No one could have imagined that a football club takeover issue would reach the floor of the British Parliament and trigger reactions across legal, academic, and political circles.
The controversy surrounding Rupert Murdoch's attempted acquisition of Manchester United drew attention from many city law firms, an economics professor at Birkbeck College, and ten other economists, who together helped the Manchester United Independent Supporters' Association (MUISA) draft a formal submission to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
