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They don’t have a background in football. They rarely attend matches – perhaps for fear of being lynched. Yet they continue to turn Manchester United from a healthy business into one whose profits are largely used to pay off the debt that they have created.

And get this – they are now going to pay themselves a £15m dividend per year for putting the club in hundreds of millions of pounds worth of debt.

Even as a football loving neutral, this makes my blood boil.

Because it’s yet another example of the working masses getting screwed over by ‘The Man’.

The worst bit about it is that it feels as if nothing can be done. These charlatans have such a big stake in the club (around 80 percent) that they can continue to drain the profits and redirect cash into their accounts at the same time.

But, we must remember, that a huge proportion of Manchester United’s revenue still comes from the fans who pay to see their club each week.

If the fans simply stopped going to Old Trafford, en masse, then the Glazers would surely soon realise that their business model was no longer paying dividends.

And that is, after all, what they are in it for. Cash. If their investment looks shaky they will sell to the highest bidder in a flash.

Manchester United supporters group, MUST, tried to affect a boycott in 2012. It didn’t work on the grounds that many fans felt it would affect team performances.

But we feel that it’s got to the point where the very future of the club is in danger.

A short-term hit on the pitch may be necessary in order to get these Machiavellian liquidators out of the club so that Manchester United can start to use their revenue for stadium, youth and squad development again rather than to pay off the interest on the biggest credit card bill in the world.

A sustained boycott of Old Trafford would appear to be the surest way to get rid of The Glazers. It’s the only way that Manchester United fans may be able to wrest control of the club back into their own hands. The only sure way of making a difference.

Until this happens, Manchester United fans are going to have to periodically read new stories about how the Glazers are finding additional ways to leech money from this, historically, working man’s club.