Manchester United fans are planning a protest for their forthcoming match against Liverpool, but will enough of their fellow fans join in?
One game seems to have been all it took for familiar fault lines to reveal themselves yet again.
On the opening weekend of the season, Manchester United’s performance at home against Brighton & Hove Albion seemed to indicate that the arrival of yet another manager, Erik ten Hag, hasn’t made a huge deal of difference to the feeling of stultified inertia that has hung over Old Trafford for the last decade.
The Brighton game invoked unflattering comparisons with their opponents, who were playing lower division football in a dilapidated athletics track not much more than a decade ago.
With each new managerial sticking plaster that is applied to the slowly deflating balloon that United so frequently resemble these days, the feeling continues to grow among the club’s supporters that they can change manager as many times as they like, but nothing will truly change until the Glazer family have left the club.
Manchester United are due to be playing Liverpool at Old Trafford on August 22. This fixture has become something of a lightning rod for the mood of United supporters recently. Two seasons ago it had to be postponed after protests against the proposed European Super League led to supporters getting inside the stadium before the match when games were still being played behind closed doors.
Last campaign, external shots of home supporters leaving Old Trafford long before the end of a humiliating 5-0 defeat told their own story about the sense of continued decline.
This time around, the plan appears to be pretty simple. #EmptyOldTrafford. With this particular hashtag already trending on Twitter – as of first thing on August 9 it had been tweeted more than 90,000 times, already more than the capacity of Old Trafford – the aim of this protest is for United fans to persuade fellow supporters that the pain of missing this one game could be worthwhile if live images of banks of empty seats for such a high-profile match are flashed around the world before and during.
Of course, there will be those who dismiss such protests as entitled because they start after the first league match of the season, but the idea that they are simply about having just lost 2-1 at home to Brighton is facile in the extreme.
There have been protests against The Glazers since before they took ownership of the club. They were a tipping point…
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