Thats why I said there is no point being sentimental... The
Glazers isn't from Manchester either, so are a lot of the owners
who are not from the town of the clubs they own.
Honestly, I won't mind if someone changed
Newton hawker centre to Reebok Food Place or East Coast beach
to KFC Isle if it helps the customers and provide a cleaner
and more beautifully environment with the money they pump
in.
Even is Sg, a lot of names have been changed... Street names,
Shopping Mall names, School names... Even where we stay the GRC
names keep changing. But like I said, with time, we get used to
it.
It's not as though the club name is being changed, its just a
stadium name... If the team continue to perform well, who cares
where they play... What matters is the team have the extra
resources to continue to do well and compete at the highest
level... This is the foremost important aspect of the club.
And not what the stadium is called.
No point complaining next time when there isn't enough money to
buy better players while others around are doing so... and the club
start to slide down the league... Cos the fans were too sentimental
to move ahead...
Manchester United itself wasn't known as it is today, they
changed the entire club name and even the jersey colours
once upon a time... So if those fans back then didn't allow it, or
were too sentimental, we might not seen a successful club today.
And we are only talking about a stadium name now...
Hell, I don't even mind if they change their stadium name
to 'The Coop'... lol. If KFC gives them $20m a season to invest in
new players. I will say go for it... The name Old Trafford isn't
anything that special either...
sir, I don't agree with what you think.
yes, money is important, but there is a need for identity.
OT is special and for those who live and breathe MU and stay in
MU, it means something.
Yes, we argue about newton, mrt, etc..more of us are nonchalant
about the name change, because we have slowly lost the
identity and links to these places, and what we used to call our
own.We simply doesn't care anymore, as long as it provides us
services, and cheap.And this is dangerous.
Sadly, one day, with the glaciers, MUFC will slowly lose all the
naming rights, even the training academy, the stadium.. it is just
the beginning of the end, a slow death.
