🗣️WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
To every Red who turned up yesterday, thank you.
You gave your time, your voice and your support. Nobody at The 1958 takes that for granted. Whatever this club does to eradicate the time served match going Red. You know you have been on the right side of history.
We will continue the fight on all fronts.
Protecting the culture. Protect the traditions. Protect the matchgoing fan. Protect what is left for the next generation.
We will continue to protest against the way STH and match going Reds have been treated. The club simply can’t get away with this level of bullying again.
We’ll continue to work with and strengthen the unified fan group agreement.
We’ll continue to push for greater power and influence for match going fans within the Fans Forum and how this can be elevated by the incoming IFR.
So, where do we go from here?
That’s something we’ll decide together over the next few weeks.
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All @ManUtd match-going Reds need to read this. Many will know my brother Harry. Has worked his socks off for fans for decades. I won my appeal, but the tone in the response painted a clear picture of the future. I stood with him and returned my Platinum #SeasonTicket too. 🔴⚪️⚫️
All the words are there, but the actions paint the true story.
For a club the size of Manchester United, this is an incredibly thin “Fan Engagement Plan”. Strip away the meetings, working groups, surveys, commitments to continue doing what already exists and promises to consult, and what are the meaningful new deliverables?
A fan zone. More beer taps. Self service bars. Digital menus. Street food. An Amazon documentary.
Where is the ambition on ticketing? Affordability? Atmosphere? Protecting matchgoing supporters? Meaningful supporter influence? Accountability? Or rebuilding trust between the club and its fanbase?
Fan engagement should be measured by what changes because supporters were listened to, not by how many meetings were held or surveys completed.
The words say engagement.
The clubs actions continue to tell the real story.
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You’re quick to call us the best! You’re quick to show us off! You’re quick to post videos of Crystal Palace away when we got hammered 4-0 on Wednesday night and we stayed for 30 mins after the game singing with a 4 hour trip home! You want to ban these fans!
We're all a bit confused about the two penalty decisions but worry not, Dermot Gallagher will be in the @SkySportsNews studio on Monday to tell us how both decisions were absolutely spot on by the brilliant Stuart Atwell.
More Monday night football for MUFC.
Both April home league games switched. Zero - absolutely zero - consideration given to what match going fans think or want.
Follow Up Fulham Protest ✊
Thank you to the thousands of fans who turned out before the Fulham game. Your presence mattered. It showed that fan culture at this club is still alive and still prepared to stand up when it is directly attacked. This action gained national and worldwide media coverage.
Protests matter culturally and on an emotional level. They let the club and ownership know that we are watching. That we are not going away and that we are not fucking happy.
This protest was about ticket prices, access, atmosphere and supporter culture. It was about the systematic removal of ordinary fans so football can be sanitised, globalised and sold back to us at ever increasing prices. This is not accidental. It is a choice being made by those who see football as a product rather than a community.
Protests are not and never have been a silver bullet. They require dedication, commitment and an unyielding belief.
Old Trafford 🏟️
Old Trafford is our home. Not a commodity. Not a branding exercise. Not a development opportunity. It is the last physical link many supporters have to this club, alongside terrace traditions handed down through families and generations.
Ticketing & Fan Culture 🎟️
We will continue to stand for fan culture and for affordable football for this generation, the next generation and those yet to be born. Football without supporters is nothing.
Responsible Ownership ⚖️
We want responsible ownership. Let there be no ambiguity. Not the Glazers. Not INEOS. Neither represent responsibility, accountability or respect for Manchester United or its supporters. Protests have never been about results, managers or signings. They weren’t in 2005. They weren’t in 2010. They never have been since. We will support this club and this team no matter what happens on the pitch. That support is unconditional. Our opposition to ownership that harms the club is not.
To those who mock, to those who sneer and to those who laugh while doing fuck all, it says more about the type of person you are than anything else. To those who seem obsessed by us (probably bots or idiots) but have been blocked by our automation, seriously get a fucking life. To the too cool for school crowd distracted by a couple of decent results and thinking this doesn’t affect you, it will. Ask yourselves where this road leads.
You will not be laughing when tickets cost £100 to £150 per game. You will not be laughing when you are sat in a soulless bowl stripped of identity and filled with Americanised bollocks. You will not be laughing when families can’t be introduced to our club. Everything that once made our club and English football the envy of the world is being hollowed out for profit.
We do not do this for recognition. We monetise nothing. We gain nothing. There is no hidden agenda. This is purely about love for our club and for those who passed it on to us in the right way.
That is our only motivation.
Family.
Club.
Community.
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Played his part in all 3 goals Liverpool conceded. At 34 years of age, presumably @Carra23 will be on #MNF telling him to leave the football before the football leaves him. Or is that only reserved for players who have won 5 Champions Leagues?
The reason why everybody hates them so much is because they pretend to be something they’re not. Lads you don’t need to cover up your face, you live in Camden and work in recruitment