Man Utd (A) - Thursday 13th May 8.15 pm

[J-V]

Just now, Red Shift said:

What’s the injury?

Fingernail, broken.

[TheBitch]

Best match thread for ages. 

[Red Shift]

Just now, J-V said:

Fingernail, broken.

Bloody hell that must be painful. Still, they have things called injections.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Hang on does this mean Nat Phillips might be fit for the next game so Fabinho can play in midfield.

 

Great bunch of lads those manc twats.

[aws]

2 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Hang on does this mean Nat Phillips might be fit for the next game so Fabinho can play in midfield.

 

Great bunch of lads those manc twats.

Nat was in the team to play today. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Just now, aws said:

Nat was in the team to play today. 

Missed the team sheet with the glazers out protests going on.

[Red Shift]

GOAL!!!
 

Get in Mo!! Take that you Manc scum. Hat trick for the Egyptian King.

 

Then I awake and look around me
At four grey walls that surround me
And I realize, yes, I was only dreaming
For there's a guard and there's a sad, old padre
On and on, we'll walk at daybreak
Again, I'll touch the green, green grass of home

 

[waddy78]

14 minutes ago, Stephen Adams. said:

If Greta Thunberg punched Donald Trump in the face would you say "Imagine if I had done that" or would you say "Fucking right Greta?"

It depends, on wether I can punch Greta Thunberg in the face as well? 

 

But not sure what's this got to do with today's events? My ideal scenario would be Thunberg decking Donald turning around to accept her applause only for jeremy Clarkson to flattern her with a right hook.

[Chocoholic]

28 minutes ago, Red Shift said:

WTF is wrong with Hendo? Is he crocked?

Virgil's been rested the last couple of games, too, as he's got a bit of a knock

[VladimirIlyich]

11 minutes ago, waddy78 said:

It depends, on wether I can punch Greta Thunberg in the face as well? 

 

But not sure what's this got to do with today's events? My ideal scenario would be Thunberg decking Donald turning around to accept her applause only for jeremy Clarkson to flattern her with a right hook.

And then somebody else to twat Clarkson,hard.

[Stephen Adams.]

Can someone rename this thread Always The Victim please?

[Stephen Adams.]

Can someone rename this thread Always The Victim please?

[Barrington Womble]

5 minutes ago, Pete said:

So apparently two police officers were injured (one required immediate hospital treatment) and staff had to barricade the doors off their offices but it was a peaceful protest….

 

 

I think we can all agree today was just what football needed.

[Anubis]

16 minutes ago, waddy78 said:

It depends, on wether I can punch Greta Thunberg in the face as well? 

 

But not sure what's this got to do with today's events? My ideal scenario would be Thunberg decking Donald turning around to accept her applause only for jeremy Clarkson to flattern her with a right hook.

Nah, Greta’a ace. She’d twat that Tory thundercunt, Clarkson, as well.

[Stephen Adams.]

Every protest against hicks and Gillette would have happened if we'd been top of the league because that's what's important according to legend souey 

[dockers_strike]

Birt with more fawning in the torygraph. And the cunt just couldnt fail to mention Liverpool in a negative light just so you know, it's not all on the nasty Glazers.

 

It was another sad Sunday for Manchester United. Two weeks to the day that the plans for a badly thought out, badly organised and just plain bad European Super League were announced the club scored another damaging own goal.

Allowing protesting fans to not only breach security but get into the stadium and onto the pitch was shocking - and not least because United and Greater Manchester Police were forewarned as to the scale of the anti-Glazer protest. It was announced and planned for more than a week ago and even commented on by manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. So everyone should have been aware that feelings were running high and, if not, that is just a sign of yet more negligence.

United should have known what to expect; they should have been ready but, instead, the club heaped yet more embarrassment on itself with another shambolic failure. Once again it is guilty of ignorance.

Thousands of fans protested against the Glazers ownership - which is far from ideal in these Covid times but is completely understandable. It is their right especially given they have, over the past two decades, exhausted every other avenue to express their desire for a change of ownership. Good luck to them if they can finally force that and the Glazers have certainly shown how unsuitable they are to be custodians of such a great club. If the Americans have any feeling for United they should seek a buyer end their ownership.

Fans protest in their numbers outside Old Trafford Credit: GETTY IMAGES

• Supporters view: I hope the Glazers now understand why us Manchester United fans are so angry

To force the game to be postponed is unprecedented and will certainly be noticed around the world. It showed that direct action can have a dramatic effect although surely we cannot ever regard getting a game called off because of safety fears as a positive thing. It is possible to condemn both the Glazers and the way the protest developed.

What is not the right of the fans is to go onto the pitch, to clash with the police, to cause damage and to apparently try and force their way into the dressing rooms.

Whatever the Glazers have done, however understandable the anger, it does not legitimise that kind of behaviour. There is a sense of pent-up anger and frustration and the desperation to try and effect change. But that does not excuse the actions even if some apologists came out in force afterwards, brushing over aspects of the protest that went too far.

The demonstration needed to pass off without disorder or violence but sadly that did not happen while no-one will hold their breathe in hoping it makes a difference to the usually indifferent Glazers.

Yes, the fans are angry but that does not give them the right to act like they did. Where was the concern for the Old Trafford staff or the police in their actions?

In the aftermath of this debacle questions will be asked as to how they actually forced their way inside and even if there had been any collusion because it seems extremely strange that protestors were able to make their way onto the pitch and knew how to do so.

Beyond that is the simple fact that given its geography Old Trafford should be one of the easiest Premier League stadia to secure. It is not in a residential area, it does not have tight streets around it, there are large car parks and land that can easily be cordoned off to make sure protestors can be kept at a safe distance from the stadium itself. It would cause minimal disruption to do so. Security needed to be far better.

For the Premier League it is embarrassing to have such a high-profile ‘Super Sunday’ fixture postponed in this way although there will be little sympathy for United and, it should not be forgotten, their fellow founding member of the ESL’s ‘dirty dozen’, Liverpool. At least it was two of the guilty clubs who were affected and United should be punished by the Premier League for the postponement.

The shame belongs to United in what is the latest and most damaging security breached to affect the club who – at the very least – are guilty of complacency and a lack of sensitivity and foresight. But, then again, that is in keeping with their greedy, uncaring backing of the now defunct ESL. They brought this upon themselves.

[Bobby Hundreds]

7 minutes ago, Stephen Adams. said:

Every protest against hicks and Gillette would have happened if we'd been top of the league because that's what's important according to legend souey 

Hicks and Gillete where going to bankrupt us and were looking to be financed. We protested for the safety of the club. United today were protesting their owners because they think they are leeching from the club and that's fine too if its reported as such, today wasn't a protest for the integrity of the sport it was club fans wanting better owners to increase their chances of success and not be a family cash cow and that again is fine too but report it how it is, the Glazer issue wasn't born the day they released the news of the ESL and the fans of those clubs out of the 6 with the very wealthy owners ain't said shit about getting them out of the club. Everyone is acting in their own interests still.

 

That said if it turns out this makes the league or whoever think about ethical changes then it doesn't fucking matter what the thought behind the protest was only that it forced changes.

[Moo]

21 minutes ago, Stephen Adams. said:

Can someone rename this thread Always The Victim please?

Ban this cunt.

[magicrat]

51 minutes ago, TheBitch said:

Best match thread for ages. 

Brilliant and no last minute equaliser to piss on your chips. 

[Jockey]

We managed to remove the parasites without invading the pitch and without getting games postponed.

 

Sky gave Hicks a platform and pretty much treated us like parasites - and whilst this was happening United fans were laughing their tits off. They were laughing because they were winning number 19, and appearing in their 3rd Champions League final. None which they protested and none of which they got postponed. 

 

We were protesting both the fuckers when we were top of the league. They way United fans talk you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Glazers took United over a few years ago - not 17.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

23 minutes ago, Stephen Adams. said:

Can someone tell me where to get extra small condoms?

[magicrat]

29 minutes ago, Stephen Adams. said:

Can someone rename this thread Always The Victim please?

Why is this fella stigmatising us ?  Wouldn't happen on a Utd forum

[coachpotato]

2 hours ago, Elite said:

Carragher is a disgrace.

 

If it was Liverpool fans, we'd have been slaughtered by every fucker.

Fixed.

[TheHowieLama]

We can re-schedule it but they have to keep Big Stu in midfield for the replay.

[Jairzinho]

54 minutes ago, aws said:

Nat was in the team to play today. 

Only one of his legs is broken.