'It’s not an intractable situation, but it seems little closer to resolution than it has been at any other point over the last 17 years.' twoht
It already feels as though this is going to be a winter of discontent at Manchester United. Losing their first game of the season seems to have been the catalyst for a renewed attempt to get the Glazer family out of Old Trafford once and for all. – though how successful that might be is debatable, to say the least – but the rumour mill is already speculating that attempts to prise the club from its owners could be coming about sooner rather than later.
At the start of the 1989/90 season Manchester United were in an even more moribund state than they find themselves today. It had been 22 years since they last been the champions of England, and big money signings in the early to mid-1980s hadn’t significantly improved the club’s fortunes. The day before the start of the season, an announcement by a hitherto unknown 37-year old businessman had shaken the club. Knighton announced that he was taking over Manchester United, even appearing on the following lunchtime’s Football Focus to reaffirm the point.
And Knighton wasn’t acting alone. He was backed by the former chief executive of Debenhams, Robert Thornton, and Stanley Cohen from Parker Pens. The club was initially successful under him, but things soon started to head south. In 1996 he threatened to sue the local newspaper, the, and resign from the club after being ‘publicly humiliated’ over claims he and his wife Rosemary had seen a UFO in 197. At the start of the 1997/98 season he sacked manager Mervyn Day and installed himself in his place.
When Carlisle’s financial problems became so great that the club had to be put into administration in July 2002, Knighton finally sold up. He hasn’t been involved in running a football club since.
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