Manchester United fans want to make their dispute with the Glazers and similar situations at other clubs across football a general election issue. They are also placing increasing hopes on the so-called Red Knights being able to buy out the Glazers.
Manchester United fans want to make their dispute with the Glazers and similar situations at other clubs across football a general election issue. They are also placing increasing hopes on the so-called Red Knights being able to buy out the Glazers.
I suspect the concerns of football fans will be swamped by other issues once the campaign gets under way. They are remarkably unspecific about the ‘pro-supporters’ legislation they refer to. It could, I suppose, revive the idea of a state-backed regulator for football advocated by David Mellor’s Football Task Force, but the trend of thinking is against further extensions of the regulatory state. Any restrictions on foreign ownership might be incompatible with Britain’s membership of the World Trade Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
As for the ‘Red Knights’, even if one accepts the arithmetic in the article, the Glazers have to be willing to sell and they show no signs of doing so at the moment.