Manchester United documentary ’99 is an excellent nostalgia hit to distract from the club’s current woes

Teddy Sheringham and Paul Scholes celebrate Man Utd’s Premier League victory in 1999. (Reuters) There was a time when television executives of historical dramas rushed to use the writings of Jane Austen, not the musings of Phil Neville. Although that was the 1990s, a decade that spawned a growth industry in Manchester United nostalgia. That, … Read more

Inside Manchester United’s axis of power and how Erik ten Hag’s fate will be sealed

Jean-Claude Blanc, now interim CEO of Man Utd, in conversation with Dave Brailsford and Sir Jim Ratcliffe – Getty Images/Jean Catuffe It’s fair to say that Sir Jim Ratcliffe isn’t afraid to speak his mind. A number of Ineos executives involved with his Ligue 1 club Nice had a WhatsApp group and at times Ratcliffe … Read more

Interview with Samuel Iling-Junior: There is no bad blood at Chelsea – I just had to move on

Samuel Iling-Junior describes his decision to leave Chelsea and join Juventus in 2020, when he was just 16, and during Covid, as “black and white”. It’s a neat – if unintentional – way to discuss playing for the Old Lady of Italian football, given the colors of their famous stripes. But it was a far … Read more

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