The world's richest man has just told Manchester United fans anti-Glazer protests are working

Manchester United suffered their most humiliating defeat for 50 years on Saturday and the world's richest man Elon Musk, worth an estimated $250 billion, tweeted that he was going to buy the club just three days later. It is never dull reporting on United.

"Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome," Musk nonchalantly tweeted at 1:01 AM BST. The tweet has over 500,000 likes but it didn't take long for the American and CEO of Tesla to retract his statement "This is a long-running joke on Twitter. I’m not buying any sports teams," Musk added four hours later. "Although, if it were any team, it would be Man U. They were my fav team as a kid."

Musk acted swiftly to clarify his initial tweet, but supporters have continued to message him in their thousands, pleading with him to free the club from the Glazers' shackles. Musk is an investor in private spaceflight and he enjoys making dreams a reality. United fans woke up on Wednesday morning with hope that Musk would make their dream of freeing their club from the Glazers a reality.

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The Glazers control and 'run' United from Tampa Bay, Florida but they might as well be on another planet. They are alien to how custodians of an elite football club should act and they are responsible for the failures at Old Trafford over the last decade.

United fans have consistently protested against the Glazers. They have never accepted the American owners after a controversial leveraged buyout of the club in 2005, which has led to United paying a staggering £743m in interest since that takeover.

Rather unsurprisingly, United are the only Premier League club to pay dividends to their