I don't agree.
Unfortunately a minority of hooligans attached themselves to what was intended as a peaceful protest (What's new there?).
I don't think you quite get the anger felt by lifelong supporters who have spent years standing on the terraces and are seeing the game taken away from it's roots by investors who know nothing and care even less about football and are only interested in how much they can make out of it.
People like the glaziers have been emboldened by Covid which has convinced them that match attending fans are nothing more than a nuisance and the big clubs can happily survive by selling airtime around the world. If that means wrecking the league, then tough. Old Trafford is falling to bits with a leaking roof and several instances of rat infestation. The Glaziers got the club with with a leveraged buyout, loading the debt onto the club, this after assuring people that they would not do that when they first made their move. They have stripped millions out of Man U in dividend payments while the club is reported to be around 500 million in debt.
I fully support the action of the fans, as do many of their former (And probably current) players, along with virtually everyone else in the game.
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