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I’ve moved to Bluesky:

[Dave @DaveMT_]

THIS. Why is Rashford, our only proven goal scorer, hugging the right touchline before being subbed on the hour? Ten Hag can keep blaming poor finishing and shocking referee decisions, but he is setting the team up for failure.

[Colin Damms @Colintheshots95]

Rashford and Hojlund have just one big chance missed each. That’s your 30 goal scorer and £70m striker, who have to shot create for themselves consistently.

Garnacho has 7 big misses now, Bruno has 5, Dalot has 3. Even Martinez has 2.

[Dave @DaveMT_]

No other player in the premier league has to deal with nonsense like this. Only Dalot and Eriksen have started all 3 games in the last week; it’s called rotation.

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

🗣️ "There's obviously something that's happened"

Jamie Redknapp shares his thoughts on Erik ten Hag dropping Marcus Rashford from the Man United starting XI 💭

[Dave @DaveMT_]

Good riddance 👋

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Mason Greenwood has completed a permanent transfer to Marseille.

#MUFC

[Dave @DaveMT_]

@MUFSeeAlerts Did they even open it up to all members at 12? Every time I was able to select a seat it still said I wasn’t able to buy one

[Dave @DaveMT_]

He’s finished. Portugal have wasted a great opportunity to win this tournament by pandering to him.

[The xG Philosophy @xGPhilosophy]

Cristiano Ronaldo scored 0 goals from 3.72(xG) at Euro 2024.

[Dave @DaveMT_]

The actions of a club who have *definitely* not broken any rules. Nothing to see here!

[Times Sport @TimesSport]

🔺EXCLUSIVE

Manchester City have launched an unprecedented legal action against the Premier League in a move that has sparked civil war in English football’s top flight.

The outcome could dramatically alter the landscape of the professional game, @Lawton_Times reports

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

After all the sacrifices of lockdown, the Conservative party believes the way to repay Britain’s young people is to ramp up taxes, enlist them into mandatory service in care homes, and use their hard-earned income to fund a "quadruple lock" for pensioners.

The one common thread through British policy of the last 14 years has been destroying the future of the young to pay for the consumption of the old. Investment projects have been scrapped, immigration has run at unprecedented levels to staff care homes and hospitals on the cheap, housebuilding has been slowed to a crawl, ensuring in the process that the property assets of retirees continue to appreciate in value.

The idea that Britain owes anything to its young people is dead in the water. The Conservatives are more or less explicitly rebranding as the Pensioners Party, but Labour won’t be that far behind; the party was making the most of its commitment to the triple lock just yesterday.

Neither party is going to change course. Britain is an increasingly old country. People living longer is obviously a good thing. The problem is that, combined with decades of low birth rates, these improved life expectancies have flipped the population pyramid on its head. The proportion of the population aged over 65 has crept up from 15 per cent in 2000 to 19 per cent in 2022, and is set to reach nearly 30 per cent by 2070.

Between turnout, eligibility, and generational size, the over 55s now form a majority of the voting public. Britain is less a democracy than a Boomerocracy. The results are clear wherever you look.

People now in their 30s are the first generation to earn less than those born ten years before them since the 1930s. Record numbers of young people live with their parents, trapped by a dysfunctional housing market and unstable employment. Millennials spend a far higher proportion of their income on housing costs than the Boomers did at their age, with spiralling rental costs largely to blame. The typical family headed by a thirty year old today would take 19 years to save a deposit for a home. In the 1980s, it would have taken three years. Young people are finding things previous generations took for granted to be effectively out of reach.

Even if a party did want to do something about this, it would struggle to win votes for the size of change that’s needed. The record tax burden in 2027/28 could easily be passed in the 2030s, and the 2040s too. The spending pressures are there to do it; the cost of the state pension and old age benefits is set to rise to nearly 10 per cent of GDP by 2070, while health and social care budgets will take up nearly 18 per cent of output.

Growing our way out would be very difficult. Older countries tend to invest less in public assets, build less, and grow less (why put off consumption or tolerate disruption for a project you’ll never see?). And if we try to resolve that with higher immigration, it puts more pressure on house prices. It feels increasingly like the easiest way out is emigration.

[Dave @DaveMT_]

Ffs I’ve called for his head for months but hard not to feel different in this moment 🥺 Where has this been all season?!

[Emirates FA Cup @EmiratesFACup]

Just a gaffer and his starboys 🫡🌟

Erik ten Hag had words for Kobbie Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho at full-time 🔴

#EmiratesFACup

[Dave @DaveMT_]

Get in! Outstanding performance. Won by 2 teenagers from the academy. Only United!

[Dave @DaveMT_]

He knows it’s over. No one is expecting to win every game but winning less than half of our league games and finishing with a negative goal difference is clearly unacceptable.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Erik ten Hag to @VI_nl: “Manchester United won the league for the last time in 2013, 11 years ago. But still they expect us to win every game while competing at the top. This club is not ready for that”.

“We were supposed to start building something and we made the first steps last year, but then you find out how big this club is and that nobody is ever satisfied”.

“Within the club people were satisfied, but outside the club there was noise by saying I won only the Carabao Cup, lost the FA Cup Final and became 3rd”.

“Well, then you have no sense of reality. Other clubs had a much better squad”.

[Sky Sports Darts @SkySportsDarts]

LUKE LITTLER HITS A NINE-DARTER IN THE FINAL!!! 🚨🤯

[Dave @DaveMT_]

Incredible from Littler again! Great final 🎯

[Michael Cox @Zonal_Marking]

Strange that Chelsea have let this situation develop. 6th in the league, 4th-best in terms of underlying numbers, and on an upward curve in 2024. For the first year of a long-term project with the youngest/newest XI in the league, Pochettino did well.
https://t.co/CDUAx5rgSO

[Dave @DaveMT_]

@Ryan46Phillips Last great season was about 4 years ago! Rashford bagged 30 goals in 22/23

[Dave @DaveMT_]

As bad as Rashford has been this season, he’s proven himself at the highest level and fits the England team so well. Strange decision to leave him out. Is Grealish in better form?

[Dave @DaveMT_]

@PlayStation @Ryan46Phillips we’re getting the band back together

[Dave @DaveMT_]

I’m warming to the idea of Tuchel, but I can seriously see it being Potter…

[Dave @DaveMT_]

De Zerbi not looking as attractive an option as he did a few months ago. As certain as I am that United need to replace Ten Hag, picking a replacement is not easy!

[Premier League @premierleague]

🍒 @afcbournemouth dispatch of Brighton with ease at home 🏡

#BOUBHA

[Dave @DaveMT_]

Stop delaying the inevitable. Sack him now and give someone (literally anyone) a few games to get a team ready for the cup final.

[Dave @DaveMT_]

@ShaznayOfficial @glastonbury @FieldOfAvalon Congrats! Will you be doing any All Saints hits?