article_snippet.sent: Also I'm not sure the publicity is necessarily bad. '
article_snippet.sent: Football is a passionate business.
article_snippet.sent: But from where I'm sitting there are many millions of fans who are just happy the team are through to the next round.
article_snippet.sent: the team're supporters of Manchester United too.
article_snippet.sent: I get that some fans don't like us, but to hate us, it's such a strong word.
article_snippet.sent: To hate us when the club has been so successful, it's extraordinary.'
article_snippet.sent: Nayani says that the club felt a 'palpable sense of injustice' after the club emerged they would not be able to parade the Champions League trophy on a open-top bus journey through Manchester after booze-fuelled Rangers fans had rioted in Manchester during their Uefa Cup Final defeat earlier that season.
article_snippet.sent: Nayani says that in 2010, with a rumoured bid from the Red Knights (a group of well-off United-supporting businessmen) reportedly in the offing, The Glazers' commissioned a stack of fresh market research to investigate supporters' attitudes towards supporters' as well as the Red Knights and were pleased with the results.