Dan Ransom

Interested in all things psychology and football | @ljmufootball @manutd

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Welcoming our new #MUAcademy scholars for the 2024/25 season! 🤝

#MUFC

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Amazing scenes

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

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[Manchester United @ManUtd]

🏆 #U18PL CHAMPIONS!!! 🏆

Thoroughly deserved, lads 🤩👏

#MUFC || #MUAcademy

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

So, so deserved.

Kobbie Mainoo has received his first call-up to the @England senior squad 👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#MUFC || #ThreeLions

[Nick Cox @Coxy3012]

The Academy journey prepares players by exposing them to scenarios that replicate what they might encounter in the 1st team

Nov ‘22 Kobbie celebrating his winning penalty @ Molineux for the U21s

Feb ‘24 Kobbie celebrating his winning goal @ Molineux for the 1st team

#mufc

[Dan Ransom @DannyRanss]

Changing lives forever and for better @ManUtd #YouthCourageSuccess

[Nick Cox @Coxy3012]

Inside The Academy Nick Cox reviews 2023 for Man Utd | Manchester United

#mufc #muacademy #YouthCourageSuccess https://t.co/lN1HHeCVjN

[Philip Buckingham @PJBuckingham]

The crap bits of football can often lead you back to the good. A Gofundme has been set up for the staff and players of Scunthorpe United, who have not been paid today. Half an hour after its launch, over £2k has been raised.
https://t.co/AN25rCf5DF

[Dan Ransom @DannyRanss]

@ddevaney88 @ElliottSportPsy @EPMPodcast @PsychSidd @DocShipherd @Angelbrutus1 @DrQuincyDavis @KatieWarriner @Sarahsportpsych @SportingSuccess @StephTibbert @domohara @Nick_Wadsworth @ckmarshall @kategre1 Over to you @cluthardt_sp @lewis_charnock @MLangagergaard @LarsenHvid

[Dan Ransom @DannyRanss]

@ddevaney88 @ElliottSportPsy @EPMPodcast @PsychSidd @DocShipherd @Angelbrutus1 @DrQuincyDavis @KatieWarriner @Sarahsportpsych @SportingSuccess @StephTibbert @domohara @Nick_Wadsworth @ckmarshall @kategre1 In psychology do we do things to or on people.. or do we do things with people?

[Nick Cox @Coxy3012]

It was an honour to be in the room to see Sir Alex present Dave Bushell with the Eamon Dolan Award

Dave is one of the greatest developers of young people this country has seen

He deserves to be recognised by the @premierleague for his contribution to football

#MUAcademy

[Dan Ransom @DannyRanss]

Great opportunity for a sports scientist passionate about supporting the development of young players @ManUtd !!

[matt walker @mattpwalker1]

🚨 We are hiring 🚨

Looking forward to welcoming the right person to the team

Any help sharing this via your network to widen the field would be great

@davecarolan
@rossburbeary
@FootballFitFed
@JayEastoe
@tom_huelin

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[Dan Ransom @DannyRanss]

@AshdownBen @NTUSportScience Thanks for having me Ben!

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Success is far more than just a first-team debut 🎓❤️

#MUFC || #MUAcademSuccess is far more than just a first-team debut 🎓❤️

#MUFC || #MUAcademSuccess is far more than just a first-team debut 🎓❤️

#MUFC || #MUAcademSuccess is far more than just a first-team debut 🎓❤️

#MUFC || #MUAcademy

[Dan Ransom @DannyRanss]

Great to have @DHunt94_TX and @TheByronJones sharing their experiences with our PDP players this week! “If you’re looking for an advantage, become a student of the game” #MUAcademy

[Nick Cox @Coxy3012]

@DHunt94_TX and @TheByronJones are athletes that take their commitment to learning and improvement to a different level.

It was great to have them spend time with our young players and share advice this week.

#mufc #MUAcademy

[Nick Cox @Coxy3012]

Introducing The Academy Mountain…

#mufc #muacademy

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Strap in, we’re going on a ride from Westminster to the Isle of Man. This is the story of Michelle Mone and that £29m.

[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

It's all going terribly well - find out just where you stand with the brand new Private Eye, on sale now!

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

A record to be proud of 🧬

#MUFC || #MUAcademy

[Dan Ransom @DannyRanss]

@fotballjj Haha 😂 good guess… 🇩🇪