🔴 Manchester United fans’ protests against the club’s owners descended into chaos after Old Trafford was stormed.
🚔 Bottles and barriers were thrown at officers with one requiring treatment for “significant slash wound” to the face telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/…
⚽️Thousands of fans gathered around the stadium to voice their disapproval of the Glazer family's ownership and their attempt to join the closed-shop league.
The protest began at 2pm and thousands of protesters arrived at the ground.
🧨There were plenty of anti-Glazer banners and flares in red, green and yellow were let off
🔴3pm: The protest moves to the pitch
Fans are currently unable to attend games due to the pandemic but they found a way into the stadium.
🏟️More than 100 fans got inside the stadium and some could be seen from windows waving down to protesters
🧨Supporters wore green-and-gold scarves and also set off flares in the colours of the club's 1878 formation.
⛳️Corner flags were held aloft and one supporter was seen throwing a tripod from the interview zone
🔴 3:30pm: Teams are announced but there is still no indication the match will be played
🚓Mounted police cleared the area and the stadium was announced as 'secure'.
Both teams remained in their team hotel and it became clear that the game would not kick off on time
🔴5:35pm: The match is off
❌Manchester United confirmed the game was off
🚓United said that, while they accepted the right of their fans to protest peacefully, they regretted "the disruption to the team and actions which put other fans, staff and the police in danger"
🔴Greater Manchester Police have now launched an investigation into the protests
🍽️ ✈️ While many of us are enjoying the chance to socialise and travel normally, some are clinging fearfully to the safety behaviours from during the pandemic.
➡️ What was once a rational response to danger has become a “maladaptive” response as the danger recedes
🇬🇧 More than twenty years after the idea was conceived and double the estimated price, HMS Queen Elizabeth has set sail on her maiden voyage as part of the UK Carrier Strike Group Deployment, the biggest deployment of UK naval firepower since the Falklands War
Weighing 65,000 tonnes, travelling more than 26,000 nautical miles and visiting a total of 40 countries over seven months, HMS Queen Elizabeth will sail through:
⚓ The Mediterranean Sea
⚓ Arabian Sea
⚓ South China Seas
⚓ Indian Ocean
⚓ Pacific Ocean
📚 On the morning of 9 March, 2019, Hilary Mantel finished writing The Mirror & the Light, the third volume of the Wolf Hall trilogy she had spent 15 years on
🏴 "I wanted to leave the reader feeling that it was a tragedy, but not a disaster. Cromwell changed England, and he probably did everything that he set out to do. So although he must have gone to his execution in great distress, I don’t think it would be with regret"