Watching Manchester United fans storm the hallowed grounds of Old Trafford on Sunday to protest the Glazer family’s ownership was prime material for Americans who secretly look down on our old friends across the sea.
We may lead the world by a wide margin in greedy, self-serving professional sports owners, but our fans generally refrain from invading stadiums and going onto the field in an attempt to force the owners to sell the team.
It doesn’t work, first of all, as we’ll soon discover in Manchester. But more important, we all would be concerned stadium security would beat our brains in and we’d be in jail within an hour.