Manchester United owner Jim Ratcliffe is one of those special types of patriots, the type that would do anything for his country except live of pay taxes in it.
Overlooking that his squad is made up of 75% non English born players, the businessman who urged people to vote for Brexit and then naffed off to Monaco once it turned into a car crash, has been spouting off about how Britain is being colonised by immigrants.
He backed up his assertion by quoting completely wrong figures and explained that immigrants cost the UK too much money although it must have slipped his mind when he went begging the Government for £125 million to pay for funding his business Ineos or the £2 billion Wembley of the North stadium project despite having £17.5 billion shoved away in his off shore bank account.
While the usual right wing dullards such as Nigel Farage have of course applauded the United co-owner’s ‘straight-talking’ it has not gone down so well in less racist circles. The UK prime minister, the Greater Manchester mayor and assorted United fan groups have been among many, many folk to condemn his deranged comments about and making a point of pointing out the hypocrisy given his own immigrant status as a tax-dodging resident of a Mediterranean principality.
Keir Starmer took a break from fighting to save his own job and barked that Ratcliffe should apologise but it was more likely the FA assessment into whether Ratcliffe has brought the game into disrepute and banned from Old Trafford that forced him to weasel the non-apology apology that he was sorry if his choice of words offended anyone.
Obviously, only sorry that Britain is not as enlightened as him for being appalled by his terrible, far right-wing views.