Manchester United have considerably elevated safety exterior Previous Trafford in hopes of avoiding additional disruption from fan protests because the membership prepares to play back-to-back house video games in opposition to Leicester and Liverpool this week.
The authentic Liverpool recreation was suspended after hundreds of indignant followers protesting in opposition to the Glazer household, triggered by the European Tremendous League scandal, got here down on Previous Trafford. About 200 managed to interrupt into the world and ran onto the pitch, whereas just a few hundred extra based mostly nearer to the town heart additionally briefly blocked the staff’s lodge earlier than the recreation.
Man Utd vs Liverpool suspended after protesters acquire entry to Previous Trafford pitch OLI SCARFF / Getty Photographs
United face Leicester on Tuesday evening and Liverpool simply 48 hours afterward Thursday. However with supporters nonetheless livid, extra protests are anticipated.
The membership anticipated potential disruption earlier than the authentic Liverpool recreation, however elevated safety efforts did little to stop it from occurring at the moment.
Now photos exterior Previous Trafford have revealed additional measures which have been launched.
Steel fences, apparently stronger than those who have been there earlier than the final spherical of protests, have been erected over the courtyard to strive to stop all protesters from having access to the world. The Munich tunnel is doubtless to be notably properly guarded because it beforehand proved to be the weak level, with followers forcing entry after climbing over fences there.
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United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjær, who opposed the 2005 takeover whereas a participant on the membership, has defended followers’ proper to protest and insists they will need to have a voice. However the Norwegian has additionally on a number of events referred to as for protests not to finish in violence.
The protests in opposition to the authentic Liverpool have been largely peaceable and lots of the followers who gathered exterior didn’t initially notice that some had damaged into the world. However there are issues for each police and protesters, as properly as prison injury and intrusion.
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