Even by the base standards of football chanting, one song that often echoes around Manchester United’s Old Trafford ground is explicitly vile and cruel.
‘He’s gonna die, he’s gonna die, Joel Glazer’s gonna die. How we kill him, we don’t know. Cut him up from head to toe. All I know is Glazer’s gonna die.’
It would be shocking enough if this mantra was aimed at an opposition player or manager. Yet the object of the fans’ hatred is a member of the family that owns their club.
No wonder Mr Glazer, 55, and his 62-year-old brother, Avram, his co-chairman, almost always watch the team from the safety of their mansions in America, rather than risk venturing into the stadium.