Συγκινητικός Gary Neville αυτή τη στιγμή στο Sky (με αφορμή το Leeds-Liverpool για το οποίο το κράξιμο που πέφτει σε όλους τους λογαριασμούς της Liverpool PLC δεν υπάρχει):
“I was half hoping they would rethink it because of the backlash. When I woke up and saw the statement, and it had Joel Glazer’s name on it, I thought, ‘Oh. This is a problem. Big problem.’ He doesn’t put his name on anything that man. He’s intelligent, he knows what he wants. He’s parked his weasels and he’s come out. Once he puts his name on it… he’s gonna try and force this through. They went through hell at Manchester United in the early years. They withstood it. They don’t care. They don’t care.
“I’m enthused by the reaction. But if they get this through – and these owners have pushed difficult things through in the past, they’re steel-like – it’ll change football in this country forever. Forever. We have to now mobilise, organise. It’s definitely not to get emotional and feel sick. Everybody’s gotta come behind this. Forget allegiances. They’re trying to take football away from us.
I feel slightly complicit. I’ve stayed pretty quiet in terms of the Glazer family over the years. I stayed pretty quiet because I thought when the club became a plc, you knew it could be bought. I believe in free market, generally in life, and I’ve always thought: what’s the answers to the Glazers? Who takes them out: Russia, China, state money?
I’ve stayed quiet on the basis that it’s still Manchester United, I can still watch the lads play, I can still be happy and sad. If they take dividends out, I can live with it slightly. But what I can’t live with is them attacking every football fan in this country. They have stepped over the mark. They are scavengers. They need booting out of this football club and they need booting out of this country.
This is an attack by six wealthy families on the integrity of our national sport, and it must be stopped.”
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“I think supporters up and down the country can stop this, and I think at the forefront of this will be Liverpool because I’ve seen it before. Football fans: get together, all of us, and stop this. This cannot be allowed to happen.”