Last modified on Thu 22 Apr 2021 12.09 EDT
MONEY SPOILER?
Poor Ed Woodward. Manchester United’s executive vice-chairman was so set against the proposed Super League, so vehemently and principally opposed to the entire hideous idea, that he flat out insisted on saying absolutely nothing about it for two days before, once it was obviously falling apart and reputations were being shredded like so much cabbage at a coleslaw convention, announcing that he was resigning but not quite yet.
Amid the chaos of Tuesday night this noble stand was misinterpreted by a foolish public as evidence not of the greatest ethical purity but of some kind of personal failure, forcing someone to brief Sky today that Woodward’s resignation came “because he could not support the owners’ plans to join the Super League”, rather than because he was fatally tainted by the entire miserable clusterbungle. The Fiver, along with all right-thinking fans, thanks him for his sacrifice.