Posts Tagged ‘Manchester United’

Why leveraged takeovers are bad for football

By Tom Dunmore • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics and Economics

MUFC
Are leveraged buy-outs bad for football? Two experts slug it out.



How an American won over English fans

By Tom Dunmore • Jan 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics and Economics

Randy Lerner
What Glazer, Hicks and Gillett could learn from a quiet American.



Man Utd Boss Labelled Judas

By Tom Dunmore • Jan 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics and Economics

Judas Gill
Manchester United Chief Executive’s house “attacked” by angry anti-Glazer protesters.



The People’s Clubs?

By Mike Gumballhead • Jan 18th, 2008 • Category: News & Notes

This is Anfield
What’s going on with the rich men running Liverpool and Newcastle?



Man Utd not in the Public Interest?

By Tom Dunmore • Jan 17th, 2008 • Category: News & Notes


Did the Glazers mislead the government when they promised not to raise ticket prices?



G14 Disbands: A Victory for Football?

By Tom Dunmore • Jan 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics and Economics

Blatter and Platini, together
Is the disbanding of the G14 a victory for anyone other than the self-serving elite of world football?



Don’t Be Fooled by Man Utd’s Gross Profits

By Tom Dunmore • Jan 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics and Economics

Man Utd
Why Man Utd’s record profits aren’t something supporters should celebrate.



Man Utd Fans on Why Old Trafford is Like a Funeral

By Tom Dunmore • Jan 2nd, 2008 • Category: News & Notes

You may have heard Fergie’s rant about the fans at Old Trafford for the 1-0 win over Birmingham on New Year’s Day — “That was the quietest I have heard the crowd, it was like a funeral,” Ferguson said, “The players need the crowd sometimes but the atmosphere inside the ground wasn’t good.”
But what most […]



The G-14, Michel Platini and the Bluff of the European Superleague

By Tom Dunmore • Nov 7th, 2007 • Category: Politics and Economics

Superleagues, ego, politics, diplomacy, money, money, money. The chess battle between UEFA and Europe’s biggest clubs continues to go on, but today, there was a strong indication the endgame is here.
The G-14, the now misnamed grouping of eighteen elite self-selected European clubs, seems likely to extinguish itself soon with a new organisation apparently to […]