No, you're the one believing in these myths, that 200 people breaking stuff in a stadium will make our owners sell.
The protest outside, great. The invading the pitch. Yobs behaviour.
I think people are pretty much widely condemning the ‘yob behaviour’. So I don’t really get your point.
However through history we’ve only ever really seen protests enact change when there has been a minority led more aggressive arm. Suffragists vs Suffragette. MLK vs Malcolm X. That’s obviously quite a reductionist way to look at things. But yesterday if the protest had just gone on outside with no hassle and the game was played, well then who cares. Not saying the Glazers will care much now, but it’s garnering much much more coverage than it would have. Just look at how the Arsenal protests got maybe a minute of coverage and then n
Who’s to say fans don’t do it again? If there becomes a concerted effort to actually impact the ability on matches being played and therefore decrease tv revenue well then there we go.
You think that we should all stop watching the games as a means of protest. But unfortunately that is never going to happen. Most fans are fair-weather Glazer protesters. They’ll say how they dislike the ownership but still watch the matches and probably buy the shirts. How many people do you think will make a social media post about how they won’t watch the United - Liverpool game and once they put their phones down switch the tv on. Shit tons.
Physical protest is the only real means of 1, visualising the mass discontent - people not watching a match will not really have the same sensationalist coverage. 2, standing together in defiance and proving your commitment to the cause. 3, actually have any material impact on the club.
I don’t condone the bottle throwing at the police, I don’t condone making staff feel unsafe, I don’t condone breaching the players dressing rooms and breaking the Covid protocol, I don’t condone the minimal amount of masks on display. I do not give a shit that some doors were broken and some of sky’s camera tripods were chucked about. I do condone moving into the stadium. I do condone impacting the ability for the game to be played.
Yesterday was millions of fans hating the Glazers, hundreds of thousands wishing they were there, thousands turning up to protest, hundreds breaking into Old Trafford and tens really overstepping the mark and then you being a little jobsworth.