Manchester United F.C. Scarf BC

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Since very early in his time at United he's spoken with passion and eloquence about who and what the club represents," Daniel Harris wrote about Evra in On the Road: A journey through a season. It was in response to a query about the mutinous chants focused on the United owners, the Glazer family, and the club's executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward. RedIssue folded five years ago but the fanzine still haunts Manchester United from beyond the grave. While the situation at Old Trafford was not quite as desperate, Manchester United being placed at the mercy of the markets was exactly what all the dire warnings in 2004 and 2005 had predicted. United bought to win the Premier League and Champions League and succeeded with their strongest-ever squad.

Suddenly, despite all the success, the green and gold campaign started," Neville reflected in his 2011 autobuiography, Red. We are a very well-run club and given what's happening at other clubs, people should be proud of what's happening at Manchester United. Players were banned from discussing the campaign, MUTV were forbidden from referring to it and a supporter was ejected from Live at the Red Cafe for refusing to remove a green and gold scarf. A week later, the stadium was peppered with green and gold for the three o'clock Saturday kick-off with Hull.Neither Woodward nor any of the six siblings listed on the United board of directors were present for the post-Ferguson nadir against Burnley. United supporters chanted - to the tune of Jesus Christ Superstar - 'Dimitar, Berbatov, one look at City and he said f--- off'.

Dollar notes with Malcolm Glazer's face read 'We shall not renew' and 'GO Glazers Out' signs were so widespread inside the stadium the supporter sat behind Ferguson raised his placard. United were winning comfortably yet the dust had still not settled from the chasing Manchester City had given them four days earlier in the League Cup. The Glazers had pulled off a successful refinancing in 2006 but, as O'Neill explains, "The 2008 global financial crisis had made it increasingly difficult to negotiate further new agreements. If the three-handled pot was so insignificant to Neville then pictures of him clutching it with Ferguson and Wayne Rooney would not have appeared in his book. It was one of those crowdpleasing cameos Beckham specialised in in the twilight of his career; pinpoint passes with the tempo relaxed and an audacious attempt that Edwin van der Sar parried.When he died in 2014 following a stroke, the controlling stake he owned in Manchester United was split equally between his six children. as players we never get involved in those things; our job is purely on the pitch and we allow people who are paid to do jobs in other areas of the club to do their job. Midway through 2009-10, United were second and two points adrift of Chelsea and ended the decade with a 5-0 dismantling of Wigan Athletic, though that did not temper the outcry at United's decision to pull out of a deal for the Serbian teenager Adem Ljajic. With Ferguson gone and Moyes proving to be a disaster, United's parsimony catches up with them and they're in danger of not qualifying for the Champions League.

Ferguson's assistant, Mike Phelan, contradicted the club's statement and blamed work permit problems. Sales always spiked when the United badge was cracked on the back page of newspapers and the acrimony among matchgoers has never been as severe in the era of United AD (after dominance) as it has this month. But inside the club we have not been affected by changes of ownership: you wouldn't have a clue that anything is different under the Glazer family.Ferguson was the glue that held the club together in the wake of the Glazer takeover in 2005 he was hugely culpable for. A club spokesperson said United took 'into consideration the young players emerging through the ranks at the club, and we have not chosen to pursue the transfer'. Love United Hate Glazer' banners were unfurled in the second tier of the Stretford End and would reappear in home games against Liverpool, Fulham and Bayern Munich. The traditional red and black colours are swapped to green and yellow as a throwback to the days when Manchester United was known as Newton Heath.