain interest and get people and the press talking about the issues (which by the look of this site it has already done in its first week!) and you will see many other ways in the near future of how we’re going to facilitate their exit and get the club back.
pretty ridiculous,imagine not seeing the benefit of Forty ish stockbroker chappies owning the club.Just think of the monies not taken out of the club.