So, majority of the "most important" fans, argued by some, also want the Qataris.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Tbh everything he said was the sound of someone who didn’t know much more than what’s already publicly known. It was all “could happen”, “maybe” etc etc.
To be fair, if it's the only criteria then it's a bit dubious. The quality of the restaurant should be the first criteria not whether it is in your street or four streets away, especially when the consequences are important.
It's closer to xenophobia than racism, but just because someone would prefer a local businessman from Manchester, that is a Manchester United fan, doesn't mean they hate foreign people.
Also, most of the success United have had in their history was based on a local core of players.
Almost certainly other bidders who haven't released a statement. I get why the Qatari bid did, they're well aware of the PR sell they need to do. Ratcliffe went public because he hasn't been able to wipe his arse without calling up a reporter asking if he wants to come round and interview him about it.
Other bidders staying silent is what they'd be expected to do.
Big blow to some on here.
Well the club has been owned by 'foreigners' for 20 years. Maybe people have had enough and want a local owner that actually supports the clubs best interests?
Good statement
Yes like how Britishers were not liked by local people after being ruled over for 2-3 centuries. I understand why people may want that.
From a 1 minute clip?
In principle that's a decent opinion. But having the club's best interests isn't based on whether the owner is local or not, otherwise the Edwards family would still own the club.
But he's not local. He lives in Monaco. Refused to be part of British society and pay his taxes.
20 years of foreigners who weren’t fans, but solely looking to drain money from the club. We now have a lifelong fan who’s a foreigner and declaring he wants no money from the club and to put all profits back into the club. Huge difference. Just because someone is a local lad, doesn’t make it good for the club.
Correct. It’s played all the time, as we know.
Just a friendly reminder our most successful manager of all time was a “foreigner”.
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Neither were the fans in the clip. Did you listen to their accents?
What he said
So xenophobia is celebrated and anyone who points that out is playing the “victim card”. Sounds oddly familiar 
Good point. But no doubt those fans will now be forensically examined to determine if they are from within a 5 mile radius of the ground as there’s grounds of suspicion whether some of these match going fans have flown in from abroad which pushes them down the rankings in importance of fans. Investigation continues.
Why not? A lot of people ran with The Athletic survey that United fans want Ratcliffe. Only 7k fans, of a rumoured 1 billion, replied. But that didn't stop the media running with the headlines of "Manchester United fans want Ratcliffe!"
Irish people aren’t considered foreign nationals under British law…and vice-versa.
Well technically he was British, but nice try.
It's a very very small sample of random people
He wasn't. Well, isn't.
Exactly. This notion of "British" & "putting Manchester in Manchester" is all dumb.
Fixed it for you. Glazers would probably claim to be fans too, since medieval times
Yea the thread is a dumpster fireSo xenophobia is celebrated and anyone who points that out is playing the “victim card”. Sounds oddly familiar
Nationality objections are ridiculous. To be honest it isn't less xenophobic to say "I don't want any more Amercans" either
I'm fully aware of that. But the media don't say, "small sample" of fans. They run the story as though ALL United fans want x, y and z.
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Erik was totally refreshing this thread at 10pm Friday.
Or maybe some fans don't want to be the same as City and Newcastle and be state owned. How is this so hard to get your head around?So xenophobia is celebrated and anyone who points that out is playing the “victim card”. Sounds oddly familiar
Ah so based on absolutely nothing other than your biased opinion, he’s not a fan.
Plus hasn’t Jim fecked off to France or somewhere anyway?So xenophobia is celebrated and anyone who points that out is playing the “victim card”. Sounds oddly familiar
half of them were foreigners too
You mean a sport washing ownership saying he is a fan because that is good PR?
They’ve already been chatting with Beckham so it’s quite conceivable that the idea for the group name came from him, not from the idea that’s when he first started following United
Hmm, according to Daily Mail 'sources'. Nick Harris then came out and questioned those sources.
While it could coincidentally be a true story, these sources sound more like government agents reading from a piece of paper, rather than a close friend or associate speaking freely.
I know this won't sway your mind one bit, but at least you should understand the sources that you chose to trust unconditionally.
Scottish doesn't come under foreign. Scotland and England are both in Britain.
No it isnt hard. Actually its quite clear because those “fans” didnt put it like that.
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