Next on the list of shit protest ideas: get everyone who buys a United Pie to eat only 58% of it then leave the rest under your seat. FFS, lads, Woodward might not be ideal, but even he could organise a better protest than this. I’m glad these organisers aren’t majority shareholders of our club.
For any organised fan group there’s been the perfect opportunity to arrange a genuinely impactful protest that will get the club’s attention where it matters, but instead we’ve got a tokenistic tantrum to a 0-2 home loss: on 27th February we play Club Brugge in the Europa League, a game which will have been in the calendar for two months, and which no ticket holder is obliged to pay for. There’s been ample opportunity for people to arrange a real movement through leafleting outside the ground, fanzines, fan channels, local and national media, in order to encourage people to sting the club with a record low ticket sale and attendance, whilst ensuring that no fans are out of pocket. If you wanted to really send a message on a match day, that’s how you could do it, with planning and a bit of foresight, to get fans to boycott a match where they have the power to not buy a ticket.
Instead at 10 days’ notice, we’re trying to get people to leave 2/3rds of the way through an important league match, which season-ticket holders are indebted for, and which will no doubt be the day that Munich is remembered.