9:00am Friday 11th August 2006
By Nick Churchill
HAVING won its premiere in an internet auction, Bournemouth's Elements nightclub hosts its first public screening on Thursday.
Manchester Disunited & Other Football Feuds is a personal essay by self-confessed football fanatic Adrian Goldberg, the former chief investigative reporter for BBC1's Watchdog consumer affair programme.
He examines how community assets such as football clubs have been taken over and are now controlled by a wealthy few who have no sense of tradition and no feeling for the clubs they now own.
Although he focusses on the American Glazer family's controversial takeover of Manchester United, Goldberg also looks at what has happened at Chelsea and Wimbledon and compares the stories to events at Barcelona where the club is now effectively owned by thousands of its fans.
He celebrates the formation of new, breakaway clubs like FC United and AFC Wimbledon that were born out of fans' frustration with the lack of action by the game's controlling bodies who have failed to prevent FCs from being turned into PLCs.
Unashamedly one-sided, passionate and amusing, it's a call to arms to every true football fan.
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