Former Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards has explained why they went close to a takeover by BSkyB.
Edwards recommended a takeover bid from BSkyB, worth £623million, when he was at the Old Trafford helm.
"I thought Sky would have taken Manchester United to a level where nobody could have got near us," he said in a new book by Andy Mitten, Glory, Glory! Man United in the 1990s.
"That's why I recommended their offer in 1998. When they approached us, we had gone 30 years without winning the European Cup.
"I felt that they could have pushed us on to the next level."
