Manchester United supporters ask Glazer family to loosen their grip on club

Manchester United are in the eye of a storm. Picture: Peter Byrne

Jim O’Neill and Paul Marshall have written to Manchester United co-chairman Joel Glazer calling for the ownership to loosen their grip on the club in the wake of the Super League debacle.

The Old Trafford giants were controversially taken over by the Glazer family in 2005 and are in the eye of a storm, having become one of the 12 founding members of the breakaway competition announced on Sunday.