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After leaders of the Manchester United soccer club announced a $1 billion agreement to sell the British franchise to one of Rupert Murdoch’s television companies, London’s Daily Mirror, a heated business rival of the media emperor, responded.

Its front-page headline?

“Sold To The Red Devil”

The headline was next to a picture of Murdoch with horns.