Protest at Old Trafford
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fecking hell. Money really does talk
Thats certainly debateable. I can speak for myself hand on heart and say after the superleague debacle the season, europa league, summer signings pale insignificance to me at the moment. I would happily take sanctions and punishment on the club with the spotlight heat firmly on the owners
Sky basically saying they support any fan actions up to but not including a match being postponed.
I wonder if the PL can even make a decision fast enough to play it tomorrow! Normally takes them a week to even get off their @rses!
Someone made the good shout of having it somewhere neutral.
I think they should do that, and not declare it.
They got that bomb scare game on the next day. But that was an idiot bunch of "security" guys making a massive gaffe. Not hordes of goons storming in.
They must fear them coming back tomorrow.
Land of the free apparently. Free speech not allowed though.
If they just give the points to Liverpool, all the other sides jostling for top four will sue - and rightly so
Let's not pretend football doesn't attract some of the worst people in society. It does. I've been at matches where fans have ripped out plastic seating to throw at each other.
Do not let the message of the many be drowned out by the actions of the few. Peaceful protest is the right of every individual.
Do not let the message of the many be drowned out by the actions of the few. Peaceful protest is the right of every individual.
Yeah, this has fecked their schedule up so It won't really go down well with them.
Rome!
Don’t think so. Unless Liverpool had been as bad as Spurs were against us, they would most likely have achieved a draw today as we played on Thursday and they had the week off.
Spend hours of their screen time whipping football fans up and down the pyramid into a frenzy when they haven't got the rights to the competition in question, lose their mind when it affects something they do have rights to.
Please only protest up until the point that the protest becomes inconvenient for me personally.
Well it's either tomorrow or Tuesday (small chances as it's only 2 days from our game vs Roma) or Liverpool getting 3-0 win automatically imo, don't think they'd agree to playing 3 games in 6 days because of our fans entering Old Trafford today
Sky trying their best to keep football going now that the SL thing has died. This is not good for their greedy pockets, so ofcourse this is protest is a problem.
Also, love this whole PR move how United is worried about safety of their players, if they spin a bit more, tomorrow it will turn how protest was vs Ole and players.
So much for solidarity, eh, mate? Protests are fine, but I'm a customer
Bollocks!
What will this change? They could try and sell the club, but to who? Another rich person. This 50 + 1 idea will never happen. Even if the government forced the sale, you would still have to pay market value for the club, so there is no getting it cheaper. Who is going to raise the $1.8 billion needed to even buy half of the club? These protests are based on a hope that you can get an all giving owner. No amount of protesting will change an owner into that.
People have some unrealistic expectations of the next owners. Some want a sugar daddy who is not only going to shell out billions (without leverage) to buy the club, but then decide to take absolutely nothing out of it, and also pay off the club's debt. You don't need just a rich person; even most of the 2,755 billionaires in the world couldn't afford to do that. Others don't want a foreign owner, so that limits it to 56 billionaires. Even amongst those who could afford it, you are going to have to find one who would have no want to take dividends etc.
The chance of finding a buyer that fits that category is actually very low. And even some of those wouldn't be considered acceptable e.g. Saudi interest.
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If youre relying on opposition to lose to qualify you arent good enough to be in the champions league anyway so dont worry too much
And some folks are actually falling for it!
Fair point, and you certainly won’t be alone. There’s clearly a long game at stake here, on which this is the first move.
You accuse me of putting words in your mouth and then go and respond by putting words in my mouth.
I never said you condoned violence and I was making a point that violence has been successful in situations where there is a large mass of people who have been disenfranchised and/or abused in some form. The example of England revolting was meant to illustrate that point and of course it would not happen.
I referred to the other comments in the thread in regards to forms of protest against civil injustice etc.
I responded directly to a poster who implied violence was the ONLY successful means of protesting. Why don't you take a gander through the thread before you start making assumptions about the points people are trying to make.
Give over.
It's Covid rules which are the issue here.
It's to do with how they get to the ground etc, they have to travel in separate coaches to non playing staff, it's easier to keep then together otherwise the protocols may not be followed and the class b will be fined or worse have a potential Covid outbreak.
Stop with the hysteria!!
if they give Liverpool three points, Leicester, Chelsea and West Ham will call in the lawyers - and rightly so. It's not like 1974 when they gave City the points after a pitch invasion - it didn't affect placings and we were relegated anywayWell it's either tomorrow or Tuesday (small chances as it's only 2 days from our game vs Roma) or Liverpool getting 3-0 win automatically imo, don't think they'd agree to playing 3 games in 6 days because of our fans entering Old Trafford today
Blackpool fans were also a disgrace for invading pitch vs thaat Olsen or w/e the name is of that cnut.
Oyston.
Its the game when Herrera got 2 yellows for 2 fouls for persistent fouling. It still makes all the sense
This sucks; perfect opportunity to kill off a bleeding, depressed Liverpool.
Glad the locals made a protest. Wish it hadn't stopped the game but maybe in the long run it might pay off. Who knows!
Who brought up Hong Kong or Myanmar? You.
Your lack of understanding about our club is astounding.
My thoughts exactly
Bet a few choice words were said after Sky Sports went off air - them filling for time meant the conversation was starting to get derailed and tempers frayed. You could see the distain that Carragher, Neville and Keane had for Dave Jones' decision to keep reverting back to the actions of a minority of fans.
Yea thats the prick, thank you.