Non story, move along please...

Oh and another thing, if i want to give to charity i will. I don't want to be bullied, either by people loitering at the exits of supermarkets, or by propaganda style tv adverts.
Thankyou

Nothing less than I'd expect from this 'club'. Disgusting...

Doesnt mention anything about bullying charitiies does it??? There are far too many of these things about and yes - we all feel pressured into giving. Collecting in pubs, shops and at events should be bannned. If we want to give we can do - but when we want to!
I got a call the other night from Great Ormond hospital asking for a £15 monthly donation. When I pointed out that was really steep - he tried to barter with me to see how much I would give. I ended up putting the phone down on him cos he wouldnt give up and kept trying to pressure me. I applaud United in their stance and hope that many others follow suit. As for phone callers trying to get my money?? dont bother, most would never ever donate in this way anyway!

I agree curious yellow. I'm sick of having someone rattling a tin in my face every time I visit the supermarket and the way they virtually block entrances and exits is tantamount to bullying. People are sufefring from "charity fatigue" because you can't walk anywhere now without being harrassed for money that many people don't give anything anymore.

It's the same with Pakistan. People have given what they can and the Brits have always been generous. But now, instead of saying thank you, the Head of OXFAM blasts us for not giving enough which had probably done that charity all the harm it can do. People just don't have the spare cash they used to. I think Man Utd are doing the right thing. It will stop the scam, bogus collectors too.

Funny I thought 'nited were a charity case

The charities should be ashamed of themselves, the Glaziers' must come first

The reason the club want these other charity collectors banned is because the Glazers' themselves will be outside on Warwick Road shaking ntheir buckets begging for donations to stop the club going bust!

Green & Gold until you fold

good move rags,i mean if people are giving to other charities,there your begging bowl brigade is gona suffer,(sarky remark by the way ), what a disgusting little outfit you really are,can you get any lower ?.



the real mark jones

I suggest they go to Eastlands where the real money is being thrown about?

it's legalised begging anyhow. If I want to set up a direct debit for a charity then i have a choice and can do so in my own time. box rattling really gets on my wick!

Another public relations disaster for a organisation running out of credit. A mean spirited refusal to assist charitable causes is one more example of a club about to enter the doss house itself. Symptomatic of a desperate need to conserve the supporters money while fleecing it for themselves. The musical Oliver, neatly illustrates the point with the song, You've Got To Pick a Pocket or Two.
In this life, one thing counts
In the bank, large amounts
I'm afraid these don't grow on trees,
You've got to pick-a-pocket or two.

'Giving Fatigue' ??? This reads to me like they're just concerned that money is going towards charitable causes when it could be spent in the ground and in the souvenir shop. Do they really expect us to believe that groups of people going to the match are being intimidated and 'bullied' by a few charitable old fellers with collection boxes? Do me a favour. I supposed next they'll be trying to tell us the collectors have turned feral and are hunting in packs.

I am from the other side as far as football goes but i applaud them lot for this decision, you only have to walk throughout Manchester City centre to see the dozens of over the top chuggers to realise that charity fatigue is fact not fiction.

Spot on!, can we do something about the menace of chuggers as well.

Direct Debit is the way forward I'm afraid, the real bullying is from the people is your face.

What's the story here? One charity wants it's pitch to itself? What's news about that? It seems to me that MEN just want to give the silly City fans an opportunity to make fools of themselves with their charmless attacks on their bigger rivals. There's no story here.

At least SAF is doing his bit for the homeless.

Difficult one this, As a City fan I think I have to agree. There are far too many so called charities trying to get us to donate. We have had some around Eastlands but not many, they are mostly the genuine charities. I don't and will never support charities for any animal, humans only, and if possible humans from the Greater Manchester area. I already have direct debits set up for The Lifeboats, The British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research (as a result of family connections) so I very very rarely put money in any boxes whether around the stadium or in the city centre, I feel I am already doing my bit.

Totally agree with Uniteds stance, i wish they'd do something about the city centre, you cant walk down Market Street without various clans of clipboard brigades trying to stop you every few feet.

Yeah Mr stranger please have my direct debit details........... Honestly!

Yes I am sick of the emotional blackmail, it's time they stopped pushing their luck.

Is it a veiled attempt to curtail the actjvities of M.U.S.T on matchdays ?.

A good move. Working in the city centre, I'm sick of being assaulted by "Big Issue" sellers every fifty yards; not being able to sit outside a pub (eg Sinclairs) without being harassed by panhandlers; and being blagged - particularly on Market Street and St Anne's Square by children's' or homeless persons' charities. Outside the supermarkets, at the weekends, there are charities soliciting my money; inside at the tills there are people packing my bag for charity. On the tv - especially during the day - there are heart-rending adverts designed to get a couple of quid a month out of me. In the office, it's no different: leaving aside the obligatory £2 for a birthday; £5 for a wedding. a baby, or a leaving/retirement; there's an endless stream of e-mails from people who are walking/running/cycling/washing their hair for charity, and want me to sponsor them.

I support five or six charities, by monthly subscription from my bank account: I chose those charities myself, and they cover people, animals and the environment. I give to medical/aid charities at Xmas, because I don't send cards. In the event of international disaster, I chuck a few quid into the box. I buy a poppy, and ensure that I make a decent contribution for that cause.

Almost everywhere I go, I'm told how other sections of society and the world are much more disadvantaged than am I: I'm invited to inspect their misery, and to assuage my guilt at not being myself ill/starving/abused/at risk/disabled/homeless by handing out my money. "You've got a job; you're healthy; you must pay for those who are not," is the gist of the almost constant message which the charities send out into the world - with a subtext that if you can remain unmoved by their stories of suffering, then you must be a flint-hearted miser. Nonetheless, it seems that there has now come a point at which the cries, the pleadings, and the aggressive "in your face" tactics are beginning to disenchant the already financially beleaguered guy in the street - and the charities react by turning around and accusing the public of not giving enough (cf OXFAM) - and it's our fault again, is the implication, that the world is not a bright shiny eternally happy place.

The charities were not helped when the Iceland banks collapse gave us an idea of how much money they had "salted away", rather than using it to do the work for which it was donated. Other charities do themselves no favours by contesting wills - and refusing to compromise when offers to share the estate are made, forcing costly and painful Court actions upon legitimate claimants. (They even, for heaven's sake, employ teams to scour the wills which are lodged for Probate to ensure that they don't miss any legacies which might come their way!)


So if the charities are beginning to face a back-lash, then arguably they have only themselves to blame. As with a noise which persists, sooner or later you become inured to - and eventually unaware of - its presence: maybe that's what's happening here. Just like the rest of us, the charities are suffering from the economic downturn - and like the rest of us, they'll have to accept that what they want will not be what they get.

Its probably so United can start putting out begging bowls to raise funds to buy a couple of new players, City would never stoop so slow as to ban charity collections at our ground.

I've been attending City matches for 50 years, during which time collections for charity have increased, I frequently make a donation BUT I have never been "bullied". The norm is for a collector to simply stand holding a bucket or collecting tin. I have never had a tin rattled in my face and never has a collector ma no problem.de eye contact with me and asked me personally for a donation.

As a City fan, it's nice to see the MUEN writing bilious nonsense about United for a change. The disparity between your alarming headline and the content of the article is astonishing. They're not bullying charities: they're keeping their approved charities on board and quite rightly stopping others getting in on the act.

People so often see a bucket and throw some coinage into it without even checking if it's a legitimate charity. The charities U*ited do allow on the premises have been vetted beforehand.