Sir A1ex
Full Member
But I still think he (and they) created much of the hysteria in the first place. If it wasn't now largely impossible to suggest the business plan hasn't worked I'd bet money that lot will still be pushing the whole 'the sky is falling down' agenda to this day. I'll give them no credit for abandoning fear-mongering once they realised it no longer gained traction. It shouldn't have happened in the first place.
I can understand you relishing a chance to be smug (presumably you've been defending the Glazer's business plan on here from the beginning, but I don't remember your voice being there alongside GCHQ and co).
But the fact that a worst case scenario hasn't occurred is by no means proof that there was no risk. I know lots of people who have got pissed and driven home from the pub without anything bad happening.
The fact is, without one man's genius, we may well not have won 5 league titles and got to 3 champions league finals in the last 7 years, and unless you have access to a parallel dimension, there's no way anybody can say whether the whole thing would have worked out as well without that success. As Andy Green rightly points out, look at the mess Liverpool ended up in... if you think we have some God-given right to avoid anything like that, then you're deluded.