robbie corner

I used to get such a buzz on match day; the butterflies, the anticipation, seeing mates, meeting new people, getting inside Old Trafford, watching the players walk out of the tunnel onto the pitch, and looking around in awe at everything. After the clubs attack on loyal supporters over the last 6 weeks, today feels very different. Don't get me wrong, I'll get behind Carrick, his team and the players. I'll support everything that is right about Manchester United, the Football Club. That will never change. But why does it feel so different? Because Manchester United, the business, no longer seems to want me, my mates, or the supporters who have given so much. It feels like they're slowly draining the life and soul out of everything that made Manchester United one of the most famous football clubs in the world. Manchester United still wants to be the known as the biggest and most famous club in the world, they just seem to want to do it without people like me & you supporting them, that helped give them that title in the first place.

I don’t ever ask for anything on this platform, but please, please take the time to read Harry’s words in the repost and then repost this, or @stephenblevins9 post, so it gets the attention it really deserves. I’ve known Harry for around 20 years, and I genuinely can’t tell you what a great lad he is. I’d like to say we’ve helped each other out equally over the years, but if I’m being honest, there’s no doubt he’s done far more for me than I have for him. I sent him a voice message this morning, asking him not to give up after he had emailed me, and telling him that we’ll find a way to support him. But, in my eyes, the club have properly done him over here. This is exactly what United want. This is exploiting loyalty to its absolute core. We’re all lined up next. It’s just a question of who’s next in the firing line; eventually, we'll all be gone. Shame on you, #MUFC.

An analysis of where Manchester United's ticketing policies might be really heading, and why the recent "Final Warning" determinations are a testing ground for a much bigger, club-wide shift. To understand where the club is taking ticketing policy for the entire match-going fanbase, look closely at the conditions being imposed on supporters currently stuck in the "Final Warning" phase following the summer restrictions. The goalposts on attendance are shifting before our eyes, and everything about this process points towards laying the groundwork for what could be mandatory minimum personal attendance rules across the board for the 2027/28 season. Here is why I think the club is engineering this direction: 1. Creating the "Attendance Trap" Under Disciplinary Cover For supporters placed on a 12-month warning, the club has introduced a specific operational trap: The club has completely removed official ticket-forwarding functionality from their accounts. If they cannot attend a match due to illness, family commitments, or travel, they are barred from forwarding their ticket to a fellow member or friend. Their only permitted options are to surrender the seat back to the club's official resale platform or donate it. Crucially, the review of their account status and away-game eligibility after 12 months is explicitly tied to personal attendance levels. This forces supporters into an impossible position. In a typical season where life inevitably gets in the way of a few fixtures, fans who have already paid hundreds of pounds upfront are penalised purely because they cannot physically scan through the turnstile themselves for every single match. 2. Testing the Infrastructure on a Captive Group The club claims this is merely an isolated disciplinary response to account management concerns. The broader reality is far more calculated. Whenever the club wants to roll out contentious, restrictive measures, from digital-only passes to automated ballot thresholds, they rarely do it across 47k (ish) season ticket holders on day one. They test the mechanics on a smaller, vulnerable cohort who have little leverage to fight back. By stripping forwarding rights from hundreds of supporters and making their ongoing status contingent on strict personal scan rates, the club is stress-testing the administrative and technical infrastructure needed to track, enforce, and police individualised attendance metrics. 3. Normalising the Death of Traditional Ticket Sharing Match-going culture has always relied on flexibility. Mates covering for mates when work shifts change, parents passing tickets to their adult children, and supporters' groups ensuring seats never sit empty have been the lifeblood of Old Trafford for decades. By framing informal sharing as a "security risk" and compelling supporters to use only official club resale or donation channels, the club is conditioning the fanbase to accept that you no longer own the right to decide who sits in your seat when you cannot make it. The club wants total control over that inventory, taking your seat back, reselling it to members at elevated match-by-match rates, and squeezing margin at every step. 4. The Path to 2027/28 Make no mistake about the trajectory. What is being imposed today as a "sanction" on individuals caught in the summer saga is being road-tested to become standard policy for everyone else tomorrow. By the time discussions begin for the 2027/28 season, I wouldn't not be surprised if the club will present mandatory personal attendance quotas and severely curtailed forwarding rights not as a radical new restriction, but as a "proven measure" already embedded in their operations. Whatever corporate assurances or spin the club offers, the direction of travel is unmistakable: chipping away at the rights of traditional season ticket holders, ending informal ticket sharing, and paving the way for strict personal attendance mandates that benefit the club's bottom line while punishing loyal fans. When INEOS took control of football operations, supporters were promised a cultural reset, sporting focus, and competent governance. Instead, match-goers have experienced a clinical regime of aggressive cost-cutting and commercial extraction. From slashing over 250 club jobs, axing staff perks, and cutting Sir Alex Ferguson’s ambassadorial contract, to steadily hiking ticket prices while promoting £5,000-a-head VIP dugout experiences, corporate priorities have consistently overridden the club's traditional ethos. This bottom-line focus directly explains the crackdown on general admission season ticket holders. Relocating long-standing fans in the South Stand for hospitality expansions and using an algorithmic crackdown to restrict or cancel accounts all point toward inventory reclamation. The arithmetic is simple: breaking up an £874 Season Ticket (£46 per game) into match-by-match member sales yields around £1,390 across the season, an effortless 59% revenue uplift per seat. By restricting ticket forwarding, targeting informal family sharing, and testing strict attendance traps under the guise of "security", INEOS is dismantling Old Trafford's organic community culture. Rather than treating loyal supporters as the custodians who sustained the club through decades of misrule, the new leadership is treating match-goers purely as an under-monetised asset to be squeezed for maximum margin.