The storm clouds have been gathering over the Kingston Communications Stadium for some time. And now Chris Donkin in When Saturday Comes sticks the boot in himself, more at Hull City as a club than the team on the pitch.

Chris has already received something of a rebuke for his views. And those of us in the know at Soccernet Towers are also aware of devoted Hull fans who think Phil Brown should be shown the door. And the fans are sure to appreciate Chris' accusation that they are all really Man United fans.

Seeing your club's popularity grow should be a good thing. The problem is that the new fans have hopelessly unrealistic expectations. For most, City only entered their consciousness when Dean Windass powered home the winner in the play-off final against Bristol City, after a season where the team won far more games than they lost. As a result they expect the side to win every week and if they don't the manager gets the blame and has to go.

Longer-term fans have better memories and you will hear few true supporters calling for Phil Brown's head. Were it not for Brown the club would have certainly been relegated from the Championship in 2007. Then by the end of his first full season he'd rebuilt the team and achieved promotion to the top tier for the first time in the club's history. Of course, when the inevitable happens and City's tenure among the elite expires, these new fans are the ones most likely to not renew their tickets and go back to their armchairs to watch Man Utd rather than trek to watch a rainy Tuesday evening match against Blackpool.

Sadly, the club doesn't share this concern... By prior standards Hull fans are now supporting a "big club", which many didn't choose to. Hull people who wanted to support a top-tier club in the 1980s or 1990s mostly went off and supported Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds, Man Utd or Liverpool. Now those who didn't really want to support a Premier League team suddenly do. In the big league everyone knows your team and unfortunately that also means everyone knows when they lose 5-0 too.

After seeing Rio Ferdinand's form questioned, Sir Alex Ferguson hauled up in front of the FA and a number of fans arrested following Tuesday's Carling Cup tie against Barnsley, the last thing that Manchester United needed on Wednesday morning was more adverse publicity.

But that is exactly what confronts us in the Mirror this morning, with Oliver Holt spreading fear amongst the United support. In 'Beware Manchester United fans, the Glazers are happy to pass the buck', Holt highlights a potential problem with the club's American ownership.

If I was a Manchester United fan, the alarm bells ringing in my head would be keeping me awake at night. Not because of what happened at Anfield at the weekend. Although the defeat to Liverpool is part of the bigger picture. Not because Dimitar Berbatov is still not the force United need him to be. Or because Rio Ferdinand is still clearly struggling with injury and lack of confidence. Or because United's midfield misses Darren Fletcher more than it should do when he is not available.

No, I'd be more worried about what happened at Wembley on Sunday evening than I would be about what happened at Anfield on Sunday afternoon. I'd be looking at what United's owners, the Glazer family, have done to their other sporting property, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and thinking that what happens in America usually happens in England soon afterwards.

On Sunday evening at Wembley, the Glazers' Buccaneers were hammered 35-7 by the New England Patriots in the NFL's annual excursion to these shores. Tampa Bay hardly provide a ringing endorsement of the Glazers' ownership qualities or their ability to provide the team with enough money to compete with the rest of the league.

The defeat to the Patriots means they have now lost all seven of their matches this season, a distinction they share only with the St Louis Rams among the 32 NFL teams.

A big reason for that is that the Glazers have spent less on players than any other owners in the NFL this season. They are a whopping £19million under the league's salary cap, a record low for the NFL, and £14million less than the average spend.

Holt's contention is that the Glazers' debt repayments have caught up with United and that could be behind their reluctance to make a superstar signing in the wake of Cristiano Ronaldo's £80 million move to Real Madrid. But could a personal vendetta be behind the article? Holt freely admits he is not exactly a fan of the Glazer family.

My solitary collision with the people skills of the Glazer boys was less than heart-warming.

I caught up with Bryan Glazer in Tampa earlier this year before the Super Bowl but when I got close enough to ask him a tame question, a neanderthal in sunglasses and a suit strong-armed me out of the way while Glazer fled on a golf cart.

I wouldn't have minded but it wasn't as if he was being pursued by a mob of angry United supporters. He had just spoken at an NFL Kids Day.

He'd been trying to come over all folksy for the children but the jokes were lame and it was obvious we were deep in charisma-bypass territory.