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TORONTO -- Toronto FC is about to find out to find out whether it has won over its beleaguered season ticket-holders. On Tuesday the MLS club reached out to its ticket base, months later than normal, hoping that its off-season moves have given ticket-holders a reason to get back on board a franchise with a 51-105-66 career mark. "A new, winning tradition begins this season for Toronto FC and the most important thing to us is that you are there to share it with us," general manager Tim Bezbatchenko said in an email to the clubs 14,600 season ticket-holders. "We hope that you believe in our direction based on the moves that have been made and are still to come and that you will be there with us again this season." Fans have until Jan. 31 to renew their tickets. Toronto opens the 2014 season March 15 in Seattle. MLSE president Tim Leiweke pushed back the renewal date when he cleaned out the clubs front office Sept. 5 as another failed season lurched to a close. January marks the opening of the international transfer window, allowing Toronto to reload. "By then we will either have done what we have to do and they will hold us accountable and say I like what you did, Im in. Or if we fail here, were going to have a mass exodus," Leiweke said in September. "And we get it. Were OK with that, all of us. "We will put our feet to the fire here ... We better do a good job because I dont think a marketing campaign is going to cut it this time." Leiweke and his staff are about to find out how well they have done. "Every move weve made this off-season has been made with our promise to you in mind, Bezbatchenko said in Tuesdays email. In a bid to lure ticket-holders back, Toronto is maintaining the same prices as last year and offering two complimentary lower bowl tickets to a 2014 Toronto Raptors game for signing up by the early renewal deadline of Jan. 17. The club has made moves to improve. Toronto has already signed Brazilian striker Gilberto, with England star Jermain Defoe expected to join him soon. The signing of former league MVP Dwayne De Rosario, who played in Toronto from 2009 to 2011, is expected later this week. Those recruits are expected to bolster an attack that produced just 30 goals last season, second-worst in the league. Since the end of the 2013 season, Toronto has also acquired MLS experience in the form of Brazilian midfielder Jackson and defender Justin Morrow while picking up draft picks in trading away the rights of goalkeeper Stefan Frei and midfielder Bobby Convey. While Toronto finished out of the playoff for a seventh straight year with a 6-17-11 record in 2013, there were encouraging signs under first-year manager Ryan Nelsen. The team showed a strong spine with Joe Bendik excelling in goal, Scottish defender Steven Caldwell providing stability at centre back and captain, and young Argentine Matias Laba strengthening the midfield. 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Charlton fans held a mock funeral prior to kick-off and then threw beach balls onto the pitch during the match, temporarily suspending the teams clash with Middlesbrough to show their displeasure with the clubs ownership.Over the years, supporters of numerous clubs across Europe have used protests to try to get their views heard, with the manner of those demonstrations as varied as the issues driving them… Walkout on 77Perhaps the most discussed demonstration this season, and which also looks to have made the biggest impact, came in February as approximately 10,000 Liverpool fans walked out after 77 minutes of their home game with Sunderland in protest against the clubs proposed ticket prices for the 2016/17 campaign - the highest of which was £77. Liverpool fans walk out after 77 minutes against Sunderland Enough is enough was the chant from the crowd as the stadium emptied with the scale of the protest shocking Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group (FSG) into action. Within four days FSG had apologised to the supporters and announced that their previous ticket pricing structure had been scrapped with ticket prices frozen for the next two seasons.Other Premier League clubs have followed suit, some even cutting ticket prices, and earlier in March, the Premier League announced the price of away tickets at all grounds will be capped at £30 for the next three seasons.Green and goldAnother well-publicised protest in the north west came at Manchester United with their fans campaigning against owners, the Glazer family. David Beckham wears a green and gold scarf after Champions League tie at Old Trafford During the 2009/10 season, Manchester United fans opted for a colourful way to show their discontent, taking on the green and gold colours of Newton Heath; the name the club was originally founded under.The campaign received further backing after David Beckham, on loan at AC Milan at the time, draped a green and gold scarf around his neck as he left the pitch after a Champions League tie at Old Trafford.Blackpool sit-inBlackpool took a more direct approach at the end of the 2014/15 campaign as they protested against owner Karl Oyston. Blackpool fans hold sit-down protest After a series of demonstrations in the preceding weeks, things reached a head on the final day of the season as hundreds of fans invaded the pitch early in the second half and staged a sit in.Oyston out banners were held aloft, flares were set off and after stewards were unable to remove the supporters from the pitch, the game was abandoned.Unexpected pitch invaderOne of the more bizarre protests came at Ewood Park in the form of a chicken as Blackburn fans railed against the clubs owners, the VVenkys.dddddddddddd A Chicken is put on the pitch by Blackburn fans in protest of the Venkeys ownership of the club Supporters, disillusioned by the clubs financial problems and impending relegation from the Premier League in 2012, released a live chicken onto the pitch during a match against Wigan with Latics goalkeeper Ali Al-Habsi having to usher it from the field.With Venkys still in charge, the protest was repeated ahead of a derby match with Burnley in 2014.Lazio fans cause a stinkOf course, it is not just in England that such protests occur and in Italy, Lazios ultras are never shy in making their feelings known. Charlton fans stage mock funeral Addicks supporters stage mock funeral before Championship clash with Middlebrough In December 2015 they found a novel way to express they displeasure after seeing their side go two months without a win in Serie A in the form of manure, with 10 bags of it delivered to the clubs training ground.New balls, please!Finally, to Germany and Borussia Dortmund. The German model has been the subject of much praise in recent years with affordable prices seen as key to the fantastic atmosphere at stadiums throughout the Bundesliga. Both sets of players clear tennis balls from the pitch at the Mercedes-Benz Arena However, in February, Dortmund fans boycotted the first 20 minutes of their sides German Cup victory at Stuttgart and then threw a volley of tennis balls onto the pitch in protest against high ticket prices for the match - with a quarter of the away tickets costing 70 euros (£55). Football Supporters Federation Chairman Malcolm Clarke discusses protests at Arsenal, Liverpool and Charlton. Also See: Charlton call on fans Klopp praises ticket U-turn ' ' '