And won't they just deserve that!? They'll just switch allegiance anyway. When that's the only reason you support a team, its the very reason to switch clubs.
I would suspect 50k match-attending, manc born and bred, Man Utd fans are disgusted. 450k Man Utd armchair "fans" don't give a sh1t one way or another. and 140m Man Utd fans worldwide are really excited by the prospect of Man Utd only ever playing other clubs they've heard of.
Something will happen. Too many reputations now staked on this. Previously the owners could say "Well, we were just talking about it, we don't actually plan on doing it". Now the bottle, stable and can are all empty and the genie, bolting horse and worms are not going back!
The ESL would...