Very kind comments of alan and zoe. I've been in Shanghai for a few days helping undermine western economies by flooding them with cheap imports. Somebody has to do it. Any way back to dear old manchester and good to see everybody still is kidding themselves into thinking Manchester United is a football club. It isn't, lads. It's a business. A PLC (for the moment) till Glazer takes it private. And you are no longer fans, or club members. You are customers, to be profited from. Like any business, MUFC PLC only has one objective. To make maximum profit for minimum outlay. That is the fundamental bottom line of any business, and Mr Glazer will be no different. Decisions will be made for commercial reasons. They have to be, or the companies collapse. The football is not the raison d'etre. It is a product which the club is selling to you. And those people on the pitch are not a team. They are an asset. It is merely a means to an end , the end being profit. It's too late to argue it. The cause is lost. It was lost years ago when it became a PLC and the fundamental nature of the entity was changed for ever. You want to be fans? Go find a football club. Supporting Manchester United now is no different from supporting TESCO. They're both businesses . And Glazer will pay no attention to Shareholders United. He'll sit back, knowing full well that 99% of the customers will still turn up and all his overseas audiences won't give a damn. I was sat in a factory in Shanghai this week listening to various chinese people arguing about the teams they support . They were mostly Arsenal. They used to be Man U, but it lost some of its glamour for them when Beckham left. They know nothing about who owns what. They don't care. They're avid consumers of British football via satellite TVand the merchandise that goes with it. That's what Glazer wants, and Rupert Murdocj etc all want. It's got sod all to do with sentiment or loyalty to a team. It's all about selling product .

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