Date: 28th May 2010 at 1:00pm
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David Gill has seen his stock progressively fall with United fans as the Green and Gold campaign has increased. He has begun to look more and more like a Glazer puppet and a liar, acting as a spin doctor for the American owners.

He declared debt was the road to ruin but claims that the Glazers are running the club well even though they have saddled us with huge debts and rising interest payments on this debt.

I personally didn’t have anything against him having taken over from the universally acclaimed ass Peter Kenyon but slowly I’m finding that Gill is going down the same path as Kenyon in my estimation.

Gill has taken every opportunity to knock the Green & Gold campaign, previously calling it “ridiculous” and saying it will make no difference to the owners. Rightly his words have not endeared him to the fans as his home was targeted by campaigners and it was reported that his son Oliver was booed during reserve games.

After such events it would be easy to see why he doesn’t agree with or like the Green & Gold campaign but is it wise to continue to rile up fans with his comments?

Today in an interview with The Independent Gill has again been speaking on the movement trying to brush it off as insignificant by claiming,

“We understand people’s desire to protest and I think it is a minority. It’s a visible minority in the stadium.”

I think anyone with eyes would disagree and it’s clearly more than a ‘minority’ but this is just another tactic of Gill to downplay it’s importance. He then went on to say,

“I think that [the green and gold] minority will go away.”

As his home and son has already been targeted you would think that Gill would keep quiet and just do his job but instead, he has developed an ego (the same thing he accused the Red Knights of!) and continually thrusts himself into the limelight with his inflammatory comments.

Last I knew Gill was United’s Chief Executive and not our social/media commentator so he would do better to not talk on the Green & Gold movement, instead he should just focus on his job. If it is so insignificant and just a minority it shouldn’t be on his radar.

 

6 responses to “Silence is golden for Gill”

  1. Andy says:

    Sounds like the crisis management team hired by the leprechauns are trying to fight back. Gill is clearly reading from the script that Ari Fleischer has drafted for them.

    Shame really I used to like Gill and believed he was one of the good guys looking out for the fans (and was one himself) as much as the commercial side. Seems now that he is just trying to keep his job, and has become a boot licking stooge.

    Let hope this makes our resolve even stronger.

    (Anyone not sure what a crisis management team does should have a look at the link below (if webmaster allows link))
    http://www.edelman.com/expertise/practices/crisis/

    LUGH

  2. Andy says:

    oops, didn’t proof read first, LUHG

  3. Brian Dawes says:

    The Green and Gold protest is over. It was good while it lasted but towards the end of the season it started getting ugly. It’s always a boneheaded minority who spoil things. It got the message across to Gill and Glazer though and that was the point of it. It’s over now though.

  4. Chudi Onwuazor says:

    I agree it did get a tad intense towards the end ie the smoke bomb in the club shop butr I don’t think the movement is necessarily over. The Glazers said they won’t sell the club but who knows if a good bid will make them see other wise?

    The club was valued at £1.2bn, if a bid made in excess of this was made maybe they could be persuaded to sell up

  5. Isaidso says:

    @BrianDawes – your not one of the CRISIS management team by any chance are you Brian? I think you are as certainly misinformed as David(lapdog)Gill if you think the green and gold true fans are going to fade away at the 1st provocation hurdle. I don’t doubt there might be the odd fanatic who does something crazy like the smokebomb. Yet in my honest opinion must are doing a great job, and do you think they will just down tools at 1st hitback by a scared shitless Glazers and his crisis team bullies? Nothing personal against you Brian but I think you are dead wrong in your proclamation that the green and gold campaign is finished.

  6. Isaidso says:

    By the way, is that more millions plundered from the club’s coffers to pay for the ‘Crisis Management Team?’