The passing of Britain's best footballing talent has cast a new light on Manchester United - the people's club. The poignant manner in which Best's life was celebrated and the wonderful displays of soccer, tribute and sense of history cannot have come at a better time for this glorious institution of the beautiful game. Too much has been thrown in and out of the once hallowed corridors of Old Trafford, with little or no sense of the past and putting footballing rivalries aside, no one has emerged the wiser, nor in this case nobler...
To the Glazers, now is the time to embrace the colossus that you have so shamelessly "purchased." For you may hold the purse strings and power over the body corporate, but until you live and embrace it, you will never be a part, don't even mention own, the spirit that is Manchester United. In his time on the field, George Best, this genius from Belfast threw caution into the wind, and the gusts that swept lifted the club to heights it never knew before. He became a part of us, a part of our dreams and now, a part of our past. Now is the time for Malcolm Glazer and Sons to throw caution to their ill winds, embrace the club and lift United to the heavenly heights we yearn to see!
The press speak about our nameless jersey as if it were a tarnished cloth, but we know better... Mr Glazer, were you present at George Best's tribute? If you were, were you listening?
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