Oh. We’re not allowed to feel empathy for people who receive death threats and thugs in balaclavas outside their home now?
I get it. Some of your hatred for a bloke doing his job is really sad.
Ed Woodward's house attacked by 20-30 balaclava wearing "United fans"
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I get it. Some of your hatred for a bloke doing his job is really sad.
Well based on the interview they gave to Ireland's national broadcasters (RTE) not long after they sold, they both claimed they has no intentions of selling, but were actually looking to increase their shares, but felt like they had no choice given Fergie's attitude towards them after it and even Roy Keane makes mention of his attitude towards them in his book.
So the answer to you're question based on what they have said, no. Now one does have to remember we can say anything after the fact, but they never gave any notion before the horse crap they wanted out as far as I know.
I can't believe you're condoning what these Satanic, Super-Villain, Axis of Evil, Terror squad, Crime Lords have done.
Why post this here?
Well said. Moaning about Utd on here or in the pub with your mates is one thing but to don balaclavas and visit someones home ... well, moronic is a light word for it. Any condoning of it on here is weird.
I’ve received a quality control warning for stating Ed’s Marketing deals saved us and he’s getting a bad rap... whether you agree or not I explained my opinion with logic and fact which is more then the people that replied did . Based on that, I really doubt we’ll be seeing banning’s for people that condone the attack on Ed’s house.
what do you mean?
They should cancel the Fernandes transfer as punishment.
Anyone taking the “conspiracy theory” line is effectively condoning the attack. The forum needs varied opinions on almost every topic but must be unanimous in opposing this sort of stuff.
What, why?
I don't really care either way for Woodward but "just doing his job" isn't a defense for anything. He has known what he's been doing all along and facilitated a takeover that should have been illegal and has since refused to bring in a football person to look after operations because he likes the spotlight. Whichever way you look at it the guy is a cnut.
My original view is that the "attack" was incredibly staged and very convenient considering all the circumstances. This appears to be incorrect based on the information out there, so I'd update my view to say that it has targeted the wrong person/people in my opinion.
However quite frankly if it had been done by "Ultras" of a club abroad I am certain people would be lapping it up. But it's Man United and apparently our fan base has to pretend to be shocked and act holier than thou, despite us having previous for exactly these type of happenings in the past.
Not that i believe those theories but it's not condoning the attack if the point of said theory is that it didn't happen?
Didn't we have something like this against Rooney a few years ago? Probably the same idiots.
For vandalising uncle Ed's house.What, why?
Their intent was clearly to instill fear or terror into Woodward and his family and I think people who do such things are hooligans.
So yeah terrorist hooligan is quite apt in my opinion.
A lot of people have condoned it with
“shouldn’t have happened...but.......” type replies
Agree. How anyone can chant those woords without feeling embarrassed is beyond me.
This is all just so shite.
Shitty fans
Shitty people
Shitty owners
Shitty behaviour
Shitty across the board
Shitty fans
Shitty people
Shitty owners
Shitty behaviour
Shitty across the board
Nah one is relevant, yours isn’tCareful, @Inigo Montoya won't be pleased you've posted that link here
I thought it was posted on their Snapchat by the perps themselves. Why is there speculation that the Sun was present. Put away your junior detective sets lads. The police have been involved so if it's a hoax any investigation will be quickly called off and those involved in any such hoax could face penalties for wasting police resources
And this is why the whole club needs a full reset, starting with the owners. Until then or they suddenly realise Ed is doing an awful job and get rid of him first, we will have this underlying toxic feeling at the club. Apathy has finally turned to anarchy. I'm not surprised one bit by this.
No... No it isn't...
People who believe 911 was an inside job aren't 'condoning Islamic terrorists' are they? They're two separate issues.
You might disagree with them, but people who believe this is a set-up are not 'condoning' anything.
My advice would be to directly ask anyone who you think is condoning this if they condone it.
Yes its terrible when we try to better than other clubs whose fans attack the homes of senior employees
We are all disgusted with the absolute state and mismanagement of the footballing side of the club, but jesus this is just scumbags being absolute knuckledraggers. I hope they all go to prison.
Will have to strongly disagree with you there then. I think the "false flag" theory is very weak but I don't think anyone pushing it condones these acts, regardless of who they believe were behind them.
I'd always like to think about conspiracy theories from both sides in terms of risks and rewards. From the side of these "fans", obviously there is animosity against Woodward, so some feckin idiots doing this is not far out reality in their heads as just protest and get their frustration out against whom they feel is guilty and just want it to get publicized. From Woodward's point of view, if this was a PR stunt, all he gets is a slight bit of sympathy from the media and fans for the news cycle. Thats it. But if it is to be found out that it was all staged and completely a PR stunt, Woodward would be completely hounded out by both the media and fans. And I don't think you can get away from something like this even in the position he is in.
A different point of view is that Man Utd and the horses are two separate businesses. Business isn’t personal. Why let what happened with the horses effect Man Utd and i’m certain if they didn’t want to sell they would not have sold. They sold because it was financially very lucrative for them to sell.
All of which had an axe to grind towards the man. Don't take me wrong, I criticised the old man myself. In fact, while I do believe he's the most important person in our club's history I don't think he's infallible. I believe his lack of meritocracy hurt the club (brother hired as chief scout, former business partner/Liverpool's legend given a contract, some players he liked were kept waaaay beyond their expiry date and he pushed for his matey at Everton to become his successor etc) and which contributed greatly to our decline (old squad, no DOF etc). His spat with M&M is nothing short of disgraceful. Any other manager at any other given club would have had his arse handled by it. However I don't believe that ruthless business men like the M&M would be pushed out of a profitable venture by a then 64 year something employee. I think it was more about the rumoured 125m profit they made by selling their shares to the Glazers.
hence why I said 'Not related to woodward but....'
Well at least they didn’t attack the players like Sporting thugs did 2 years ago.
Alright Shawn
Look mate, I don't know what happened as I wasn't there. If I was there then I would have gone away and called the police not only out of respect towards any human beings living in the house but also out of respect towards anyone in the neighbourhood. This could have ended up into a fire, with people (including those idiots) dying and property lost. However I find it all a bit too convenient for my taste.
Regarding your argument we know very well that it's very difficult to prove that a specific someone is spreading fake news and when the guy is actually caught, the consequences are usually non existent. If it wasn't the case then Trump & Boris wouldn't be leading the US/UK and Mussol erm Salvini wouldn't be in his route to become Italy's next PM.
I heard it was Gary Neville and a few others from the class of '92.
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Imagine if the Bruno deal was still off, I bet this place wouldn't overreact like this
How does that help anything other than you being a little prick?
Are we now supposed to care what this utter cretin has to say all of a sudden?
Odd that he's even commenting on it.
It's a nothing story really, in the grand scheme of things. Move on I say.
Absolute scumbags. No justification for that. Hope the cops nail them.
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