Suspect a few well timed baton swings will persuade them otherwise.
Protest at Old Trafford
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Likely.
Fully behind the fans.
Exactly. Nothing changes unless you interrupt. They’ll walk all over people until shit happens
- Gary Flintoff (BBC)
-So the only damage confirmed is some chairs thrown around and a flair thrown in the direction of a press platform.
-The megastore and stadium were breached. The dressing room was not breached.
It’s what happens in so many protests and why I am generally disillusioned with them. Went on many in my late tens and early twenties for a number of things, before swearing never again. They’d generally have an element more intent on inciting violence and causing vandalism, and the majority wouldn’t have an informed opinion anyway. The number of disciplined and committed protests that actually positively contribute to their cause is minimal.
I'm not advocating this but wouldn't it have been slightly more prudent to get in the ground somehow and interrupt the match itself?
Anyway, fans have done well so far. Just keep it peaceful. Keep going.
Anyway, fans have done well so far. Just keep it peaceful. Keep going.
United team bus still at the Lowry. Hard to see the kick off not being affected, either delayed kick off or match postponed. Either way, well in lads, this has had major impact. Feck the Glazers.
Couldn’t agree more
Rebecca Lowe of NBCSN saying the protesters are attempting to prevent the player's buses from leaving the hotel
Great post.
Anyone sanctimoniously having a go at lads who have gone out today to fight for our club should give their heads a wobble.
Seems unlikely, but a delayed start might be wise.
Lucky fecker took a ball in and was shooting into the Stretford End. 
No United supporter would throw a missile at Roy Keane. Majority that invaded the stadium just there for the trouble.
Might happen yet if anybody has found a hiding place in there.
Camera was tossed as well.
Owners who never show up to matches aren't going to be arsed by this anyway.
It's the staff, the players and everyone else who is, and they're the ones who have done nothing wrong.
It's amazing how many of you suddenly think trespassing is an ok thing to do
It's the staff, the players and everyone else who is, and they're the ones who have done nothing wrong.
It's amazing how many of you suddenly think trespassing is an ok thing to do
Perhaps there’s security working who are anti-Glazer.
Hit the nail on the head. Top post!
Think that would just affect the players and staff more than it would the owners.
Don't think there's anyone at the Lowrey, it's the case they don't want to travel to OT until the protest outside have stopped.
looks like pitch cleared, but people in the stands
The guy being shown just now on NBC is the guy who tossed the camera. Saw him again a bit ago trying to pull one of the big tarp banners up off the seats. He was just on the pitch again. Making quite a day of it.
Amen to that!
Oh well guess nobody should say anything then, its all pointless so why bother. Maybe we should stop singing songs at games too.
The buses won’t leave the team hotels until they know it is safe to do so. Might be called off yet but highly doubt it.
- Gary Flintoff (BBC)
Another group just invade the pitch. The game is probably in the real danger being canceled now. The guy throwing away the camera rack is among them.
Not even necessarily that. If there's 4 security guards at a particular entrance and 200 people are trying to get in, you just let them in.
They're obviously not going to wreck the place and a physical confrontation would be terrible for both sides of this.
Again, we don't that. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. We should all be supporting non-violent protests against the Glazers. We can't judge everyone by the actions of an idiotic few. We need the dust to settle and then make informed judgements.
My mate is at the Lowry and he's next to a guy on his phone talkin to somebody at the ground and telling him to get in to the changing rooms before the Liverpool coach arrives. Making the changing rooms no longer covid safe and having the game scrapped
Doubt they're even watching it on NBC. The staff in charge will be sorting it out and dealing with the aftermath and the owners will just sit back and continue doing what they do.Owners who never show up to matches aren't going to be arsed by this anyway.
It's the staff, the players and everyone else who is, and they're the ones who have done nothing wrong.
It's amazing how many of you suddenly think trespassing is an ok thing to do
I mean if you want an example of the ineptitude that runs throughout the club it would be how hundreds of fans managed to get onto the pitch in the first place
Needs to pull his pants up
Very hard to organise a large obvious protest using those methods.
This protest was a good idea and I'm happy to see the large turnout. It will get a lot of coverage
I think if it had been 100% peaceful the message would have been really strong. It’s going to be muddled now and in some ways even damaging. We want the media on our side images of fans smashing media equipment is really un helpful.
realistically we all have to remember the only way the Glazers leave is if some one with billions of pounds spare comes in and buys the club, seeing even a minority of fans acting like thugs is not going to help temp multi billionaires into investing in us.
Protests are useful as they may encourage the glazers to sell if a bid does come in, but without that bid Glazers are going nowhere no matter how much people protest.
That’s fecking brilliant.
No, it idiotic. The owners won't give a flying one about any of this with so much equity (profit) further down the line.
Apparently the ref has been turned away from the stadium. We'll probably end up giving away the three points for this.
Absolutely buoyed to see the fans out in such numbers. This will be impossible to ignore. Keep it up 