Green & gold ’til they die or fold

Guest article by Chatmaster from redissue.co.uk

The thing that I have noticed particularly obvious about the whole Glazer takeover has been how good the Glazers have been at dividing the fans.

Even amongst my friends there are pro FC / Anti FC / Not A Penny More / Match Tickets Only & no pies e.t.c but the one thing that obviously unites (excuse the pun) all of us is our need to get rid of them.

I honestly do not believe for one minute that it is possible to get everyone to agree to anything, as has been shown here, but one thing is for sure we all hate the Glazers.

Unfortunately because we have different ways of showing it, and different ideas it will/has got very diluted and this is a major blow to everyone except the Glazers.

I think scarves/hats/badges etc are a good idea, alright it’s not very radical but it is something that realistically could be adopted by everyone from the ‘terrorist bomb them’ section to the ‘no pies inside’ protestors.

One thing the chants inside OT this week did achieve should not be underestimated, and that is the fact that a lot more people were showing discontent than we imagined.

Alright it’s easy to chant but it’s easy to wear a scarf/hat/badge/flag as well.

Now this bit might prove slightly controversial and it may sound like I am taking the piss but the big problem with the scarf/hat/badge/flag idea is that it is impossible to distinguish people who are wearing them and who are not.

I therefore suggest that all anti Glazer items be easily identifiable by making them a set colour (color for any Americans lurking).

My suggestion for this is Green/Gold of the old strip. This would make any anti Glazer supporter stand out and a sea of green/gold could never go un-noticed on TV.

Also even things like green/gold cards or flyers of the back pages of fanzines (we would have to have a word with the mags about this) could be used to signify our dislike of them.

And I doubt it is possible for anyone to be ejected for wearing a green/gold scarf.

It might be a bad idea, but if we can get ONE thing to unite all of us then at least we have a start.

I would gladly redo a section of the site (redissue) in this colour and explain to a few thousand people what it means when they see anyone wearing this colour.

It’s a visual impact, something that we have been severely lacking. And who knows, once people start to see how many people actually are opposed to this they may start being slightly more pro-active.

* As a side note if we ever played against Norwich it might get confusing, but sod it.
** We considered black etc but it’s hardly noticable on TV or amongst the red/black that people currently have.
*** Let’s go one step at a time. Get the people wearing colours who care. If we later want to set off g/y flares, throw g/y scarves or paint the megastore g/y then that is another question for another day.

If you have a green/gold hat, scarf, badge, dog or child then you hate glazer.

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