Red Knight Group

By Abid Ali in Business on March 3rd, 2010
photo from AFP

I would never want to own a football club. It's the only business - and I hesitate to call it that - that the fans (customers) can drive away the franchise owner. And it's shameful that grown men should try to undermine and use fan pressure to drive out the Glazers.

"Initially the Red Knight Group has effectively set a challenge to Manchester United supporters to demonstrate they wish to see an alternative ownership proposal developed," Duncan Drasdo, chief executive of the Manchester United supporters club Must, said.

"In the first instance supporters are being asked to do this simply by joining the free online membership of the Supporters Trust and swelling its ranks to an initial target of at least 100,000 [members]."

Just who are these "Red Knight(s)" that are using the supporters group to oust the current management?