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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🗣️PROTEST DETAILS | Fulham Sunday 1 Feb 🔴✊
🕐 Time: 1pm
📍 Dual locations:
Meeting Point A: Top of Sir Matt Busby Way/Chester Rd
Meeting Point B: Outside Hotel Football
Both groups will converge at the Trinity.
Maybe a surprise on the day that reflects our dysfunctional, inept ownership.
🔥 Bring the heat
🔊 Bring the noise
❤️ Bring your love for the club
See you Sunday.
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Steve sat down with @JayMotty to cover some of the reasons why we are protesting on Sunday👇
Have a listen.
2 start points. One message.
See you Sunday!
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Fan Coalition 58 FC58
The Greatest Club in the World
NEEDS
the Greatest Fan Representation
in the World
This year we received an unprecedented mandate to represent our fanbase in matters of great importance. We are not going to let you down.
Whilst we closely monitor the potential for Sir Jim to remove the Glazers from the club, we will create the organisation to forcibly make it happen if that is necessary.
Currently everyone is in a state of limbo and it’s pragmatic to let things play out and run a natural course.
However, we see this as a window of opportunity and a lot of works been going on behind the scenes. We have not been sitting idle.
Today we announce the creation of FC58 an alternative supporters collective and representation. A true independent fan coalition.
This will be the largest, active, passionate and independent fan coalition on the planet.
This is founded on our values, credibility and integrity we have built from nothing and doing the right thing for our club and fanbase, no matter what the consequences.
The demands of our supporters that are in the best interests of everything Sir Matt Busby created, will no longer be ignored, patronised or silenced.
This will be outlined in our Supporters Charter of what we stand for and represent, which hasn’t taken us 18 years to release.
Further details will be released outlining all the information over the comings weeks.
We have big plans. We have big ambitions. We will succeed.
Stay tuned and follow our new website for how you can get involved.
https://t.co/EG5wgItip2
There is work to be done.
PURPOSE-ACTION-RESULTS
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🛑 WHY PROTEST? 🛑
🚫 Increase in draconian attendance regulations
💷 Price hikes for kids and concessions
🚨 Heavy handed bans at aways because of I.D. demands and removal of season tickets for long serving matchgoers
📉 2,500 season ticket holders gone from Old Trafford in just 2 years 🤔
🎟️ Increase in tickets appearing on resale sites
❌ Removal of away ballot statistics and transparency
📸 Social media influencers popping up at Leeds away 🤷🏻♂️
🙉 An ownership that ignores fan reps and supporter groups
🚪 Massive turnstile queues caused by cuts to stewarding
👷♂️ Time served, experienced stewards sacked or not renewed
📉 Steward numbers slashed, safety and fan experience treated as expendable
🧬 A deliberate strategy to dilute fan culture and erase generations of supporters who made United what it is
🇺🇸 A strategy to turn our game into a commercialised American product
🎪Flaunting a Disneyland circus stadium no STH fucking wants!
🤬 They do what they want and fuck over the fans
⚠️ It’s only going to get worse
⚠️ And they WILL get to you, don’t think they won’t.
⏰ 1PM
📍 Two meeting points
📢 Be loud. Be seen. Be there. 🔥
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🗣️DO NOT GET DISTRACTED BY CLUB & PRESS PR
Intended to move the narrative away from the real issues at the club.
Glazers, Ratcliffe and INEOS
We deserve better and our traditions need to be respected.
• Show fans are important with actions and not platitudes
• Reward loyalty stop exploiting it
• Act as the blueprint for other clubs to follow in protecting loyalty and fan culture
• Sort the ticketing and fairness system out
• Remove the profit and loss mandate for the ticket office its the wild west.
• Start acting like a bastion of the premier league
Performances on the pitch, signings, managers and a Disneyland circus stadium experience are secondary.
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🚨𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆
Manchester United’s anthem “Take Me Home, United Road,”
popularly known as “The United Road Song,” has been voted the best football anthem in the world 🥇📡⚽🎵
🚨🇳🇴 Ole Gunnar Solskjær has shown interest in taking Manchester United job as caretaker manager, regardless of contract length.
Man United, taking their time to assess candidates for the job.
Darren Fletcher will be interim manager this week.
➕🎥 https://t.co/b15UuScYZS
🚨 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would be more than open to return to Man United as a caretaker manager, regardless of how long the tenure would be. Internal discussions at the club are ongoing regarding potential candidates. [@FabrizioRomano, YT] #mufc
🚨🏴 Borussia Dortmund and Man United plan to have new contacts in the next days for Marcus Rashford.
AC Milan are closing in on Walker deal, while BVB will explore more details of Rashford loan…
…and Barça remain very keen, based on Ansu Fati’s future.
🚨⚪️🟢 Real Betis are closing in on Antony deal with Man United!
Final details of the agreement being discussed, loan move until June with NO option clause currently included.
Antony has opened doors to the move, Man United will also cover part of the salary.
🚨 Rúben Amorim: “You can see the mentality today. That was crucial, it’s not about the tactics or the system”.
“We should get mad and disappointed… MORE than against Newcastle, Bournemouth, Nottingham... today, we need to be really disappointed”.