Sue Simpson💙

Nurse (rtd) mum, nana and Stretford Ender

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

OMG it’s me!!!!!
Wearing the mac.

[tphoto @tphoto2005]

Manchester Piccadilly Station in Manchester, UK
Manchester United vs Sheffield United at Old Trafford
on Sat. 23rd. August, 1975,
Photo by Masahide Tomikoshi / TOMIKOSHI PHOTOGRAPHY

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

5 foot 5 and dynamite
Skip to ma Lou Macari.
I think he may have shrunk slightly (like me). 😉
Very well deserved gong 😁

[Phil Gettings @GettingsPhil]

Well deserved MBE for Lou it should have been Sir Lou though .

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

@Zar_RedIssue @Reddevilfox I bet you did too? 😉

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

I’ve never seen this. I loved those players so much. Big Jim and Brian Greenhoff no longer with us 😢

[🇾🇪 @ManUtdHeritage]

United players give their thoughts on the possibility of relegation (1974) #MUFC

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

@Reddevilfox When I wanted autographs I used to wait under B block after the match.

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

@barneyronay identifies what’s wrong with Dalot. His legs are on the wrong way round! Great article.

https://t.co/wdzjt6jq1b

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

@oldunited4u That my friend was the album sleeve of the LP of the radio commentary of the 68 final. Side 1 was highlights of the 1st and 2nd half. Side 2 was the whole of extra time. Still got mine. 😁

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

Outstanding. And true bloody right about booing Dalot. Yes he’s useless but the fact he’s played over 250 games for the club is the clearest illustration of how badly run is this footfall club.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Jason Wilcox and Omar Berrada need to show some accountability. They can’t keep leaving it to Michael Carrick to take the heat for the mess Manchester United are in. Wilcox and Berrada are responsible for much of the mess. Wilcox has been United's director of football since June 2025 (and was sporting director from December 2024). Berrada has been chief executive since July 2024. They owe it to United supporters to try to explain the mess, and why a club that generates so much money ended up with two 20-year-olds at centre-back, and why the squad is imbalanced.

Even if talking only via in-house media and dodging issues of ownership and coach succession, Wilcox and Berrada need to demonstrate some contrition and give mutinous fans some hope that they will get things right (even if many fans want them gone).

Small violin but it can’t be easy sitting there in games watching this mess, hearing the chants about them, having the cameras on them. But it’s even worse for fans paying to sit there, watching Wilcox and Berrada’s poor stewardship of their beloved club. So show some leadership and address the mess. #MUFC

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

We were saying our goodbyes

[Olivia Mckenna @maxthumper99]

Carrick won't get sacked. No standards at this club. This shit show will continue. Wtf is wrong with Stretford end singing it's Carrick you know.

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

We were just saying farewell

[Rob Dawson @RobDawsonESPN]

Incredible ending. United fans singing in support of Carrick at the final whistle.

[Cheeses Of Nazareth @OhCheesesChrist]

Whether you agree or not, as match-going fans, we're not going to walk out of the stadium in protest of the owners - not in numbers that would be impactful.

Right now, I genuinely believe we need to stand together as United supporters. Whatever your thoughts on Green & Gold being visible inside the stadium, there's no denying that it's getting noticed. The media are picking up on the noise we're making, and that's important.

Green & Gold is a visual protest. Whether it's wearing the colours, throwing thousands of balloons up into the air or finding other ways to make our presence felt, doing something is better than doing nothing. We need to make ourselves visible.

Villa is on TV this Sunday. There were 4,000 balloons on Tuesday. Will there be even more this weekend? That's down to every single one of us.

It's time to build momentum, not lose it.

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

@kerry_davies For their first goal we on the Strettie were literally saying ‘Where was Dalot?’ 😂

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

Where is Dalot? I can’t breathe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Scott Patterson @R_o_M]

Can you imagine never going to a game in your life. Not knowing a single person who has a season ticket. Then telling the people whose lives have revolved around going to the football for decades, who’ve spent hours and hours of their life at protests, how to get Glazers out 😂

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

@DuyolsY @hockeynewsuk I’ve been protesting against the Glazers for over 20 years and against the Murdoch takeover prior to that. However I am painfully aware that nothing I do or think is going to make them sell up.

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

Spot on. For anyone who thinks Season Ticket holders are somehow complicit with the Glazers please read this. This is reality ⤵️

[Cheeses Of Nazareth @OhCheesesChrist]

I hear plenty of noise online about what matchgoers “ought” to do to force change, most notably demands that we leave Old Trafford empty or throw missiles onto the pitch to stop games.

If you don’t attend games regularly, it’s easy to look at things from a distance and assume it’s simply a matter of willpower. Here is the reality on the ground:

1. The “Boycott / Empty Seats” Myth

- The money is already banked: Around 46,000 seats belong to Season Ticket holders who pay in advance in May and June—before the previous season has even finished. Whether an ST holder sits in that seat or stays home, the Glazers already have the cash.

- Season ticket holders don’t control the stadium: If, on average, 20% of Season Ticket Holders forward or resell through official channels, you’re left with roughly half the stadium’s capacity. The remaining half of the capacity is filled by hospitality and general members paying premium prices, people who aren’t walking out or boycotting.

- Strict attendance enforcement: Season Ticket holders must physically attend or officially transfer at least 16 out of 19 Premier League home matches. If you fail to hit that threshold, the club revokes your ticket for the following season.

- You don’t create an empty stadium—you create a corporate one: With over 100,000 people on the waiting list and massive international tourism demand, any seat permanently vacated isn’t left empty. The club simply reclaims it and flips it into extortionate single-match membership prices or hospitality packages.

- The European comparison doesn’t work: Pointing to Serie A or the Bundesliga ignores the fundamental economics. Many of those clubs have cheap tickets, standing sections, and 50+1 fan ownership models. Old Trafford operates in a hyper-commercialised, sold-out market. Asking a local supporter to sacrifice a seat their family has held for 20, 30, or 40 years, only for it to be sold to a tourist five minutes later, gives the owners zero financial leverage.

2. Throwing Objects onto the Pitch

- It’s a specific criminal offence: Under the Football (Offences) Act 1991, throwing any missile onto the pitch or surrounding area is illegal.

- It ruins lives, not ownership: Old Trafford is blanketed by modern high-definition CCTV and facial recognition. Anyone caught doesn’t just face a club ban; they face mandatory court-issued Football Banning Orders (FBOs), the surrender of their passport during European fixtures, a criminal record, and potential loss of employment. Furthermore, with modern automated flagging and blanket ticketing investigations, which have been very poor on United’s part, when disorder breaks out, bystanders and innocent people nearby often get swept up in the fallout, losing access to tickets while lengthy club appeals grind on.

- Demanding that local matchgoers take on criminal records and jeopardise their livelihoods while you watch in a pub, on TV, or via an illegal stream isn’t a protest strategy; it’s completely detached from reality.

What Non-Matchgoers Can ACTUALLY Do to Hit the Model: The club’s ownership model is built on one thing: commercial monetisation of the global audience. That is where you have direct leverage.

- Hit the vanity metrics: Unfollow the club's official accounts on X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. The club pitches these raw follower numbers to prospective commercial partners every day.

- Direct consumer feedback to commercial partners: Brands invest heavily for positive sentiment. When supporters collectively make it clear across sponsor channels that partnering with negligent ownership carries a reputational cost, commercial teams take notice.

- Starve the Megastore: Stop buying official kits, training apparel, and club subscriptions. If you want United gear, buy retro or support independent fan-made apparel.

- Back fan-led advocacy: Support independent fan media, fanzines, and the Supporters Trust. Collective, legal, and political pressure moves the needle; reckless armchair advice does not.

If we want change, it requires collective discipline across the entire fanbase—not asking matchgoers to commit financial or legal suicide just to make a 30-second point on television.

There’s no divide here: it isn’t matchgoers versus non-matchgoers; it’s all of us. If we aren’t united, we achieve nothing, and that failure rests on every single Manchester United supporter.

A better-formatted version of this post is here: https://t.co/tssenn23Cf

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

@hockeynewsuk The Glazers don’t give a shit what any of us think or indeed do.

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

@UtdForever7 @philstandish Leny was my MOTM on Tuesday

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

@hockeynewsuk The Glazers are only interested in money. If I did as you say they still have my money.

[Sue Simpson💙 @simpsosh]

Just when I thought I couldn’t love Eric more ❤️

[Added Time @AddedtimeX_]

🚨 Eric Cantona on the United fan shouting at Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox as they left the directors’ box:

🗣️ Cantona: “The fan was right to shout.
Security had to get involved. Of course they did.

Because that is what happens when the people who run the club forget who the club actually belongs to.
Berrada and Wilcox walk out of the directors’ box and a supporter has had enough. He says what he has been thinking for a long time. And suddenly it is a problem that needs security.

The problem is not the fan. The problem is the people who have been making the decisions that led to him shouting in the first place.

This club used to have standards. It used to have people who understood what it meant to wear the shirt. Who understood that the fans were not just customers. They were the reason the place existed.

Now the people upstairs make their choices. They spend the money. They pick the direction. And when it goes wrong, they walk past the anger like it has nothing to do with them.

That fan was not out of control. He was saying what a lot of people have been thinking. And he was saying it to the people who are supposed to be responsible for it.

You cannot keep taking the support and then act surprised when someone finally decides they have had enough. You cannot keep failing and then expect silence when you leave the ground.

The security staff did their job. But the people who needed to hear that message were the ones walking past it.

And until they start listening, there will be more fans who decide they have waited long enough.”