The Manchester United Supporters Trust have written to Joel Glazer urging him to listen to their complaints and respond following Sunday’s protest at Old Trafford.
United’s game against Liverpool was postponed as fans broke into Old Trafford and clashed with police outside the stadium.
The group said it does not condone violence but called on the Glazers to respond to the fans who are being ‘sidelined and ignored’.
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The letter read: ‘The Fans Forum wrote to you and your senior management team on Friday. We don’t know if you saw it, but after the events of yesterday we trust your attention is now fully focussed on the question of what happens next at Manchester United.
‘First things first, let’s be very clear that no-one wants what happened at Old Trafford yesterday to be a regular event. We are football fans and we want to support our team. We don’t want to spend our days off work protesting outside our football ground.
‘But what happened was the culmination of 16 years in which your family’s ownership of the club has driven us into debt and decline, and we have felt ever more sidelined and ignored.
‘After 16 years not one member of the Glazer family has ever had so much as a conversation with us, the club’s Supporters Trust. Yesterday, that frustration reached boiling point.
‘For the vast majority of the thousands of attendees at the protest they made their voice heard peacefully and respectfully. We support the right of fans to protest lawfully and, although we did not personally witness any such acts, of course we do not condone any acts of violence.
‘None of us want this to continue. We all have better things to do. So we need to find a way forward.’
The letter also laid out a four-point plan for a fundamental restructuring of the club.
As well as calling for the Glazers to co-operate with a fan-led government review, the letter urged them to put in place a share scheme that is accessible to all investors meaning the owners’ stake could be ‘reduced to a minority or indeed be bought out altogether’.
The letter also called for the owners to consult with season-ticket holders over any significant changes at the club and appoint independent directors to the board.
It concluded: ‘We request a response to this four-point plan, in public and in writing by Friday. This is the only way to move this issue on. We strongly suggest you take it.’
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