Did Football just eat itself ?

@Burnley123 I'm still trying to get my head around how they thought they could get away with it in the first place.

@RodionRomanovitch ikr! Guessing they expected some hand wringing and ineffective whining not outright revolt. 😊.
Good for all Brits who stood up to greed.

@RodionRomanovitch In Spain its led by Real Madrid who have massive political power and connections. As close a thing as there is to a state football club in a Western country.

In England it was led by the Glazer family who weathered massive protests in their controvertial takeover of United. They were used to going against puplic opinion and getting away with it.

The difference was that this move alienated the ENTIRE English football community. Pundits, fans, players, coaches, the FA, the Premier League, FIFA, Uefa and all political parties. They expected some resistence but not THIS much resistence.

What gets me is that is failed so abysmally. Their PR was non existent and they didn't seem to have a plan. This didn't even come a tenth the way to succeeding and they look ridiculous.

These are intelligent successful people but showed a complete ignorance of English football culture.

@Burnley123 A pretty good analysis of the whole debacle here from Henry Winter of The Times being interviewed for Redmen TV ;

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKF_WfaQdAw&t=2000s&ab_channel=SkySportsFootball]