Thousands of Manchester United fans staged a protest against the club's ownership on Saturday, chanting outside the ground, waving banners and letting off flares.
Many of the protesters were planning to stay outside Old Trafford until 17 minutes into the Premier League game against Norwich, a minute for each year of the Glazer family ownership.
The 1958 Group had called for fans to gather in nearby Stretford before marching to Old Trafford.
Under the Glazers, United have won five Premier League titles, an FA Cup, four League Cups, the Champions League and the Europa League. But since former manager Sir Ferguson retired in 2013, success has been limited, and the club in debt.
Interim manager Ralf Rangnick declined to offer an opinion on the Glazer family, but backed fans’ right to protest.
“There is no point in speaking or talking about that right now, that’s not the issue,” he said on Friday. “The issue is how can we win the game? It’s not my job to speak about our ownership.
“I had a long conversation before I came over here at the beginning of December with the owner. Right now it doesn’t makes sense to speak about that.”
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was sacked in November with United seventh in the table, the same position they find themselves in ahead of the weekend fixtures, but Rangnick insisted he had seen signs of improvement and had no regrets on taking on a job more difficult than might have been anticipated.
“No regrets whatsoever,” he said. “I would do it over and over again."
