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Manchester United retain Bryan Robson as ambassador in face of Dispatches backlash
Manchester United will retain Bryan Robson as their global ambassador until they get a chance to watch Channel Four's Dispatches, which was screened last night.
As revealed by The Telegraph, the programme secretly filmed the former England and Manchester United captain giving advice on how to circumvent Football Association rules on owning more than one football club.
In one clip, Robson, 54, working for London Nominees Football Fund, says: "I disagree with people when they say football is a sport. When the Sky [TV] money came in, that changed. Football is a business."
Other members of the fund talked about loopholes that enabled foreign owners, with the help of offshore bank accounts and front groups, to buy two English clubs.
Robson and another associate boasted how they would get players on loan from United once they had bought one or two of the Championship and Football League clubs they claim are open to take over.
There was immediate backlash from United supporters, with many of them calling on the social network site Twitter for Robson to be stripped of his ambassador's role.
But a United spokesman said: "We've not had chance to review the programme as we are on a tour of the US."
Robson, who won 90 England caps between 1980 and 1991, met the undercover team alongside Joe Sim, chief adviser to the Thai FA during Robson's stay in Bangkok.
Sim boasted of his friendship with Sir Alex Ferguson, and showed mobile phone pictures of the two together.
Ferguson's lawyers said in a statement: "It would be fair to say he (Ferguson) does not see their relationship in the same close way that Mr Sim appears to have represented it."