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[Liam @liam_GGMU]

@Cantona_Collars A+ without a doubt

[Rio Ferdinand @rioferdy5]

VAR 2 - 2 Man United 😤😱

[SimplyUtd @SimplyUtd]

📸 Matheus Cunha offside, Florian Wirtz Onside

Nice one 👍 @FA_PGMOL

[Ryan, Carrick's MUFC 🇾🇪 @CarrickWay_]

"Off the pitch"

[basheer… @basheertk_]

Pogba once got 4 assists in a game and Souness said that wasn't anything special because that's what he would expect from a £100m player. And now they want us to accept chance creation for a £120m player 😂😂

[ralph horowitz @rtralphy]

Thursday quiz

On the left is a nurse who made a joke about slicing the throats of Jewish patients under his care, and on the right is a comedian who made a joke about not liking women’s soccer

Guess who lost their job yesterday?

[Liam @liam_GGMU]

@NoContextBrits @DelaneyMan 🤯

[Max Verstappen @VerstappenCOM]

WORLD CHAMPION FORMULA 1 2024 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#LasVegasGP

[Formula 1 @F1]

MAX VERSTAPPEN IS THE 2024 F1 WORLD CHAMPION! 🏆

A brilliant fourth title in-a-row! Incredible!!!

#F1 #LasVegasGP

[Liam @liam_GGMU]

@Carra23 You shat yourself when Licha came over for a chat 😂 😂 😂

[UF @UtdFaithfuls]

Hello @JacobSteinberg 👋

Gentle reminder that the internet NEVER forgets.

The whole world can now see who you are.

[Red Marrow (Meds) @RedMarrow_]

This is @JacobSteinberg, football reporter for the Guardian

2 weeks ago, just before United's FA Cup Final, in an exclusive article for the Guardian, he claimed Man Utd have decided to sack Erik ten Hag regardless of the Cup final outcome.

2 weeks on and we are still waiting.

It has been suggested that the article was a PR piece for a certain manager who wanted the Utd job. Other theories claim sending an already fractured fanbase to turmoil just before the Final was a way to help a certain London-based club whose European qualifications hinged on that result. I guess we will never know the actual reason. In any case, it was a hit job by Steinberg. Fortunately for Utd, it backfired and Utd won the Cup.

Any decent journalist would have retracted the article and kept his head down but not Steinberg. In fact, he used his hate and disdain for Man Utd to focus on the 19-year-old Kobbie Mainoo.

England succumbed to yet another cowardly performance under Gareth Southgate. The goal they conceded was as a tactical failure and as much as Declan Rice and Kyle Walker's fault as anyone's. The bigger questions were why couldn't England score even a single goal against 72nd-ranked Iceland? But Steinberg zeroed in on Kobbie Mainoo with this review of his performances and shielding his fellow London-based Declan Rice from media ire.

A simple Google search told me Jacob Steinberg regularly gives paid lectures on How to be a Football writer. Is this how you become a football writer? By writing hit pieces, being unprofessional, holding grudges, being contemptuous and being a disgrace to the profession?

@guardian_sport @guardian you have a lot to answer

[United Arts 🔴⚪️⚫️ @UtdArts1]

Hi @alanshearer,

You seemed very upset with the people who had criticised the way you questioned Eric Ten Hag after the FA Cup, and in your own defence on the @RestIsFootball podcast you said:
“I know you [ETH] had injuries, but everyone’s had injuries. Liverpool, Chelsea and Newcastle have had injuries… you finished 8th.”.

So you basically feel that injuries in ETH and United’s case are just an excuse. And that’s fine. But would you kindly clarify the following comments you made in defence of Eddie Howe back in March, when Newcastle went through a rough patch due to injuries?

You Said “… there have been mitigating circumstances - THE INJURIES, Eddie Howe still has plenty of credit in the bank. Whatever happens this season, whether they finish mid-table, Eddie Howe will be Newcastle's manager next season." It’s on the BBC’s page.

Do you see the hypocrisy here, Alan? You don’t think this is a valid reason for fans to criticise you? Or are you still going to discard us as ‘bloody United fans on social media’ and stick with the generic ‘But it’s my job to criticise’ line?

[MUFCSWAT @MUFCSWAT]

Say nothing, just like and retweet if you are #TenHagIn

[Alex Turk @TurkTalksFC]

City were always going to win it, and just as inevitably, no one will be arsed next week. Just like barely anyone actually bat an eyelid after they did the treble.

And it’s all because of this. Why should any success built on this be taken seriously?

[The Swedish Rumble 🔰 @SwedishRumble]

🚨🚨🚨Very remarkable that the @FA_PGMOL selects Michael Oliver for the FA Cup Final -- despite it appearing to be a possible breach of the FA's "Regulations for the Registration and Control of Referees".

🔺A referee has an obligation to decline an appointment if he has a "material interest" conflicting with his duties.

🔺Does Michael Oliver have a material conflict of interest? Oliver has -- this season -- accepted what reportedly was a well paid assignment from Manchester City's owner.

Is this material? A Premier League referee can of course not be on the payroll of an owner of a PL club playing in one of the game he is reffing. An auditor who works as a referee on the side and has a client that is a football club, cannot ref a game involving that team. It is different if your cousin's son play for a team or something like that, in which case it could be argued that it is not material. But it speaks for itself in relation to the Premier League, that a ref can't work for one of the owner of a PL club.

What was Oliver paid for his work in the UAE? Say that it was first class tickets to Abu Dahbi, three nights in a five star hotel, and £5,000 for "90 minutes of work" -- I cannot see how anyone could find that it is not 'material'. What would the threshold be, "you can accept payments from an owner of a PL club as long as it is under £50k?"

If Michael Oliver becomes the public enemy No 1 of City after awarding three incorrect penalties to MUFC -- does he get another offer to call games for the UAE Pro League next season?

So what is the problem? Is there any question-marks if the UAE Pro League is controlled by City's owner, Sheikh Mansour, who is the deputy prime minister of the UAE and a core member of the ruling royal family?

It is generally stated that it is not possible in the UAE to separate different parts of government even from the private business sector. KC Murray Rosen -- who is the chair of the PL's Independent Disciplinary Commission handling the City Case -- could for this reason never accept an assignment from the UAE to say prepare a draft for a new constitution or whatever, while being in charge of the City case. It wouldn't even be considered for three seconds. A government official in charge of a large multi billion public procurement for which Sheik Mansour have made a bid, could never accept well paid side job from the UAE while considering Mansour's bid, without facing grave risk of breaking the law. It is unthinkable that this would be accepted. I am not an expert on English law, if anyone familiar with these issues in the UK think I am on thin ice here, let me know.

🔺So why did Howard Webb tell Michael Oliver that he could take the job? And does it matter? First of all, I think Howard Webb should answer this question. Maybe he didn't know that City was owned by the deputy prime minister of the UAE? He was a good ref, maybe geography, politics or whatever isn't one of his strengths... I just cannot imagine that Webb even would consider telling a Michael Oliver that it was OK for him to say accept an offer of 20k from the Glazers to fly to Florida and call a charity game arranged by the Glazers.

But I don't know know the reasons for why he accepted it, I am just speculating.

But does it matter if Webb gave a green light? Of course not, it is completely irrelevant, at least as far as I can tell. Michael Oliver must comply with the FA's fundamental rules for referees. Howard Webb appears to have zero authority to set aside these rules.

And I have said it before, I am very surprised that a PL ref even would consider accepting an assignment from the owner of a PL club. How can they not realize how problematic that is?

🔺But surely, Michael Oliver -- will -- be impartial? But it is completely irrelevant. This is because the Conflict of Interest rules does not exist exclusively to ensure impartiality, it is deemed to be just as important to safe guard the integrity of the game. Let say that it came out that Howard Webb while being a PL ref had been paid 5m by J.P. McManus for a side gig while McManus was the majority owner of Manchester United -- it would significantly damage the integrity of the game, regardless if Webb called every game in an impartial way and never felt any obligation towards Mr. McManus.

🔺From my viewpoint, this is clearly a very problematic issue and I have to say that I think that it is remarkable that the the PGMOL -- in light of the above -- still appoints Michael Oliver to referee the FA Cup Final when Manchester City is playing in it.

[PATRON @UTDPatron]

Imagine being a journalist and getting exposed by community notes you are an absolute fraud @samuelluckhurst

[Liam @liam_GGMU]

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