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| | David Conn: Forget Glazer, the Edwards family were happy to milk United cash cow - My Football Forum - World Wide ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | On Wednesday, before the Champions' League match against Milan, they will march to Old Trafford expressing strongly to the American businessman Malcolm Glazer that he might consider, to put it politely, leaving their club alone. |
 | | By then in the Football League Second Division, Newton Heath were going bust until they were taken over by a brewer, John Henry Davies, who paid off debts, renamed the club Manchester United and began to sell his beer to the club's captive fans. |
 | | From 1907, United were no longer a club but a limited company subject, as all the clubs were, to Football Association rules designed to prevent them becoming mere commercial vehicles for shareholders. |
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