From my best mate who works at United as a manager in hospitality:
This season especially, it's been a shitshow. People actively talking about when the Glazers will make Ratcliffe sell and they take over again. The kicked an award winning manager out of the Directors restaurant and replaced him with someone who has never successfully ran any restaurant... ever. Sir Alex bollocked him mid shift and called him a 'fucking imbecile'. They then offered people to apply for the role, despite the person ousted still not having a permanent restaurant to run. He has gone to HR to ask if it is because of his ethnicity.
The player's chef and Dan Ashworth had to be dragged apart shortly before the latter was put on leave. The chef has now gone to Maclaren, too. His replacements are told to either make their own way (at their own expense) to away games, and they only get paid for working hours when there. One of the chefs refused and asked for club transport with the players. He was made to sit in the footwell of the coach as no available seats. The fucking footwell.
There has been at least 3 chicken-gate incidents and the executive chef thinks putting allergens into a dish doesn't need highlighting on the menu. Says its a 'front of house' problem.
They have employed absolute fucking jokes of people in key positions (this is even pre ineos, so it's not down to them for once) and it's a genuine matter of time before either we poison half the first team (remember spurs in 06...) or we actually risk killing a customer.
Fuck me guys, the mice and the waterfall are the least of the concerns.
David Gill was interviewed by Rio... he admitted the roof was leaking 25 years ago. The difference was, we were winning so no one cared.
Greenwood still has an impact on the squad. Sancho went off when he was told Mason was coming back and was having his place. The directors sat in a meeting with the head of Adidas ready to put out the statement about all employees being asked about Greenwood. He found out from a female member of staff that there wasn't any consultation. We nearly lost the sponsorship over that one.
I'm barely scratching the surface here, that's before getting into De Gea and the contract farce. The Ashworth saga. The summer signings and who was actually behind them. Then there was Kath... poor Kath. A proper legend. How long do you think it took the club to ask for her season tickets back after she passed...?
Couple bought hospitality start of season. One of the recent Europa games. Wife had baby, came early. 3 weeks old by date of game. They asked for a refund. Told no. Said they would have to bring baby. Told thay would be £200 extra.
Then they were put in an area where only pre match hospitality. So they had no respite area. The club eventually moved them. To the South stand. Where there are ZERO baby change facilities. Absolutely nothing. It was such a shitshow, the club are now giving them a comp return. So it's cost the club more because they refused to defer tickets.
I love my club. I've been fucking proud to be a part of it for the last 15 years. I won't be doing hospitality for much longer. What the fuck is happening here... this is not the club I know any more.
Honestly, all piss taking and rivalry aside... Once you peek behind the curtain in any club you see things you don't want to see. But it's never been quite like this before
