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[david y @0161yark]

@CantonaManc Someone needs to be fired here.

[david y @0161yark]

@MrToad_88 Cannot wait!

[MikethePies @MikethePies]

5 years ago tonight Fontaines Dc played a memorable gig in Mike the Pies.

#FontainesD.C. #FontainesDC #MikethePies

@fontainesdublin

[MikethePies @MikethePies]

7 years ago tonight a band called The Fontaines made their Mike the Pies debut supporting The Hot Sprockets to 25 lucky people.
The rest as they say is history.
#fontaines #Fontainesdc #FontainesD.C. #mikethepies
#idratherbeinmikethepies #Listowel

[david y @0161yark]

Hi @WorldFamousHot1 the lad serving this morning at Sale this morning was so nice to my son! He loves his purchase ✌️

[Gl⛺️stobation 💦 @glastobation]

Glastonbury 2017: Jamie XX and Romy play out Loud Places before Jamie rolls in to Belfast by Orbital. Spine tingling.

All of the above will be performing at Glastonbury 2024

#Glastonbury #Glasto

[Neil Meehan @NeilMeehan_]

There's a new @UWSmag available from today. Includes United fan @MickyyGall on his ace new single, leaving the factory do do music full time, approaches to songwriting, and why the future for #MUFC is 'exciting '. Order info⬇️

[The Swedish Rumble 🔰 @SwedishRumble]

While everyone have talked about how Ineos must focus on getting MUFC’s “insane wage bill” under control — after almost all clubs have filed their 22/23 accounts — the Utd wage bill appears to have fallen down to 4th overall in the PL (including Sancho, Greenwood, Donny and co not even at the club):
Man City £422.9m
Liverpool £373m
Chelsea £340m* (not confirmed)
Man Utd £331m

This is not surprising, since all MUFC’s rivals have spent — significantly more — on their squads since ETH came in, except Liverpool who overall is slightly behind.

According to UEFA, United has not only spent less than most rivals, the wage bill — for the player squad — was reduced with no less than a staggering 88m record between 21/22 to 22/23:

As per Swiss Ramble, our wages to turnover is all of a sudden tied 2nd LOWEST in the league with 51%:
But wait — I thought Utd had spent a lot under ETH? It shouldn’t come as a surprise. Since the last season before ETH — the club has disposed of Pogba, Ronaldo, DDG, Cavani, Fred, Bailly, Matic, Pereira, Telles, Garner, Juan Mata, Lindgard, Elanga and Henderson (14 players) — and only signed 8 players of which Rasmus, Onana, Evans and Malacia are on very low wages.

Anyone that can count to ten must realize that this means that we have cut an extreme amount of costs since ETH came in.

Sky and co loved to spread out-of-context numbers making it look like we spent a lot — because that gets clicks. They have — nothing — to do with reality though. Undisputable facts are that we spent less than 4 of 5 of our rivals after dumping huge parts of our squad, not to mention being forced to loan out Donny, Sancho and Greenwood.

So how expensive squad has ETH used this season? If we only look at the cost of the players in the actual match day squads — I would bet that the cost of the squad ETH has had at his disposal this season ranks outside the top 7-8 in the PL. But it’s quite the task to calculate this, I haven’t done the numbers. But I mean, it speaks for itself. We have a fairly cheap squad to start with from a top 4 perspective and half of it has been injured or loaned out all season.

[The Football Tavern @TavernFootball]

Today is Andrei Kanchelskis' birthday, who penned the best piece of English literature ever.

Move over Bill Shakespeare.

The 1st time I came across Alex Ferguson, he said to me 'All right Andrei, how's it going?'

I smiled at him and replied 'Fuck off Scottish Bastard.'

[david y @0161yark]

@CantonaManc Oh boy 🤦‍♂️

[90s Football @90sfootball]

Retweet if you remember playing on pitches like this in the 90s...

[david y @0161yark]

What’s the rug thing from United’s marketing department?

[The XTRMNTR @TheXTRMNTR]

@elonmusk I’m sure we can come to some arrangement with the logo. Drop me a DM #Twitter #TwitterX #X

[david y @0161yark]

#TwitterX

[david y @0161yark]

Check out the logo from my old music blog 😂#twitter #x

[🇾🇪 @ManUtdHeritage]

The United squad and staff arrive in New York for their US tour (1952) #MUFC

[AFC Ajax @AFCAjax]

Update Edwin van der Sar on behalf of his wife Annemarie (July 15): 

Edwin has been repatriated from Croatia on Friday evening and is currently in the intensive care unit of a Dutch hospital. His situation remains the same: stable, in a non-life-threatening condition and communicative. The Van der Sar family would like to express their deep gratitude to the ���University Hospital of Split’ for their great care during the last week. 

Edwin has to remain in the intensive care unit where he will be investigated further, and the family fervently hope he can focus on his recovery afterwards.

[david y @0161yark]

@Danny_McMoomins I’m thinking someone got the hump for not being invited to the day do!

[david y @0161yark]

@badly_drawn_boy @glastonbury Have a good one! Enjoy ✌️

[MUST Chair @MUSTChair]

For those of you who have never been to Old Trafford, or Manchester, and either don't intend to ever go or don't think you ever will, whatever the reason, let me humbly explain the following: