Mason Greenwood banished by Man Utd

Dan Dare 

Greenwood, who I believe has one England cap to his name, and who is contracted to United till the Summer of 2025, should in theory at least have a decent resale value, particularly bearing in mind his young age. However, given the circumstances, it's inevitable that he'll be offloaded on the cheap. Think back to Referee pushing Paolo DiCanio being cast adrift by Sheffield Wednesday ....the cloud under which the player left, benefitted West Ham who could pick the player up for comparative peanuts given his ability.

But the wider issue comes back to, as so many situations in modern society do, to Cultural Marxism and its all pervasive influence. Just imagine Sainsbury's becoming a major advertiser on GB News for instance. Cancel Culture being what it is, and the Left's effective ability to organise boycotts, and Sainsbury's fortunes as well as their share price would fall through the floor. Any member of Britain's middle class Left would suffer social purgatory if seen setting foot in a Sainsbury store.

You've already got MPs, Rachel Riley, and the usual Leftist loudmouths rattling United's cage with dire warnings of what could happen if they play Greenwood ..... and that's as nothing compared to if they'd actually put him back in the team next Saturday. United's global brand would feel the full wrath of Militant Feminism combined with the affluent middle class who are the one's that can afford to buy their merchandise and their Season tickets, the number crunchers would have concluded the reputational damage to the global brand would far outweigh the costs, financial and otherwise of ushering Greenwood out of the door at a knockdown price.

Mind you, it will be interesting to see if any British club is brave enough/foolhardy enough to snap up young Greenwood. The British Woke never forgive, and an apology is useless ..... Greenwood can never be redeemed in their eyes, redemption is impossible. Sign him up and you'll have the BBC, your Womens Team, and every aggressive Lesbian in town shaking their fist at you ...... plus every Labour/Lib Dem politician anxious to curry favour with the 'wimin' ..... they'll all come out of the woodwork to condemn you.

I can't imagine that young Greenwood necessarily wants to move abroad, or that picking up a foreign lingo would come that easy to him, but is he now too hot to touch for the home market ?

I can't imagine any English club under Arab ownership being too perturbed at the prospect of a Feminazi backlash if they were to take on Greenwood. Newcastle perhaps, or even City or Aston Villa. They're all pretty much immune to any financial pressures. Then there's PSG too.

When I was growing up you were either a Red or a Blue, no other options available. You couldn't suddenly switch to Wolves because they won the League or you liked the colour of the shirt. You'd be ridiculed to death.

How it works today I have simply no idea especially, as noted, in London where the native population has effectively dribbled away.

I think that the decision about Greenwood is just about pragmatism. If they kept him on they would never hear the last of it from the many detractors - who are not necessarily female. He had to go - and he'll probably end up abroad. Good.

I think it's a great pity that so many of our footballers are Black, especially in the England men's team. I think one of the main reasons why the women's team have received so much support is because they're white and therefore representative of their country - ENGLAND, in case we've forgotten. Maybe that's why they're more successful than the men's team? They actually identify with their country unlike most of the players in the men's team. And, I should point out, that the women won the penalty shoot out against Nigeria - whereas our men's team lost their last penalty shoot out because ALL the Black players missed. Fact. Is it a coincidence that Southgate supports BLM and makes our players "take the knee"? Prat.

As for Greenwood he brought it on himself. I don't think it's any coincidence that it's black footballers who are over-represented in this type of crime. Just as it isn't a coincidence that it's muslims who are going round the country raping young white girls.

This looks like another miscarriage of justice. Female fans say he is guilty of something, but what?

@orac: the 'home town' aspect of football clubs is of course their raison d'être in the first place. It's why we have Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday for example, rather the Don Valley Chiefs or the Steel City Typhoons.

Mind you with so many English clubs now coming under American ownership, or other foreign ownerships which admire the American way of doing things, there is constant pressure to adopt a mindset that football clubs no longer need to be associated with a specific location but are instead portable franchises that can be relocated anywhere in pursuit of maximising revenues and profits. That sort of thing happens routinely in American sports business.

It's a bit surprising that Manchester United have not already been relocated to London and renamed the MU Glazerballs or some such. I'm sure the Glazers would be able to a deal with their co-religionists Levy and Lewis for a shared tenancy of the TH Stadium (no longer associated with White Hart Lane note) and can then flog off OT for a shopping mall or theme park, with luxury apartments included natch.

Charges being dropped does make him innocent just that the evidence was not strong enough to convict.

Now some don't think he is innocent and are making their voices known, they have made their minds up.

Italy and Turkey are leagues showing interest, I would say Turkey might be the better destination or even Saudi Arabia.