“I was sat here before you were born!”
Michael Carney’s homemade placard aimed at Manchester United’s hierarchy during Sunday’s derby was blunt, impactful and certainly eye-catching.
“74 years of loyal support – for what?” was written on the other side.
Carney, 81, held his sign towards the Old Trafford directors’ box midway through the second-half of Sunday’s 0-0 draw with Manchester City.
At the end of the match, hundreds of United supporters made their feelings known about next season’s ticket price rises, the cutting of concessions and the amount of money paid to service United’s £1bn debt, with a wider ‘sit-in’ protest arranged by the 1958 fan group.
For Carney and those who sit around him in the lower section of the Sir Bobby…