Manchester United’s plans to join the new European Super League are nothing short of an abomination.
They trample on the idea that success has to be earned on the pitch by ringfencing status and revenue for select clubs regardless of performance.
We already knew that Ed Woodward and the Glazers did not have the best interests of the club and its fans at heart, but they have perhaps never made it quite as plain and obvious as this.
It’s not just from the world of football that criticism has rained in for the idea.
England international cricketer Sam Billings has taken aim at the proposals as well.
The Glazers have simply used United as a cash cow since they bought it – saddling it with their debt while they profit from English football’s biggest club.
At best, success on the pitch was an afterthought or something which needed to be maintained to a relative degree in order to preserve United’s commercial profitability to new sponsors.
Now, it has been reduced to an irrelevance. United could finish bottom of this new league every single season and the Glazers would still stand to earn an extra £300 million.
Why would proper fans even want to watch the matches on offer in this new division?
They would ultimately be pointless; not working towards a Champions League or Premier League crown, but merely being played out to earn the clubs – or more accurately franchises – involved broadcasting cash.
That means that Billings was far from the only one on social media criticising the Glazers and Woodward once again after the announcement.
United haven’t even had the gumption to tweet it out, because they know the reaction it would get.
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