Yeah I thought your last post was comical but this one is completely insane.
Firstly, you are looking at it all wrong. You keep going on about it being people from England vs people not from England. United have plenty of season ticket holders who live abroad. You can be a season ticket holder or an member while living anywhere in the world. Now, yes, season ticket holders do get advantages over members in that their seat is guaranteed for home games and they can apply for domestic away games (once they have held the ST for 3+ years). But rightly so because they have paid £559-950 (£19x the match time price) for that seat. If they wish to apply for away games after holding that ticket for 3+ years they must also be opted in to cup games too, meaning that as soon as we get drawn at home the ticket office take money for the home cup game. So essentially you must be continually giving the club money in order to apply for away tickets, away tickets which by the way so far this season have seen 11k-12k applications for an average of less than 3k tickets. Why the hell would they open that up to more people when it's already massively oversubscribed?
Second, you seem upset that "every United fan should have the same access to matches". Take out a membership and buy a ticket. It's not difficult, for Brentford there were loads of tickets on the website in the couple of weeks before the game. There are normal prices tickets available for the Luton game next month available right now too. You could live on the moon and once you've got a membership you have the exact same access to tickets as a member living on Railway Road or Salford Quays.
Third, as you have focussed on
@VivaObertan's mum - to be clear I don't know VO and don't want to speak out of turn, but using her as an example. If someone has a season ticket with both the mens team and the womens team, and follows both all over the UK, have you considered that 2 european aways may be the limit of their affordability over that period due to how much they are already spending following the teams? Not least the time commitment of following the teams several days every week. Perhaps it might be fair to suggest that is a slightly bigger financial and time commitment than spending a few euros on a TV subscription, turning the tv on at 14:58 and back off to carry on with your day at 16:58. And that is before you take into account the fact that if you haven't booked your flight within the first 5 minutes after any european cup draw, that the flight prices have gone up tenfold. I booked Copenhagen for £38 return as soon as the dates were announced, looked the other day at taking my Mrs and the same flights were £360 (the week later? Flights are still less than £50).
Fourth, United's european away system rewards loyalty. So anyone who had been to 4 or more aways over the past two years was guaranteed a ticket to Copenhagen and Galatasary. So 4+ get a window, then 3+, then 2+ etc. So are you suggesting that loyalty shouldn't rewarded and european aways should be a free for all for literally anyone willing to drop £35 on a membership? The 5% ticket holdback for 0 creditors was a nice idea but the reality is it was completely unnecessary. Every european away over the past two years has gone to zero credits prior to Copenhagen, which sold out on 3 credits. Those 0 creditors could have gone to literally any previous game over the past 2 years but chose not to and were rewarded by the United with 100+ tickets only available to them. Not to those who missed out in the 3+ sale, or those on 2 or 1. And that was wrong, simple as that. The 5% holdback is perhaps a fair idea if we get back to a time where every european away sells out to those already on the ladder, so as to avoid it becoming a closed shop, but until then it should be put back in its box as it was completely unfair.
Fifth, I do actually have experience of being on your side of this too, I just think the entitlement level is off the scale. I watch an MLS team bizarrely, they tend to kick off between 12:30am and 1am every weekend and some midweeks; I travel to watch them a couple of times a year. Why should I be as important to them as their season ticket holders, who are at the games every week and travel around the country watching them? Next year, when they are in the Concacaf Champions Cup, why the hell should I get the same access to away tickets in Mexico, Costa Rica, Caribbean etc as their bread and butter fanbase? By all means I'll want to go to a game or two, but if they sell out to their regulars, who am I to complain?