Laurie Whitwell

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6,272 appearances 32 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show · What does derby defeat say about Man United? · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

And there's I think there's two hundred odd more that then they kind of said, well, you weren't doing it for financial financial gains, so we'll kinda let you off. matched

And so th I think that's the group of people that I feel for the most because you've got seven hundred or so people there that have had to basically matched

prove their innocence. matched

And I get that they're trying to do a clamp down on tickets out and I think I c I can understand the reasons for that. matched

But then when you've got these people that are just innocent in the situation feeling like they're not wanted, that that causes friction. matched

That that is that is a really desperate situation, really emotionally um difficult situation to be in. matched

What were the protesters saying that you spoke to? matched

Well so I didn't speak to any, I just sort of went out and just observed matched

It and just sort of felt that okay, I get a sense of I've spoken to enough people at different moments to understand what the grievances are. matched

Mm-hmm. matched

I mean, the banner itself that they were holding up said, you take it all from us and banning us for nothing. matched

That obviously suggests uh an issue with the fact of them basically doing a blanket um kind of approach to some of these issues that are coming up. matched

Um and I'm fine, so so you might just say, Okay, well. matched

this needed to be dealt with in a way the tickets out in. matched

But by the same token then it feeds into this idea of not being wanted. matched

So you've had ticket price rises where they came in without consultation midway through a season, sixty six pound tickets, and you've got Sir Jim Ratcliffe on record talking about needing to be more expensive than Fulham with Andy's interview in United We stand. matched

Then you've also got the uh the the message that went out earlier I think last week was it the auto matched

Cup scheme, which has been around forever, you know, this well, twenty years or so, where if you don't, you know, you have to opt in basically, and if you do opt in and and you know your details don't go through, then you know basically you you lose the option to have a you're obliged to pay for the ticket. matched

Basically, yeah. matched

But the wording of it was just so clumsily done. matched

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