Fans planning Old Trafford walkout

[GiddyUp]

I fecking really hope this happens. This is the supporters feedback email at London hq:
feedback@manutd.co.uk
So if the match going supporters really walk out the rest of us need to email as many times as we can for the duration of the 90 minutes. In the contact page they've a number of contacts. Supporters should do their part and feck up Ed's week. Still don't know why our offices are in London.

 

[Foxbatt]

Stretford End needs to walk out or else it is of no importance.

 

[laughtersassassin]

Stretford End needs to walk out or else it is of no importance.

Not true really but obviously the more the better

 

[Sandikan]

The minute is symbolic, I guess a lot of people won’t fancy making the effort of getting there paying their money then having 10 minutes of football.

Exactly this.
All very lovely and that, for people who live 20mins away, but it's a bit of an ask to expect people traveling 400miles round trip or more, to leave with 30mins to go!

Unless it's a hang about in the foyer for 5mins, then come back in job?

Surely a much better plan to all arrive say 5-10mins late. Then you still get your empty stadium, which looks dreadful, but not at everyone's expense of missing a huge swathe of the game including the result.

 

[joedirt87]

Yeah, 68 is more poignant but the later in the game it gets the more it just looks like people leaving early to catch the tram or beat traffic...that many people leaving at the same time would take 10-15 minutes to start to make the ground look empty and then we’d be around the 85 minute mark which would look poor.

No doubt the club will pre-plan some sort of tannoy announcement saying ‘due to health and safety please stay in your seats’ or some shite.

Not going in until 20 minutes works, it has more impact but like @TheReligion said, it can’t be done v’s Wolves due to the mintute silence.

this was kind of my point about doing it so early in the game. if it is another shit performance and are losing, people starting a 5-10 minute walkout around the 70th minute just looks like the fans have had enough of another bad game and going home. you make more of statement to have a bunch of people leaving early in a match. But i understand that it's harder to justify spending money in that regard.

 

[Heinzesight]

this was kind of my point about doing it so early in the game. if it is another shit performance and are losing, people starting a 5-10 minute walkout around the 70th minute just looks like the fans have had enough of another bad game and going home. you make more of statement to have a bunch of people leaving early in a match. But i understand that it's harder to justify spending money in that regard.

Yeah, agreed. But I still think an empty stadium at kick off has a bigger impact then fans can go in on 20 minutes and support the team.

 

[Sky1981]

You're gonna look like a mug if we trail by 3-0, you walked out at 58, and we won 4-3 without youse.

Imagine the headline

 

[Jericholyte2]

You're gonna look like a mug if we trail by 3-0, you walked out at 58, and we won 4-3 without youse.

Imagine the headline

The point of protests like this is that the issues with the club are bigger than a single result.

 

[van Nistelrooy]

this was kind of my point about doing it so early in the game. if it is another shit performance and are losing, people starting a 5-10 minute walkout around the 70th minute just looks like the fans have had enough of another bad game and going home. you make more of statement to have a bunch of people leaving early in a match. But i understand that it's harder to justify spending money in that regard.

Turning up 5-10 minutes late will just allow them to blame it on traffic congestion around Manchester. It has to be a walkout during the match.

 

[Sky1981]

The point of protests like this is that the issues with the club are bigger than a single result.

It's definitely not bigger than 58 minutes

If you want a boycott . buy the ticket, don't come. Simple as that. Going out at 58th, 15th, 20th, what's the point? a boycott is a boycott.

 

[Sky1981]

We’ve paid hundreds of millions out of the club to pay the Glazers’ “dividends”. We’ve spent over a billion pounds since 2005 in payments against debt - principal, interest and dividends too. We’ve paid dividends even in years when we’ve reported losses (and not spent).
In all that time (15 years, no less) net debt” has reduced from 660 Mn to 511 Mn. Sorry, but that one billion (add inflation to that now) would finance multiple rounds of duds and still leave fecktons left for spending again. And the annual dividends could finance wages for multiple Alexis Sanchez level (on wages) players.
So please don’t live with the illusion that Ed is the only issue. The Glazers have sucked the life out of the club and continue to do so.

You're reading a fan fiction finance.

 

[Mr Pigeon]

I fecking really hope this happens. This is the supporters feedback email at London hq:
feedback@manutd.co.uk
So if the match going supporters really walk out the rest of us need to email as many times as we can for the duration of the 90 minutes. In the contact page they've a number of contacts. Supporters should do their part and feck up Ed's week. Still don't know why our offices are in London.

Unfortunately the upper management probably won't even hear about the emails and if they do it'll be six months from now as a secondary point in a meeting.

Now, a plane flying over the stadium with a banner attached to it. That'll get their attention...

 

[VP89]

You're gonna look like a mug if we trail by 3-0, you walked out at 58, and we won 4-3 without youse.

Imagine the headline

Not really. They are planning to protest regardless of the match outcome.

 

[U-N-I-T-E-D]

I like what Blackpool did - waiting till a certain minute and throwing tennis balls onto the pitch. That got a lot of attention, would work well with a televised game.

 

[Godfather]

You're gonna look like a mug if we trail by 3-0, you walked out at 58, and we won 4-3 without youse.

Imagine the headline

What has the result against Wolves or the game as a whole to do with the protest?

 

[Wumminator]

This is a difficult one and in a sense I agree but when you consider that once people shed blood and lives for this club, then some comparison between what was and what is should be made. I wonder what Sir Bobby feels when he sees what his beloved club has become today?
Whatever the wrongs and rights this club is being destroyed from within and it’s a crying shame.

Hang about. A few years ago when Bobby didn’t want Mourinho his name was mud on here as he was supposedly holding the club back.

 

[Token Sheet]

@Heinzesight had the best idea. Just don't go to your seat for the first 20 minutes. You could even watch the game in the concourse. This would give maximum impact, given the ground would be empty at kick off, but also allow the fans to return to their seats and get behind the team until the end.

That said with the minutes silence planned do it the following home game instead.

Go to your seats at 18 minutes and then leave at 78 minutes......

 

[Sandikan]

Turning up 5-10 minutes late will just allow them to blame it on traffic congestion around Manchester. It has to be a walkout during the match.

That's the Man City excuse. And it's funny how those games never get any more packed later.

 

[Sandikan]

Hang about. A few years ago when Bobby didn’t want Mourinho his name was mud on here as he was supposedly holding the club back.

It'd be interesting to know the real truth wouldn't it.

Fergie supposedly picked Moyes specifically.
Then it was that he was about 5th in the list.
Then it was Fergie totally distancing himself from Moyes at all.
Similar with Charlton and Mourinho. What actually was his opinion.

Guess we'll never know on most things.

Like I don't believe Fergie actually left because he knew this team was going to collapse. I don't buy that.
But I totally believe he covered for the Glazers in that "No value" period.

 

[clarkydaz]

It'd be interesting to know the real truth wouldn't it.

Fergie supposedly picked Moyes specifically.
Then it was that he was about 5th in the list.
Then it was Fergie totally distancing himself from Moyes at all.
Similar with Charlton and Mourinho. What actually was his opinion.

Guess we'll never know on most things.

Like I don't believe Fergie actually left because he knew this team was going to collapse. I don't buy that.
But I totally believe he covered for the Glazers in that "No value" period.

think Sir Bobby had the stand named after him right around the time Mourinho became manager. (to keep him sweet)

 

[Sandikan]

Hopefully my pal who is taking the Wolves tickets from me, doesn't hear of this plan.

Otherwise he might not fancy driving for 3hours each way just to be hassled to leave on 58mins!!

 

[Red00012]

It would actually be a nice life lesson if you explained why people are doing it. If I know anything about my kids it's that their is something else to keep them happy or treat them to. But you are right, I wouldn't knock anyone for not walking out when they have a few kiddos in tow. Do fecking not buy merchandise from the store though. Get your souvenirs from the vendors around the ground.

Stopped doing that a while back.
I use DH gate a lot

 

[ISMAIL-007]

The point of protests like this is that the issues with the club are bigger than a single result.

Absolutely. And where'll those four goals come from?

 

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[RedMilo]

I get the anger, but to walkout on 58th minute, on a game so close to the anniversary of the biggest tragedy in our history, doesn't sit well with me at all. Its should a moment of respect, not protest. Leave early but not 58 - Don't do it!!! our club is already having some very serious drubbing in the media, don't give them easy shots..

 

[devil in me]

Go in 5/10 minutes late instead. Seen it in Holland a couple of years back (cant remember the club).
Hardly anyone in the ground at kick off, it made a point and only the first part of the game when not a lot happens (especially with us!) was missed. Looked awesome, too.

 

[dwd]

Go in 5/10 minutes late instead. Seen it in Holland a couple of years back (cant remember the club).
Hardly anyone in the ground at kick off, it made a point and only the first part of the game when not a lot happens (especially with us!) was missed. Looked awesome, too.

What was it for? Did it achieve anything?

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

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The Mirror was one of the outlets who reported about this

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/man-utd-fans-plan-mass-21354395

David McDonnell wrote the article as well......

 

[Utdstar01]

Leave after 60 minutes. A statement needs to be made. Can't put up with this shit any longer

 

[Beans]

That doesn’t sit right with me then.

Careful not to stand up then...

 

[midnightmare]

You're reading a fan fiction finance.

If that’s what you call the annual report, sure. You literally just have to download it from the club’s website and read it.
Should you do so, you’ll also find the very helpful line that the club doesn’t follow SEC guidelines on corporate governance since it’s a “foreign” entity for the US market. This is why there’s no Board with independent directors for scrutiny and why we paid 23 Mn pounds as dividends in 2018 despite reporting a net loss for the year.
That last bit is just absolutely shameless. The one thing it isn’t is “fiction” - fan or otherwise.

 

[Eckers99]

You're gonna look like a mug if we trail by 3-0, you walked out at 58, and we won 4-3 without youse.

Imagine the headline

This is about more than just 1 game.

 

[Chip Butty]

That figure, that time and its significance, for me, is a sacrosanct symbol to Manchester United fans and should not be sullied in reference to the leaches that sit within your club. Fan power can and will prevail, but never at the expense of what you hold dearest the most.

 

[Antisocial]

Definitely don’t do it at 58 minutes - 68 minutes would be much better, but basically anything would be better than 58.

 

[El Zoido]

Should just not turn up. Keep the stadium empty, and not just for one game.

 

[Sky1981]

If that’s what you call the annual report, sure. You literally just have to download it from the club’s website and read it.
Should you do so, you’ll also find the very helpful line that the club doesn’t follow SEC guidelines on corporate governance since it’s a “foreign” entity for the US market. This is why there’s no Board with independent directors for scrutiny and why we paid 23 Mn pounds as dividends in 2018 despite reporting a net loss for the year.
That last bit is just absolutely shameless. The one thing it isn’t is “fiction” - fan or otherwise.

1 billion is debt repayment?

Hundreds of millions in dividents. 20m divident for a 4bn asset is outrageous?

Original debt 700m. Outstanding debt 400m. 1 billion in debt repayment. Where's the 700m goes?

 

[Strelok]

I don't even want to watch anymore after Rashford got injured. It pains me to see the current likes in an United shirt tbh. Just lost my appetite.

 

[Gary_Walsh_Nou_Camp_Hell]

This will draw criticism from many and may be ineffectual but I am all for it on the basis of purely trying something

Real motivated fans stopped giving the club money the moment Glazer bought the club. That is the only meaningful resistance. Buying tickets then walking out won't bother the Glazers.

 

[ravi2]

It'd be interesting to know the real truth wouldn't it.

Fergie supposedly picked Moyes specifically.
Then it was that he was about 5th in the list.
Then it was Fergie totally distancing himself from Moyes at all.
Similar with Charlton and Mourinho. What actually was his opinion.

Guess we'll never know on most things.

Like I don't believe Fergie actually left because he knew this team was going to collapse. I don't buy that.
But I totally believe he covered for the Glazers in that "No value" period.

I agree with this 100%, SAF broke transfer records to get Rio, Rooney Veron etc and as soon as the Glazers came on board those types of transfers stopped.

 

[ravi2]

I get the anger, but to walkout on 58th minute, on a game so close to the anniversary of the biggest tragedy in our history, doesn't sit well with me at all. Its should a moment of respect, not protest. Leave early but not 58 - Don't do it!!! our club is already having some very serious drubbing in the media, don't give them easy shots..

What a myopic post, the fans that are protesting truly care about the long term future of the club.
You are focused on one game when there is a bigger picture, too bad you dont see it.