If the Glazer family wanted to know - or for that matter even remotely cared about - how unpopular they are with a huge number of Manchester United supporters, then they should have looked at social media’s reaction to Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s apparent interest in buying the club.
It was, on the whole, positive. This, in case you cannot recall, is a man who once threatened to shut down a Scottish petrochemicals plant - putting over a thousand jobs at risk - unless the trade union representing the employees agreed to job cuts, a wage freeze, harsher redundancy terms and the scrapping of the final salary pension scheme.
Man of the people, it seems, is our Jim. The notion he would give the commoners a say in the running of the club seems far-fetched. But at least he is a dyed-in-the-wool Manchester United supporter … so much so that he tried to buy Chelsea not long ago.
