Ben Langley

Sports journalist based in the Scottish Borders | MA Sports Journalism graduate @edinburghnapier | 📝Berwick Rangers match reporter

[England Cricket @englandcricket]

Thanks for the memories, Stokesy ❤️

An all-time LEGEND.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨💣 BREAKING: Éderson to Manchester United, here we go!

Deal done with Atalanta for €45m package with add-ons included, agreement now in place.

Medical and formal steps to follow but deal in place.

Éderson will sign a four year deal plus option, as @TheAthleticFC reports.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Maximum impact, minimum fuss.

Senne Lammens has won the #PL's Transfer of the Season award for a fantastic first campaign at United! 🥇👏

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

BRUNO FERNANDES. RECORD-BREAKER.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Outright.
Without equal.
On a level of his own.

Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes.

[The Masters @TheMasters]

Rory McIlroy wins his second Green Jacket. #themasters

[The 1958 @The__1958]

🛑 WHY PROTEST? 🛑

🚫 Increase in draconian attendance regulations

💷 Price hikes for kids and concessions

🚨 Heavy handed bans at aways because of I.D. demands and removal of season tickets for long serving matchgoers

📉 2,500 season ticket holders gone from Old Trafford in just 2 years 🤔

🎟️ Increase in tickets appearing on resale sites

❌ Removal of away ballot statistics and transparency

📸 Social media influencers popping up at Leeds away 🤷🏻‍♂️

🙉 An ownership that ignores fan reps and supporter groups

🚪 Massive turnstile queues caused by cuts to stewarding

👷‍♂️ Time served, experienced stewards sacked or not renewed

📉 Steward numbers slashed, safety and fan experience treated as expendable

🧬 A deliberate strategy to dilute fan culture and erase generations of supporters who made United what it is

🇺🇸 A strategy to turn our game into a commercialised American product

🎪Flaunting a Disneyland circus stadium no STH fucking wants!

🤬 They do what they want and fuck over the fans

⚠️ It’s only going to get worse
⚠️ And they WILL get to you, don’t think they won’t.

⏰ 1PM
📍 Two meeting points
📢 Be loud. Be seen. Be there. 🔥

The 1958 🇾🇪

[The 1958 @The__1958]

This protest is for:

* Fans being priced out
* Fans being marginalised
* Fans being banned
* Fans being treated as an inconvenience rather than the lifeblood of this club

Manchester United is 150 years old. That proud history, built by generations of supporters, must be protected.
If we do not act now, the club we pass on will be unrecognisable stripped of its culture, its soul, and its people.

This needs to be stopped.
We must fight for our club.
We must fight for fan culture.
Before it is too late.

If you knew you couldn’t play tomorrow, how hard would you play today?

The 1958🇾🇪

[The 1958 @The__1958]

This statement was released today by a collaboration of online accounts. They’ve had enough of the Glazers, INEOS and the way the club treat fans and match going supporters. The inept running of the club and the shite we are served up every week whilst expecting us to pay more for the privilege.

These accounts have a combined reach of over 3 million United fans. They’ll be supporting the protest on the 1st Feb before Fulham.

Putting differences aside to get behind a coordinated, collaborative message that will be spread around the world to maximise impact before, during, and after the protest.

Fair play to them.

The 1958🇾🇪
#UnitedIsBroken

[Terry Flewers @terryflewers]

20 years of Glazer ownership.
Enough is Enough!
#Unitedisbroken

[Stretford Post @StretfordPost]

Letter To @AndyBurnhamGM Mayor Of Manchester.

Dear Mayor Burnham,

I am writing to you not only as a football supporter, but as someone who believes deeply in Manchester’s identity, heritage, and future.

I urge you in the strongest possible terms to reject the regeneration application put forward by Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the Glazer family. This proposal is not about the people of Manchester, nor about football, nor about genuine regeneration. It is about power, vanity, and profit at the expense of a historic institution that helped put this city on the global map.

For nearly 20 years, Manchester United has been systematically hollowed out by the Glazer family. Since their leveraged takeover in 2005, the club has been burdened with over £1 billion in debt, interest payments, fees, and dividends. While rival clubs invested in stadiums, training facilities, local jobs, and community infrastructure, Old Trafford was allowed to decay its roof leaking, facilities falling behind, and safety repeatedly questioned. This neglect was not accidental; it was the predictable outcome of an ownership model designed to extract wealth rather than build value.

During this period, the Glazers paid themselves hundreds of millions of pounds in dividends while the club’s competitiveness, reputation, and relationship with supporters steadily eroded. This is not regeneration. This is extraction.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS now present themselves as saviours, yet their actions raise serious concerns. This project increasingly appears to be a vanity-led redevelopment, using Manchester United’s cultural and emotional capital to secure planning permissions, public goodwill, and long-term commercial upside without clear guarantees that the club, its supporters, or the local community will truly benefit.

Manchester United is not a property asset.
It is not a branding exercise.
It is not a financial instrument.

It is a civic institution, woven into the social, cultural, and economic fabric of this city. The club’s name is synonymous with Manchester across every continent. To allow those who have demonstrably damaged it to now reshape large parts of our city in their own image would be a profound failure of stewardship.

You have long spoken about protecting Manchester from decisions imposed by distant elites who do not live with the consequences of their actions. This is one of those moments. Approving this project would reward two decades of mismanagement and signal that global financiers can exploit our greatest institutions, then return asking for civic approval when it suits them.

Regeneration must be done with the people of Manchester, not to them.
It must be rooted in transparency, accountability, and community ownershipnot debt, leverage, and legacy-polishing.

Manchester deserves better.
Manchester United deserves better.

I ask you to stand with supporters, residents, and future generations by rejecting this application and demanding a vision for regeneration that genuinely serves the city and protects its soul.

Yours sincerely,
A concerned Manchester United supporter

[The 1958 @The__1958]

We posted this over a year ago and its now two years of shame. Nothing will change or get better until this dysfunctional ownership model is resolved. Until then our club, generational loyalty and fan culture will continue to be destroyed.

We postponed what we felt was a needed protest at the start of this season due to fan sentiment.

Are you all feeling the same way now?

The 1958🇾🇪

[Formula 1 @F1]

BREAKING: Both McLaren cars of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have been disqualified from the Las Vegas Grand Prix

This is because the thickness of the rearmost skid of both cars was less than the required thickness

#F1 #LasVegasGP

[Ryder Cup Europe @RyderCupEurope]

OUR TIME. OUR PLACE.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨💣 BREAKING: Bryan Mbeumo to Manchester United, here we go!

Green light from Brentford and club to club agreement reached for £70m package, as @TheAthleticFC reports.

Contract agreed weeks ago with Mbeumo as he only wanted Man United move.

After Cunha, Mbeumo next for #MUFC.

[Formula 1 @F1]

Remembering Jules Bianchi.

Today. And every day. ❤️

[Formula 1 @F1]

BREAKING: Christian Horner is to exit Red Bull Racing with immediate effect

#F1

[Audi Revolut F1 Team @audif1_]

A FIRST EVER PODIUM FOR THE HULK 💚

P19 to P3, a mighty drive for Nico at the #BritishGP 🇬🇧

[Formula 1 @F1]

Finally... Nico steps onto the podium! 🥹

#F1 #BritishGP