MANCHESTER United supporters expressed fury with the club’s owners at the Manchester derby, where a pre-match protest was followed by players emerging under a banner reading “The way you treat us is a disgrace.”

The Premier League club’s heavy-handed summer crackdown on ticket touting resulted in widespread condemnation from fans and supporters after many innocent people faced the threat of sanction.

United confirmed on Friday that they had removed 685 season tickets as part of the contentious process and claimed that they have disrupted organised ticketing networks, but fans remain angry.

The Red Army supporters’ group confirmed on the eve of Sunday’s derby that there will be no flag display against Manchester City in the wake of the club’s investigation into ticket touting.

Earlier in the week The 1958 fan group called a protest about the “season ticket ban fiasco,” urging fans to “stand united” as a “line has been crossed.”

Anti-Glazer songs and similarly forceful chants about co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe filled the air along with green and gold flares outside the Bishops Blaize pub near Old Trafford.

Among the banners held up was one reading: “You take it all from fans and banning us for nothing. Premium prices all for greed.”

The word “premium” used the style of Amazon’s logo while the words “all and nothing” were highlighted, a nod to the documentary series currently being filmed at United.

The protest continued into the Munich tunnel at Old Trafford, where “We want Glazers out” was bellowed outside the directors’ entrance.

Ratcliffe and Avram Glazer sat in the directors’ box for the controversial 1-0 loss to Manchester City.

When the players emerged, a banner had been unfurled reading “The way you treat us is a disgrace.”

The club last month said that an independent company had “uncovered significant and organised touting,” having reviewed account activity on the club’s ticketing platform between March and June.

United acknowledged that their ticketing touting investigation had “caused significant concern and distress for some supporters.”

The Red Devils also conceded that they had “underestimated how common sharing account usernames and passwords was” and recognised “that some fans may have felt they were being treated unfairly.”

Ten-man City went on to win the derby due to a controversial goal scored by Erling Haaland, which referee Michael Oliver initially ruled as offside.

But VAR Matt Donohue overturned the ref’s offside decision, determining Haaland to be onside.

Later, however, Pro Ref later admitted the VAR made an “error of judgement” in failing to send referee Michael Oliver to the monitor to review whether United’s Enzo Fernandez was interfering with play, as he appeared to be, with United defender Lisandro Martinez and goalkeeper Senne Lammens impacted by his attempt to play the ball.

Pro Ref on Sunday acknowledged the “error of judgment,” with a spokesperson saying that “contact has been made with Manchester United this evening to acknowledge what we deem is an error of judgement. A review of the incident will take place.”