The air was thick with mutiny and malevolence as militant Manchester United fans marched on Old Trafford.
More than two thousand protesters, many lighting flares and carrying banners calling on the Glazers to sell up and get out of United, vented their anger towards the club's reviled owners. The latest anti-Glazer protest, organised by a fan group called 'The 1958', began at the Tollgate, a pub a mile away from Old Trafford, with fans marching to the ground an hour before kick-off.
Some 15 minutes later, the sizable crowd, marshalled along their route by a phalanx of riot police, made their way down the Munich Tunnel, which leads to the directors' entrance. As they marched, chanting “Joel Glazer's gonna die”, metal security shutters came down on the doors to the directors' entrance and other stadium entry routes, for fear of fans storming their way in, as they did almost a year ago, forcing the postponement of the game against Liverpool.
