Carragher launches passionate defence of protesting Manchester United fans

Published on: 04 May 2021

Jamie Carragher has strongly defended the Manchester United supporters who violently stormed the club's stadium, causing their match against Liverpool to postponed.

The Liverpool legend gave a passionate defence of the protesting fans in the wake of the fears that best australia casinos are luring the Manchester United fans away from the club because of the decision to back the formation of theb unpopular European Super League.

 

Most pundits on Sky Sports backed the fans' right to protest peacefully, as the majority seemed to, although ex-Liverpool captain Graeme Souness seemed to pinpoint the reason for the protest as the side not being successful on the pitch.

He said: 'I think (the anger) is out of United not being top dogs as much as what happened (with the European Super League) last week.

'It's only since Sir Alex Ferguson stopped that the success has stopped and I think that irritates supporters and they have become the focus of their anger. I think it's slightly misdirected.'

But fellow Reds icon Carragher described those criticisms as 'lazy' on Monday Night Football.

He responded: 'The supporters who really felt this more and marched on stadiums are Manchester United and Arsenal - that's because they had a huge problem with their owners before this. It's different for these two clubs, because of that.

'This talk of Manchester United fans only doing this because they are not challenging for the top honours? Lazy punditry, that's what I call it. If you're going to speak about something passionately - and you can have your opinion - back it up with facts.

'This is nothing to do with where Manchester United are in the league. Yes, there's been a decline, obviously, but this campaign has been going on for a long, long time, from when Manchester United were very, very successful.

'So let's not accuse Manchester United fans of just throwing the toys out the pram because they're not competing with [Manchester] City or in the Champions League, whatever it may be. That is absolute nonsense.'

Another place where the fans could be lured to is leroi johnny casino en ligne after angry hundreds of Red Devils supporters stormed Old Trafford, demanding the American owners, the Glazer family, sell the club and leave, partially sparked by their involvement with the doomed breakaway European Super League project.

The Premier League has still not rearranged the match but may have difficulty rescheduling it given the congested fixture pile-up towards the end of the season.

 

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