The football season is drawing to a close, Spurs are on the verge of being the ninth best team out of all the teams in the whole country (sounds good when you say it like that, huh? thought not), and on the eve (well, nine days before) the FA Cup final, Manchester United have been aggressively taken over by American tycoon Malcolm Glazer. Their fans are not happy; as the richest and biggest club in the world, they do not need somebody like him, as Chelsea did. He looks certain to win a big enough share to take then off the stock market and transfer his debt onto them - that could cause them serious grief. I think however that there is something seriously sinister about this guy. Now I know how other fans feel about Man U. The same way I feel about Arsenal. And I know that Glazer has never even been to United's ground, and many will say that makes him just like most of the other United fans (which is a fair comment). And it's not because he's American. Nor is it because he turned a small, joke of a team into the champions of whatever it was, Baseball or American football or something, and that United of all teams don't need that, and they already do buy the best players for a shitload of dosh - Rooney, hello like? So what is it about Glazer that has the country rattled? He always wears a baseball cap. And, as Bluewater Shopping Centre has demonstrated, backed up by Messers Blair and Prescott's voices of concern today about the cap- and hood-wearing yob culture, that is a hallmark of terror.
Cap Fear
13.5.05 02:52
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