Woodward's stewardship at Old Trafford can probably be summed up by the following tale, which occurred long after he twice pulled out of scheduled interviews with your super soaraway RI at the last minute (heeding the advice of Comms Director Phil Townsend not to go ahead)...
Fast forward to a deserted Hilton bar in Cardiff, the night before the 2017 CL final: Our correspondent is catching up with a couple of pals when a coachload of drunken UEFA delegates walk in, W'ward and Gill among them.
"Not in here, mate" pleaded our man's drinking company.
Of all the seats in all the bars in all the world, W'ward opts to perch himself on the back of the one our chap is sitting in, whereupon he chirps up, "Oh, it's Woodward!"
He turns round, gurning, expecting to be asked for a selfie. "Get yourself off my seat, you wanker!"
The gurn quickly turning to shock, he's hit with "You're a Grade 1 coward cancelling those interviews with Red Issue, now fuck off!"
W'ward stuttered and spluttered out something in an attempt to reply, before scuttling off to the next table.
"Oh, you've done it now" groaned our chap's mates, with security expected to be summoned at any stage.
Next thing, there's a tap on the shoulder, but it's not security - it's an animated looking W'ward, saying: "Come on then, let's do it!"
!!!
He's just about to get flattened,
when W'ward is asked to clarify exactly what he means. "The interview, let's do it."
Oh! Right! (Lucky escape.)
W'ward takes contact details & promises the interview will go ahead the following week.
It gets passed to Phil Townsend to arrange, who insists Ed is rather busy 🙄
Another week or two, and the excuse turns into "Oh, Ed says he never promised an interview. He just wants an off-the-record chat."
"A Billy-big-balls who never managed to deliver."
The epitaph to a very inglorious reign.
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It’s time, time to expose @WebbyONeill and his treacherous collaborations with Ed Woodward and the Glazers.
He has spent 16 years clamping down on fan dissent, to the extent that suspicion was widespread that he stuck people’s names in to Cheshire Police.
Read on...
The whole sorry tale has long been laid out in the pgs of @RedRebels2005 - a Penguin publication that underwent intensive legal readings.
The Purple Army Corporal consulted a solicitor about its contents but slumped off when informed he can’t take a libel case out on the truth.
In 2010 when the Glazer Bond issue inspired the Green & Gold protests, @WebbyONeill hijacked a public meeting to insist that “yes something must be done” but that “no, not just yet.”
It had the effect of stifling momentum. Just what the Glazers and Woodward would have wanted 🤔
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