Man Utd fan group announce plans for another huge protest on Glazers’ 20-year anniversary

Man Utd fan group The 1958 announce plans for another huge protest on the Glazers’ 20-year anniversary later this month.

It has been set for the final home game of the 2024/25 Premier League season against Aston Villa on May 25th 2025.

The demonstration marks the 20th anniversary of the Glazers’ controversial £790 million leveraged takeover in May 2005, which saddled the club with significant debt.

The 1958’s statement highlights the “financial exploitation and mismanagement” under the Glazers, pointing to over £1 billion in debt, a neglected Old Trafford stadium, and fan exploitation through rising ticket prices.

The group vows to march “as one fanbase” to demand the Glazers’ exit, stating, “They were never welcome. They are not welcome now. They will never be welcome.”

This follows previous protests, including a joint action with FC United of Manchester and a sit-in during the Manchester derby.

@The__1958 – Our full statement released to the press…

🗣️ 20 Years of Glazer Ownership: A Legacy of Ruin

May 2005 marked one of the darkest days in the history of Manchester United Football Club. The Glazer family became majority shareholders, triggering a compulsory takeover that was completed on 29th June 2005.

That moment signalled the beginning of the end for the soul and community of our once-great club — sacrificed at the altar of corporate greed.

Sir Alex Ferguson, a staunch supporter of the Glazers then and now, masked the damage with unprecedented success on the pitch. Since his retirement, the rot beneath has been laid bare for all to see — the true cost of 20 years of financial exploitation and mismanagement.

👉 The club is drowning in over a billion pounds of debt (down to Glazer greed and betrayal)
👉 Our fanbase is fractured and divided (down to Glazer greed and betrayal)
👉 Our stadium neglected (down to Glazer greed and betrayal)

Hundreds of millions have been siphoned off to service that debt — not by the Glazers, but by our club.

All while the Glazers continue to pocket dividends, year after year, regardless of failure on the pitch.

Old Trafford, once the Theatre of Dreams, is crumbling from decades of neglect.

They have taken everything. They have stolen it all

Now, even Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s arrival has come at the cost of hundreds of jobs, further punishing a fanbase already suffering under the Glazers’ reign. Lifelong, loyal supporters are being driven away from the club they love — priced out and pushed aside. Another dagger in the heart of our footballing community, club moral in the gutter. It’s never been worse.

Make no mistake — this is the legacy of the Glazer family: greed, decay, and betrayal.

Our final home game of the season is against Aston Villa.

We stand together as a generation have done before us.
To make it clear: 20 years on, the fire still 🔥burns🔥 Red — with fury and defiance.

We are at that crossroads again, 20 years ago media, government, ruling bodies and a lot of fans stood by and watched it happen. History is repeating itself, we are sleepwalking into the abyss again with the ownership, fans being trampled on and a stadium being pushed through for all reasons other than football and community heritage.

The game is being stolen from under our feet, the heart and soul being ripped out of every club, look around, look at other clubs now waking up to what United fans have known all along.

We will do our part to stop this, will you do the same?

We want the Glazers out of our club.
They were never welcome.
They are not welcome now.
They will never be welcome.

We stand together shoulder to shoulder in defiance once again at the Villa game.

More details to follow…

The 1958 🇾🇪

Here’s how Twitter users reacted as Man Utd fan group announce plans for another huge protest on the Glazers’ 20-year anniversary…

@pledgemufc: Get the Villa game cancelled or at least delayed ,the glazers really won’t care about a march to the ground, when there sat in Florida

@KeithDrake118: Why are there big breaks in between protests, should week after week

@UtdVault: Need a protest from all 4 corners of Old Trafford

@tomgoodall68: Thank you for being our voice. Supporting United would’ve felt far more fractious and alone, had we reached this awful milestone without the 1958. A true representative of the fans, putting in the hours, spending their own money, through the ridicule, they’ve stood for us 🇾🇪👏🏻

@UAGMVMT: Sir Matt Busbys birthday couldn’t be more poignant

@Deep__Red__: I’d agree with every sentiment expressed and have said so regularly, however currently I feel that marking a dead rubber, season end game only conveys a message to the owners that protests will always be limited, be an afterthought & lack real consequences.

@JonSwind93: Blame the manager, his coaches & team all you like. It’s been the same for over a decade – manager’s have been & gone. Players to ‘save the club’ come and go. One thing that is constant in all this – THE GLAZER FAMILY. Two decades of financial mismanagement. #GlazersOut

@iczster: Deep down you all know if you have turned a blind eye for self preservation, perks from the club or simply don’t care enough. I implore any United fan who loves our club to not want to do something about this before it really is too late.

@MoodyStu_MUFC: Instead of a sit in or a march, how about a silence! No songs in the stadium, in our meaningless last game! Let them hear what it would be like without fans. An anti glazer song every 15 minutes maybe, then silence.

@sk8erhardy: I agree with the cause and the sentiment. But don’t do the same as last time, don’t all sit in old Trafford and cheer the team just because for once they’re doing okay in the league. If you’re going to protest, do it proper. Pitch invasion before kick off, or empty stadium after.

@davidtings83: We were at a crossroads when Glazers put the club up for sale. Fans could have protested against anyone proposing to keep Glazers and the debt, but we chose to back the English Glazer. We lost. It’s heartbreaking what’s happened to our club. But hey, we wanted the ‘local lad’

@kurtjohn1998: Protests are all well and good. But they are sporadic. We need to be consistent. It’s needs to be at every home game. We need more than protests. We need to be outside the club store. We need to be UNITED. NOT DIVIDED. All Fan Groups and Fan YouTube channels need to be involved

@mrkhannon: I’ll never dispute what or question what Sir Alex done for us!! But the fact that he fell out with major shareholders in the club at the time over a fuckin horse and his best interests never sat well with me, if he hadn’t done so they may never have sold to the vermin Glazer’s

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