Thinking about the rags' demo on Sunday, you ask yourself what it was actually about.
The media are making out it was about 'the soul of football' in the context of the ESL but, while that may have played a small part, I doubt it was the core factor. There was a lot of talk about '16 years of simmering resentment about their owners' and I'm sure that was the most significant factor. So it really wasn't them standing up for the average football fan, as idiots like Neville were trying to claim.
When you talk to some of them, they go on about the debt and the claimed £1bn that the Glazers have taken out of the club in debt servicing, other finance costs and their own dividends, fees and other things. So I ask the question that, if they'd cleared the debt or solely put their own money in so there was no debt, and they weren't taking a penny out, yet they were still where they are now and have been since Ferguson retired, with 4 managers and no PL or CL or even getting close to one, would they have been as angry?
None can give me an answer and I suspect the answer is that they'd have been just as upset over the relative lack of success, the scattergun approach to recruitment and the state of the stadium. Maybe less angry but still pissed off, particularly with us overtaking them.
So while the ESL might have been a catalyst it's essentially about their owners and their incompetence. That's not a fundamental problem for football; there's always been poor owners who don't run their clubs properly. We certainly know that!
It's therefore nothing to do with 'the soul of football' or leading a unified fan movement. It's about their shit owners and that's their problem and theirs only..