Green and Gold…but what are we being sold?

As much as I admire the current Green & Gold campaign –
remembering the roots of United, in the form of Newton Heath – I have been
reluctant to give in and sport the scarf.

Not because I tend to sit on the fence when it comes to the
more political matters in the game, and not even because the colours clash horribly
with my trainers (which they do), but because the irony of all this is that we
are being forced to spend more money in order to protest about the Glazer’s handling
of United’s finances. And something about that really p*sses me off.

I was first alerted to this grim realisation after reading
Jim White’s piece in the Telegraph. Up until that point, I just completely assumed this was organised by United's supporters trust; but in reality, not a penny made from the selling of those scarves
or those fancy new green yellow and green t-shirts is supporting MUST. So lucrative is the selling of all things green and gold that I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if the Megastore, the retail heaven of
the worlds biggest sporting franchise, starts to sell them!

So the clever bastard who cottoned on to this growing trend
(and I mean growing; there were literally thousands inside Old Trafford waving the scarf
around) could be having a hearty old chuckle and wiping his tears of joy away
with a fifty for all we know. He might not even be a United fan; or as a mate of
mine so crudely put it, ‘it's probably the Glazer’s themselves’. Hmm.

Well, as I said, I don’t sit on the fence; not when it comes
to the Glazer’s and NOT when it comes to my club being mis-treated…so I bought
a scarf. But instead of thinking of myself as yet another faceless feature
inside the vicinity of Old Trafford (as for once, you were an
outcast if you wore red and white); I became yet another recruit and yet
another supporter. And that’s, I hope, why people are joining in. Not because
they’re jumping on any sort of masked capitalist movement, but because that
iconic piece of clothing wrapped around their necks or being held proudly over
their heads represents the love for their club. And as much as I disliked being told ‘Ah, I see you’re
with us’ when a MUST volunteer was about to talk me into supporting the cause - suggesting that if I hadn't forked out a fiver for the scarf, then I wasn't - I know it's all for the good of the club. And that's all that matters. That's all that ever matters.

If you care about United, show it properly. Join here and buy you're scarves from here.