Speaking to United staff earlier this month, the scale of the problem was laid bare.
In the past, a feature of an Old Trafford matchday were the people dotted around Sir Matt Busby way offering to sell tickets. But numbers have dwindled.
Now trading is done on Facebook or on WhatsApp groups and in a way that makes formal identification hard or impossible.
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