Red Army

So there you're taking sport and turning it into war in order to make people think it's more important than it really is.

You know, how many football teams will talk about like, you know, the Red Army, the Blue Army, you know, and it's the same kind of idea.

But there's another way where you can change the way people perceive about something by stop talking about it as war and start talking about it as sport.

Let me give you an example.

Lo and behold, a few days later, it fell apart like I knew it would.

In fact, I think the people who were pushing that are now talking about injuries and transfers because, you know, unlike the 58, the Red Army and everybody else, it's just a little bit of a fill the international break project, isn't it? However, however, you may have seen today that Man United, and I don't understand this.

I don't understand this at all.

But Manchester United have launched a new kit.

And I'm sure the Man United website is inundated with people buying this kit.

You know where I'm going to go with this.

Two weeks ago, we were being pressured to a point where representatives of the 58, the Red Army, shut down their accounts and said, I don't need this personal abuse.

Two weeks ago, people were basically forcing good people out of the fight against the Glazers because they wouldn't retweet stuff.

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The Red Army.

Happy Saturday.

This is The Kickabout.

But yeah.

Well, I'm Red Army Keith, one of your hosts as always.

And I'm joined by...

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"It comes at the end of a week that started with protests on Sunday.

The Red Army have kept their flags and banners off the Stretford End for both games this week.

They've done so much to improve the atmosphere inside the stadium over the last couple of years, and United need to keep them onside." I think this is a positive I mean, it's a positive.

I mean, there's a lot of people out there that when the 58 do a protest or the Red Army do that, people go, "Oh, put your flag up," or, "Oh, you're just gonna have a protest." But a lot of the time, the protest or removing flags would be diluted by, oh, with, with-- You know, I, I remember them, I remember them doing a, um, I remember them doing a protest on a Sunday, and Sir Jim Ratcliffe did his interview with Gary on the Monday, and then there was the ChatGPT, ChatGPT pictures on the Tuesday, and 90% of the fan base were knocking one out to it.

"Oh, my God.

Look at this amazing stadium." So, if you look back at all the protests or things that the fans have done, they're normally followed up by a transfer, a stadium announcement, or a good result.

The Glazers won't sell, but they want it, and they've got another four billion to invest in the club.

Well, that's where you ring up the 58, you ring up the Red Army, you ring up Must, you ring up us and all, everybody else, and you say, "Look, we need your help.

We will buy the club tomorrow, but they won't sell.

We need your help." And at that point, that's where you empty the stadium.

I thought I was telling you today there was no banners in the Stretford end.

The Red Army didn't have any banners.

They didn't put them up because they were doing a demonstration, weren't they, against the...

It's about 650 people have had their season tickets taken

Anything else?

Uh, what's your thoughts on the, the Red Army thing last night? And obviously we were talking-

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... about it in the group, 'cause I really like it obviously this week, but it's, uh, for those that don't know, they're doing the, the big, you know, you treat us like crap kind of banner, don't we, on there as well.

And I'm a big fan of that.

I think that the only thing that I have really with the, the Red Army, as we were saying and discussing in the group last night, was I think there just needs to be a more weekly consistent message from it.

'Cause it seems like...

And the problem is though, is there's so much going on off the pitch with United at the moment, I understand that that's tough.