Amorim always knew Man Utd was a huge mess… but Ratcliffe’s ‘football committee’ could be the biggest of the lot
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Sponsored by. CARDS maxed to the limit, a fortune spent on stuff that seemed a bright idea but will just lie around cluttering up the place. Unwanted tat you’re stuck with as no one else wants it either. Wondering whatever possessed you to think it was good value in the first place.
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The story of the festive season for households across the nation. The story of the past ten seasons for Manchester United. One which means even though they seem to have found a suitable successor to Sir Alex Ferguson at last, he is having to do the job with both hands tied behind his back.
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So much for all those boasts of how cock-ups were a thing of the past now Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s much-vaunted football committee was running the show. Seriously, Sir Jim? That already looks a bigger joke than anything which tumbled out of a cracker. This is a regime which arrived 12 months ago with chest-beating promises that United would be title contenders in three years.
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But right now is more likely to be remembered for their role in one of the most unforgivable chapters in the history of England’s biggest club. Reckon that is overplaying the seriousness of the situation at Old Trafford? Well, scratch beneath the surface a little and see what you think.
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FOOTBALL FREE BETS AND SIGN UP DEALS. The biggest and most obvious clanger of all was fudging Erik ten Hag’s future last summer. And then managing to trump themselves by compounding it even further. First co-owner Sir Jim, right-hand man Dave Brailsford and the rest of the brains trust decided Erik wasn’t so bad after all — having spent months wildly thrashing around in vain for a better option.
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