Quote ="Enfield Exile"A couple of questions for United fans:
Why use blue and yellow balloons for your 'green and gold' campaign?
Do you not think the "green and gold" campaign is rather lame? After all, wearing a Norwich scarf (while underneath your jackets you are sporting a red replica shirt) and then handing £40 to the Smurfs is not a 'protest' with any substance, is it?
Out of interest, what happens to the money raised by those selling the yellow and green merchandise? Were those involved in starting the campaign, also selling the merchandise?'"
I see what you're saying, but from a neutral's POV I can see the other side of the arguement - if the fans simply stopped paying their money and attending, there'd be another 10 fans waiting in the wings to take their seat. It's the nature of a big club. At least whilst they have the opportunity to attend matches, they can make their feelings known to the owners. Something which wouldn't happen if they stopped attending, and the 'football tourists' took their places.
How effective this campaign will be remains to be seen. I suspect, not so effective. Manchester United is such a massive club and product, and there's enough people out there with more money than sense that they'll never have a problem putting bums on seats as long as they're challenging for trophies.
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