Green and Yellow Bar Scarf

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But many think it will be necessary if any bid to oust the Glazers is to succeed. They say United is not for sale, that they are in it for the long term. The fear is that they believe they can turn Manchester United into even more of a cash cow over the seven-year bond period – whether by selling their own overseas rights, exploiting new media or contemplating the promised land of a European super league. Certainly the other memorable image of last night – Avram Glazer laughing as the banners went up around him and the chants got louder – did not suggest they feel unduly threatened. The United mutineers have tweaked sinister songs to accommodate the names of Woodward and the Glazers. Neither Woodward nor any of the six siblings listed on the United board of directors were present for the post-Ferguson nadir against Burnley. Avram Glazer is the only member of the Tampa-based family to have attended a match all season. The 5-0 thrashing of Portsmouth, the 1-1 draw with Villa and routine 3-0 defeat of West Ham in February were not televised and the humdinger of a win in Milan, as well as a limp loss at Everton, barely mentioned or broadcast the anti-Glazer militants in the unseen away ends. A Wembley League Cup final, with 28,000 United fans in attendance and joint-broadcast by the BBC, was ripe for worldwide exposure. Sure, some fans are angry and protesting inside Old Trafford. But from where I'm sitting there are many millions of fans who are just happy the team are through to the next round. They're supporters of Manchester United too. Midway through 2009-10, United were second and two points adrift of Chelsea and ended the decade with a 5-0 dismantling of Wigan Athletic, though that did not temper the outcry at United's decision to pull out of a deal for the Serbian teenager Adem Ljajic. Ljajic was paraded at Carrington with Zoran Tosic in January of 2009 and Ferguson bragged Ljajic was 'the star of the tournament at the Uefa Under-19 Championship'. Eleven months later, Ljajic's development had ostensibly not met United's expectations.

Come full-time, those recently-bought scarves swirled triumphantly in the stands and the movement had officially taken off. A fixture quirk meant United would not play at home in a live televised game again until the Champions League return leg with AC Milan on March 10, to be shown on terrestrial channel ITV. That was the nub of it: the majority of matchgoers who continued to attend United games countenanced the Glazers because, as Joel Glazer highlighted, the team was successful under Ferguson. In five of the first eight seasons under the Glazers' ownership, United clinched five championships.

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The Red Knights plan will move into a new phase today when they announce the appointment of the Japanese investment bank Nomura. Must has provided the platform, now it is up to the Knights – led by the Goldman Sachs chief economist, the former United board member and friend of Sir Alex Ferguson Jim O'Neill – to show their hand. The reasoning behind the colour of the scarves is that before Manchester United became Manchester United, the club was called Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club. Founded in 1878, their kits were green and gold and the club would become United in 1902. Supporters stood outside the east stand with a banner that read, 'Glazer - forever in your debt'. The match was not televised live in the UK but the protests had gained attention and green and gold scarves started to sell like hotcakes. On an eclectic list that includes Richard Wilson, Terry Hall, Ian McShane, Pete Boyle and Harry Gregg, Solskjaer is listed as a patron of MUST. His bio does not appear to have been updated in around 15 years and still carries a quote that perhaps compromises Solskjaer, from February 2005: You would not have seen yellow and green scarves at Man Utd games before the Glazers took control of the club in a leveraged buyout in 2005. It still took a few years before the scarves started to gain popularity, though.

Chelsea pipped United to the league that day and supporters protested outside Old Trafford before, during and after the 4-0 thrashing of Stoke. Dollar notes with Malcolm Glazer's face read 'We shall not renew' and 'GO Glazers Out' signs were so widespread inside the stadium the supporter sat behind Ferguson raised his placard.Suddenly, despite all the success, the green and gold campaign started," Neville reflected in his 2011 autobuiography, Red. "It's very difficult for anyone within the club to comment on the Glazers. I grew up as a United fan and the last thing I did as a young kid was to look to see who was in the directors' box."