New Date for Manchester United vs. Liverpool Remains Uncertain
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A day after Liverpool’s northwest derby match against Manchester United was postponed due to United fans protesting the club’s ownership, we still don’t know for certain when or even if the match will take place.
The one certainty now is that the game won’t be played this week despite early talk of the match simply being pushed to Monday evening. If that ever was a realistic possibility, the timeframe for making that call has now passed.
The result is an overcrowded fixture list for United that makes it difficult to see where the game can reasonably be fit due to that club’s European commitments and the looming end of an already compressed season.
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The storming of Old Trafford crystalized 16 years of disconnect between Manchester United fans and its distant ownership.
While choosing not to engage with the supporters who are the lifeblood of any club, the Glazer family can’t have avoided seeing the levels of rage against them on Sunday. Not when it led to the unprecedented postponement of an English Premier League game due to fan unrest, especially one of the biggest matches of the season between United and Liverpool.
Three months after celebrating success in the Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Glazers’ ill-fated bid to lead United into a European Super League made their relationship with fans in England more toxic than ever before.
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After Sunday’s protests in Manchester, Liverpool season ticket holder and author, Jeff Goulding, explains why he stands in solidarity with United supporters – because the future of our game is far more important than tribalism.
During fierce protests against the Manchester United ownership at Old Trafford, Gary Neville delivered a lecture to Liverpool supporters about the need to get angry, protest and get rid of their club’s owners. It was stirring stuff, but he may have done better to have a look at the history books.
Liverpool supporters have now racked up decades of experience in organising and fighting the State, sections of the media and for better governance of football.
Man United violence the peak of toxic fan-owner relationship
Fans hold up banners as they protest against the Glazer family, owners of Manchester United, before their Premier League match against Liverpool at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, Sunday, May 2, 2021. (Barrington Coombs/PA via AP) Barrington Coombs
Fans hold up banners as they protest against the Glazer family, owners of Manchester United, before their Premier League match against Liverpool at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, Sunday, May 2, 2021. (Barrington Coombs/PA via AP) Barrington Coombs
Published: 5/3/2021 6:03:18 PM
MANCHESTER, England The storming of Old Trafford crystalized 16 years of disconnect between Manchester United fans and its distant ownership.
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