Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪

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Sommelier turned Wine Importer.

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

@maxwoody84 I just hope Carrick isn't ignoring it and is just a matter of not airing out the dirty laundry.

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@ando17031993 @ManUtd If only any of that were true

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

I don't know how anyone can spin this into anything other than unacceptable. Utterly embarrassing. How are they so poorly conditioned?

[UtdXclusive @UtdXclusive]

🚨📊 Manchester United’s out-of-possession stats this season:

- 20th in distance at high intensity
- 20th in time spent at high intensity
- 20th in sprints
- 20th in time sprinting
- 17th in % of time walking out of possession

[Sky]

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

@JoeBusbyBabes Would add Dorgu to that list. Nothing against the lad but if he's not seen as a LB option and 3rd choice for the LW, sell him in the summer when his value was the highest.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received state support to the tune of £630m in recent years. Now this 'wealth creator' is leaving the country because he doesn't want to pay taxes and doesn't like black and brown people.

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

3 weeks without Manchester United. What a relief.

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@Audrey20450946 Don't worry, INEOS will sort that out next window.🙄

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

@jthemmings If you're avoiding pay your fair share of tax, you don't get to complain about resources being stretched, which is the crux of the issue.

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@eibles That's it. TRA was a great idea and then they pissed them off as well. A lot of the stuff that they're doing could have been so easily avoided

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

Brilliant post. I'm far from a match going fan. But you can't help but empathise with men who grew up supporting the club with their dads & wanting to share that with their kid. INEOS have been taking one PR hit after another while giving little back. They need a good comms dept.

[Melly Barnes @Ta1kingTurf]

A long read, but its the truth!
I genuinely think we are watching football loyalty slowly die and I don't know what replaces it.
I've followed Man United home and away for decades. Thousands and thousands of miles, trains, cars, coaches, hotels, stupid kick off times, days off work and an absolutely frightening amount of money.
But forget the money for a minute because you can always earn more money.
You can't get the time back.
Weekends away from your wife and kids, family things you've missed, holidays planned around fixtures, getting home at stupid o'clock then getting up for work a few hours later.
And none of us were forced to do it. We did it because we fucking loved it.
When the fixtures came out you didn't think do I fancy that game?
You thought right, how am I getting there?
That's the difference.
And lately I've noticed more and more people I've known through football for years saying the same thing.
"They can have my ticket."
That's not normal.
These aren't people who started supporting United because they won a trophy last year. These are lads who've been everywhere following them.
And before rival fans jump on with the glory hunter stuff, that doesn't really wash anymore either.
Yes, Manchester United were ridiculously successful. We were spoilt for years and I'll never pretend otherwise.
But we've been mediocre for the best part of 12 years now.
There are kids going to Old Trafford today who've never seen Manchester United win the league. For some of them, United being bang average is basically all they've ever known.
What glory are they hunting?
They're still going.
Their dads and mams are still taking them. They're still buying the shirts, travelling away and growing up supporting United.
So this isn't about demanding we win the league every year.
Football fans can handle losing. Fuck me, we've proved that.
It's everything else.
You can have a Saturday night kick off now where you're £100 for a train, £100 for a hotel, ticket, food, drink and you're basically writing off 24 hours of your life. Sometimes you're fucked for work the next day as well.
And increasingly you sit there thinking...
What am I actually getting back from this?
Not trophies. I don't mean that.
I mean from the relationship with the club.
Because it doesn't feel like a relationship anymore.
It feels like a transaction.
You're a membership number. A ticket account. A customer.
And if after 20, 30, 40 years you finally say fuck this, you can have my ticket, it doesn't really matter.
Someone else will take it.
Probably someone who'll spend more money while they're there.
They'll buy the shirt, go in the Megastore, buy the experience, take the photos and maybe pay hundreds more for something that used to simply be part of going to the football.
Financially that might make perfect sense.
But I think football is playing a very dangerous game.
Because the people you're slowly replacing aren't customers.
They're supporters.
They're the people who went when it was brilliant and went when it was shit.
The people who knew everyone around their seat.
The people whose dad took them and who now take their own kids.
The people who didn't need a "matchday experience" because the fucking match WAS the experience.
And I don't even think this is just Manchester United.
I'm hearing supporters from other clubs saying exactly the same things.
Maybe we're just further down the road than some.
Football is becoming an event.
A day out.
A product.
Something you experience once and stick on Instagram.
And maybe that's just the future. Maybe old fuckers like me need to accept it 😂
But here's the bit I'd worry about if I ran a football club.
People aren't as angry anymore. They're just losing interest.
There's a massive difference.
Angry supporters still care.
They protest. They complain. They sing about the owners. They demand change.
When someone who's arranged their entire life around football for 30 years suddenly says...
"Know what? I can't be arsed going."

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

"Immigrants are the problem" says the billionaire residing in Monaco to avoid paying tax...

[utdreport @utdreport]

Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in the UK, describing the country as "on the slide".

"Nobody's tough enough to deal with the immigration problem. Nobody's tough enough to deal with the benefits problem. But somebody needs to do it." [BBC]

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

@VAR_Wars Mr. Free fucking speech himself.

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@VAR_Wars This can't be real...

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

Hi gents, looking at Man United's performances to open the season, the team just looks sluggish unfit. I wonder how much of that is because the preseason conditioning of the team. Could you provide context of what preseason conditioning is like?
@RestIsFootball

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

@colinmufc2 It's got to be a fitness issue. We look miles off it.

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

@RedMarrow_ The pressing structure has never been there under Carrick, which if that is his style, fine. But the tempo feels like it's completely drained at the minute.

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

@RedMarrow_ I hope we're not reading too much into that interview. But I agree. Takes me back to last preseason against Bournemouth. We looked miles better than them and Iraola said as much. Feels like the tables have turned this year against every team we play.

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

@RedMarrow_ Same. The hope is that there's just an element of fitness that this lot don't have right now which will come good eventually. But if they sack Carrick before Wilcox and Berrada, I will lose my shit.

[Jarryd 🍷🇾🇪 @JRad137]

@colinmufc2 Which, with respect, best player or not, he needs to score from there. Not blaming him for the loss alone. But he's not blameless.