TRA FC retweeted
Good news for the “Empty Old Trafford” brigade.
Plenty of tickets available for Brentford on 28th November.
Rather than sitting on Twitter lecturing actual matchgoers about why we shouldn’t attend, you can all club together, buy a ticket each and leave your seats empty.
Over to you. 👍
TRA FC retweeted
There’s a constant narrative that matchgoers need to "do more." But look at the sheer numbers: the club boasts a global fanbase of anywhere between 600 million and 1.1 billion people.
Even taking the conservative 600m figure, the roughly 37,000 core matchgoers in the ground represent just 0.006% of our total support.
Asking 0.006% of the fanbase to carry the entire weight of a protest movement makes no sense. The reality is that the global fanbase holds far more leverage than the few through the turnstiles; your collective voice and digital reach can amplify our message louder than anything we can do alone. If we bring the Green & Gold back inside the ground, we need you to back us from outside, not turn against us. We fight this together or not at all.
Whether you personally back the Green & Gold movement or not, it remains the most visible, realistic protest we have. It doesn’t risk anyone's season ticket or livelihood like a walkout does, making it something far more matchgoers can actually get behind inside the ground.
Tell everyone to take Green & Gold balloons to every game, wear Green & Gold scarves - think how that looks in the stadium - remember AC Milan?
I'll repeat what I said in my last post: imagine what a difference we make as a collective.
- Hit the vanity metrics: Unfollow the club's official accounts on X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. The club pitches these raw follower numbers to prospective commercial partners every day.
- Direct consumer feedback to commercial partners: Brands invest heavily for positive sentiment. When supporters collectively make it clear across sponsor channels that partnering with negligent ownership carries a reputational cost, commercial teams take notice.
- Starve the Megastore: Stop buying official kits, training apparel, and club subscriptions. If you want United gear, buy retro or support independent fan-made apparel.
- Back fan-led advocacy: Support independent fan media, fanzines, and the Supporters Trust. Collective, legal, and political pressure moves the needle; reckless armchair advice does not.
Do you see what you alone can achieve, work with us, not against us.
I hear plenty of noise online about what matchgoers “ought” to do to force change, most notably demands that we leave Old Trafford empty or throw missiles onto the pitch to stop games.
If you don’t attend games regularly, it’s easy to look at things from a distance and assume it’s simply a matter of willpower. Here is the reality on the ground:
1. The “Boycott / Empty Seats” Myth
- The money is already banked: Around 46,000 seats belong to Season Ticket holders who pay in advance in May and June—before the previous season has even finished. Whether an ST holder sits in that seat or stays home, the Glazers already have the cash.
- Season ticket holders don’t control the stadium: If, on average, 20% of Season Ticket Holders forward or resell through official channels, you’re left with roughly half the stadium’s capacity. The remaining half of the capacity is filled by hospitality and general members paying premium prices, people who aren’t walking out or boycotting.
- Strict attendance enforcement: Season Ticket holders must physically attend or officially transfer at least 16 out of 19 Premier League home matches. If you fail to hit that threshold, the club revokes your ticket for the following season.
- You don’t create an empty stadium—you create a corporate one: With over 100,000 people on the waiting list and massive international tourism demand, any seat permanently vacated isn’t left empty. The club simply reclaims it and flips it into extortionate single-match membership prices or hospitality packages.
- The European comparison doesn’t work: Pointing to Serie A or the Bundesliga ignores the fundamental economics. Many of those clubs have cheap tickets, standing sections, and 50+1 fan ownership models. Old Trafford operates in a hyper-commercialised, sold-out market. Asking a local supporter to sacrifice a seat their family has held for 20, 30, or 40 years, only for it to be sold to a tourist five minutes later, gives the owners zero financial leverage.
2. Throwing Objects onto the Pitch
- It’s a specific criminal offence: Under the Football (Offences) Act 1991, throwing any missile onto the pitch or surrounding area is illegal.
- It ruins lives, not ownership: Old Trafford is blanketed by modern high-definition CCTV and facial recognition. Anyone caught doesn’t just face a club ban; they face mandatory court-issued Football Banning Orders (FBOs), the surrender of their passport during European fixtures, a criminal record, and potential loss of employment. Furthermore, with modern automated flagging and blanket ticketing investigations, which have been very poor on United’s part, when disorder breaks out, bystanders and innocent people nearby often get swept up in the fallout, losing access to tickets while lengthy club appeals grind on.
- Demanding that local matchgoers take on criminal records and jeopardise their livelihoods while you watch in a pub, on TV, or via an illegal stream isn’t a protest strategy; it’s completely detached from reality.
What Non-Matchgoers Can ACTUALLY Do to Hit the Model: The club’s ownership model is built on one thing: commercial monetisation of the global audience. That is where you have direct leverage.
- Hit the vanity metrics: Unfollow the club's official accounts on X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. The club pitches these raw follower numbers to prospective commercial partners every day.
- Direct consumer feedback to commercial partners: Brands invest heavily for positive sentiment. When supporters collectively make it clear across sponsor channels that partnering with negligent ownership carries a reputational cost, commercial teams take notice.
- Starve the Megastore: Stop buying official kits, training apparel, and club subscriptions. If you want United gear, buy retro or support independent fan-made apparel.
- Back fan-led advocacy: Support independent fan media, fanzines, and the Supporters Trust. Collective, legal, and political pressure moves the needle; reckless armchair advice does not.
If we want change, it requires collective discipline across the entire fanbase—not asking matchgoers to commit financial or legal suicide just to make a 30-second point on television.
There’s no divide here: it isn’t matchgoers versus non-matchgoers; it’s all of us. If we aren’t united, we achieve nothing, and that failure rests on every single Manchester United supporter.
A better-formatted version of this post is here: cheesesofnazareth.substack.c…
TRA FC retweeted
I hear plenty of noise online about what matchgoers “ought” to do to force change, most notably demands that we leave Old Trafford empty or throw missiles onto the pitch to stop games.
If you don’t attend games regularly, it’s easy to look at things from a distance and assume it’s simply a matter of willpower. Here is the reality on the ground:
1. The “Boycott / Empty Seats” Myth
- The money is already banked: Around 46,000 seats belong to Season Ticket holders who pay in advance in May and June—before the previous season has even finished. Whether an ST holder sits in that seat or stays home, the Glazers already have the cash.
- Season ticket holders don’t control the stadium: If, on average, 20% of Season Ticket Holders forward or resell through official channels, you’re left with roughly half the stadium’s capacity. The remaining half of the capacity is filled by hospitality and general members paying premium prices, people who aren’t walking out or boycotting.
- Strict attendance enforcement: Season Ticket holders must physically attend or officially transfer at least 16 out of 19 Premier League home matches. If you fail to hit that threshold, the club revokes your ticket for the following season.
- You don’t create an empty stadium—you create a corporate one: With over 100,000 people on the waiting list and massive international tourism demand, any seat permanently vacated isn’t left empty. The club simply reclaims it and flips it into extortionate single-match membership prices or hospitality packages.
- The European comparison doesn’t work: Pointing to Serie A or the Bundesliga ignores the fundamental economics. Many of those clubs have cheap tickets, standing sections, and 50+1 fan ownership models. Old Trafford operates in a hyper-commercialised, sold-out market. Asking a local supporter to sacrifice a seat their family has held for 20, 30, or 40 years, only for it to be sold to a tourist five minutes later, gives the owners zero financial leverage.
2. Throwing Objects onto the Pitch
- It’s a specific criminal offence: Under the Football (Offences) Act 1991, throwing any missile onto the pitch or surrounding area is illegal.
- It ruins lives, not ownership: Old Trafford is blanketed by modern high-definition CCTV and facial recognition. Anyone caught doesn’t just face a club ban; they face mandatory court-issued Football Banning Orders (FBOs), the surrender of their passport during European fixtures, a criminal record, and potential loss of employment. Furthermore, with modern automated flagging and blanket ticketing investigations, which have been very poor on United’s part, when disorder breaks out, bystanders and innocent people nearby often get swept up in the fallout, losing access to tickets while lengthy club appeals grind on.
- Demanding that local matchgoers take on criminal records and jeopardise their livelihoods while you watch in a pub, on TV, or via an illegal stream isn’t a protest strategy; it’s completely detached from reality.
What Non-Matchgoers Can ACTUALLY Do to Hit the Model: The club’s ownership model is built on one thing: commercial monetisation of the global audience. That is where you have direct leverage.
- Hit the vanity metrics: Unfollow the club's official accounts on X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. The club pitches these raw follower numbers to prospective commercial partners every day.
- Direct consumer feedback to commercial partners: Brands invest heavily for positive sentiment. When supporters collectively make it clear across sponsor channels that partnering with negligent ownership carries a reputational cost, commercial teams take notice.
- Starve the Megastore: Stop buying official kits, training apparel, and club subscriptions. If you want United gear, buy retro or support independent fan-made apparel.
- Back fan-led advocacy: Support independent fan media, fanzines, and the Supporters Trust. Collective, legal, and political pressure moves the needle; reckless armchair advice does not.
If we want change, it requires collective discipline across the entire fanbase—not asking matchgoers to commit financial or legal suicide just to make a 30-second point on television.
There’s no divide here: it isn’t matchgoers versus non-matchgoers; it’s all of us. If we aren’t united, we achieve nothing, and that failure rests on every single Manchester United supporter.
A better-formatted version of this post is here: cheesesofnazareth.substack.c…
TRA FC retweeted
Before the club took it off us and then use our flags as for a social post - fuck off
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Has Glazer ownership held Manchester United back? 🏟️ Kaveh Solhekol gives his thoughts. 🗣️
TRA FC retweeted
The Kop ❌
Stretford end ❌
Forget them. If Man City play their cards right, that Pep stand could become the best stand in the premier league….
TRA FC retweeted
Seen a few snide digs aimed at @TraMufc about some of the chants on Sunday.
Without the TRA, Old Trafford would literally be like a fucking library man.
Ohh and they got the Stretford end looking class. 🇾🇪
TRA FC retweeted
Polite reminder not to take any flags home with you on sunday.
If you want to help at HT/FT please take them to the back of the stand.
thanks
@TraMufc @TRA_FC_ @MU_ST @ManUtd @AndyMitten
Reclaim The Stretford End – Update
🇾🇪TRA have now designed & funded over 350 flags as part of the RTSE campaign and prior to the Leeds game we announced that 180 of these would be introduced into Stretford End Tier 2.
🇾🇪The Club also contacted everyone in both T1 & T2 who had a ticket for the game on our behalf, explaining that our resources are stretched to the limit and we can't do this without the help of fellow Stretford Enders, resulting in approximately 25 responses.
🇾🇪Before kick-off approximately only 60 of the 180 flags were used and at full-time over 40 were taken out of the stadium, a handful of which were recovered by stewards at the exits or Reds outside the ground. We're happy to admit some responsibility for this as we could have been clearer that the flags were not gifts to be taken home but are paid for by the fans and should therefore remain in The Stretford End for use at every game. Lesson learned.
🇾🇪Taking all of this into account, we’ve decided to remove all remaining flags from T2 and concentrate our efforts on T1 for the remainder of the season. Until we have a team of volunteers in place in both tiers that’s capable of managing such a large number of flags.
🇾🇪For the Brentford game therefore, we’ll have all flags (over 350) in T1, including the remaining waver flags and the new 18m flag that were originally intended for T2.
🇾🇪We’re working hard to ensure that T2 will again be fully involved in time for the start of the new season but this will only be possible with the help of a suitable number of volunteers up there so please keep an eye out for future communications regarding this. If you’d like to help out in T1 for Brentford and can get to Old Trafford the day before the game, you can send your details (name, membership) to info@mufctra.co.uk and we’ll be in touch nearer the game.
🇾🇪Cheers🇾🇪
TRA FC retweeted
Reclaim The Stretford End – Update
🇾🇪TRA have now designed & funded over 350 flags as part of the RTSE campaign and prior to the Leeds game we announced that 180 of these would be introduced into Stretford End Tier 2.
🇾🇪The Club also contacted everyone in both T1 & T2 who had a ticket for the game on our behalf, explaining that our resources are stretched to the limit and we can't do this without the help of fellow Stretford Enders, resulting in approximately 25 responses.
🇾🇪Before kick-off approximately only 60 of the 180 flags were used and at full-time over 40 were taken out of the stadium, a handful of which were recovered by stewards at the exits or Reds outside the ground. We're happy to admit some responsibility for this as we could have been clearer that the flags were not gifts to be taken home but are paid for by the fans and should therefore remain in The Stretford End for use at every game. Lesson learned.
🇾🇪Taking all of this into account, we’ve decided to remove all remaining flags from T2 and concentrate our efforts on T1 for the remainder of the season. Until we have a team of volunteers in place in both tiers that’s capable of managing such a large number of flags.
🇾🇪For the Brentford game therefore, we’ll have all flags (over 350) in T1, including the remaining waver flags and the new 18m flag that were originally intended for T2.
🇾🇪We’re working hard to ensure that T2 will again be fully involved in time for the start of the new season but this will only be possible with the help of a suitable number of volunteers up there so please keep an eye out for future communications regarding this. If you’d like to help out in T1 for Brentford and can get to Old Trafford the day before the game, you can send your details (name, membership) to info@mufctra.co.uk and we’ll be in touch nearer the game.
🇾🇪Cheers🇾🇪
TRA FC retweeted
As someone on Spirit of Shankly pointed out, this is just the original concept for the Premier League being delivered. The vision was to move football up a couple of social classes, which to me means price out the less wealthy and encourage a "better" class of clientele with more disposable income.
They focused only on the vast riches the PL would bring and they were right. However that model only works long term with regeneration of new fans. It works if you are never gonna get relegated because the group of die hards whose loyalty and love for the club could not be quantified on a balance sheet, have already left and they are now doing something else with their match days.
Most of them likely realise that it's quite useful getting the time back and similar to when you break up with an ex, there is rarely any going back.
Without the diehards, who indoctrinated the next generation into being obsessed with the team, where does the next generation of fans come from?
Good luck convincing a young person to spend what little they have left after paying their rent and other increasing costs, to allocate a big chunk of what's left for an overpriced season ticket. Not happening, football is not high on the importance scale when you can watch every game on telly.
As for the "better" clientele they attracted, they will abandon ship as quickly as they arrived come any form of hard times.
What the clubs are doing right now with ticket price rises is simply ensuring that they have no loyal die hard fanbase left in 10-15 years. These changes will be forever.
No more capacity crowds for just playing in the PL, owners will be forced to try and actually win stuff. If they don't, goodbye fans. If they do, those fans will demand they do it again.
I'm from an era that did not place expectation on clubs, we just handed over our money and went to football, because that is the way it was. I'm still clinging on but with next year being my 50th watching West Ham and having been banned this season for breaching health and safety, I'm pretty sure it will be my last one.
Unless the owners who fucked my club up completely, finally get the message and fuck off back to their mansions.
The people who own clubs know the square root of fuck all about the generations of fans who helped build that club to be the thing it was before they demolished everything they inherited. They do not comprehend love or loyalty because in their world, those things are cash transactions.
Football as we knew it is on life support, but the owners won't realise until one day they look around that vast stadium and see a handful of fans watching the
latest pile of average they decided to serve up.
#BSOUT
9 wins on the bounce, expanding to 2 teams next year. Trials will be in June but we train on Tuesdays 8-9pm if you want to get ahead of the crowd get in touch 🇾🇪
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Much appreciated mate 💪 everybody is welcome to come and cheer the lads on. See what its about 🇾🇪
Cup Semi Final for @TRA_FC_ this Saturday morning!
If you’re local, get down and cheer them on, grab a munch and a beer while you’re at it
You could do worse on a Saturday morning! 🇾🇪💪🏻
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TRA FC retweeted
EDIT: link is now working
🇾🇪After a large number of requests from Reds around the ground to extend the flags into other sections, our next batch will be heading up into Stretford End T2.
🇾🇪Our intention is to make Old Trafford by far & away the largest, most unique display of fan-designed & funded flags in the country, dwarfing all other clubs in both size and originality.
🇾🇪We can't make it a reality without the help of match-going fans, if you're in T2 or T1 & want to be involved with helping on match-days then let us know👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
@muyscofficial @ManUtd @StretfordPaddck
TRA FC retweeted
Every player gave a 10/10 effort performance yesterday. That should be the benchmark for every game, I think most match goers would be happy with that regardless of what we win or where we end up in the league. Was absolutely brilliant to watch from start to finish. Some atmosphere too, highlight was watching South Standers absolutely giving it to the divs on A-stand. Sensational stuff 🇾🇪👏👊