Glazers must address two errors they've made in Manchester United ownership

When a fan protest has its own dedicated Wikipedia page, you know it had the desired effect. Of course, the real intention of Manchester United supporters who chose to protest outside Old Trafford and the team's Lowry Hotel on May 2nd 2021, was to get the club's clash with Liverpool called off — and they achieved that, too.

Looking back, ask any fan involved with those protests more than a year ago and, with the benefit of hindsight, they'll dismiss the impact of the European Super League — quickly suggested and scrapped in even speedier style — as the prompt for the unrest. The real smoking gun was the way the Glazers were (and still are) running United, even if the Super League played its part in igniting the fury.

It's not often I write articles from my own personal perspective, but as a United fan and a Manchester Evening News journalist, I admit to having mixed emotions that day when the Liverpool game was postponed following the protests. A few fans and police were hurt that day and, personally, I never like to see matches called off.

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But the purpose of that protest and the general anti-Glazer stance taken by the majority of United fans is something I can get behind. The bigger picture was obvious.

Cynics cite United's under-performance in the Premier League since 2013 as the main reason for the fan opposition to the Glazers. They claim it's just about results and not winning. But that is to widely miss the point and ignore the dividends the American siblings continue to take from United, to ignore the debt they with which they riddle this grand old club.

Sure, they've spent money. The post Sir Alex Ferguson spend is now into the billions.