Stephen Carty @Jocarty

Some thoughts on the mess at Manchester United, including the crisis of leadership throughout. The only blameless people are the fans. #MUFC

Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox should have no future at Manchester United. They have spectacularly failed at building a squad or appointing a manager and should be replaced.

The UK government has spent years heaping costs, regulation and tax uncertainty onto British food producers, Farmers, and Small businesses - then turns around and tells the public to stockpile three days of tinned food and bottled water because "unexpected events seem to be becoming more common." Official figures show a net loss of more than 3,000 agriculture, forestry and fishing businesses in 2025 alone, the highest on record, with thousands more closures in the years before that. Inheritance tax changes on family farms (even after partial U-turns), soaring energy and inspection costs, labour shortages, post-Brexit trade deals that opened the door to cheaper imports, and chaotic subsidy schemes that left most applicants empty-handed have all piled on the pressure. Local abattoirs have collapsed from roughly 2,500 in the 1970s to around 200 today; surveys of farmers show large numbers warning they may have to stop producing meat locally or exit entirely if the next one closes. This week the government launched its "Be Ready" campaign, advising households to keep non-perishable food, litres of bottled water per person, cash, torches and radios in case of cyber attacks, extreme weather or other disruptions. That is sensible basic preparedness. What is absurd is watching the same state systematically weaken the domestic producers who actually grow and process the food that would make the country more resilient in the first place, while imports fill the gap and rural businesses fold. You cannot talk seriously about national resilience and food security while watching the infrastructure that produces British food shrink year after year. The contradiction is obvious.

It remains utterly astonishing that Danny Tommo is behind bars. Still. Absolutely outrageous.

🚨BREAKING🚨 My house was raided yesterday morning at 5.30am by Greater Manchester Police, one uniformed officer and three from CID, with a live arrest warrant out for me. This is in relation to the attacks on migrant HMOs across Salford. Absolute nonsense. All I’ve done is report what’s happening in our communities using public council information and refused to condemn our own people. I expect to be arrested in the next day or two. I’ll keep you updated. This is a stitch-up for telling the truth. Never surrender 💪🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

David Hunter (@DaveHcontrarian) believes the S&P 500 can still rally to $10,000 before a global bust takes #stocks down as much as 80%. He also thinks #bonds have bottomed and interest rates are headed a lot lower from here. With more than 50 years in the markets, David also reveals why he sees #gold at $7,000 and #silver at $200 in the next three to six months, why buy and hold may stop working, how gold could reach $20,000 in the next cycle, and much more. 🎥 Full interview: youtu.be/0kO_YPtXExU?si…

What INEOS have done at #mufc in less than THREE YEARS. It’s actually scary: • Publicly explored replacing Ten Hag, then kept him and extended his contract. • Spent around £200m that summer, only to sack him three months later. • Spent millions securing Dan Ashworth after months of negotiations, only for him to leave five months into the job due to him not being on board with Amorim replacement due to huge change in playing style amid reports. • Backed Amorim after finishing 15th, then sacked him following a reported breakdown in relations with the hierarchy. Where was that decisiveness over performances? • Ratcliffe publicly said Amorim needed three years in October. He was gone by January. • Retained Matt Hargreaves to lead transfer negotiations, yet we’re still questioning why moving players on and completing deals is so difficult. Hargreaves was working in sports marketing before this role. • Said Carrick was an interim appointment while they took their time finding the right long-term manager. Then gave Carrick the job, reportedly against Vivell’s advice. • Left Carrick going into a Champions League season without signing a left-back or providing adequate squad depth. Now we’re discussing his replacement in OCTOBER. • If Carrick goes, his replacement will be the fourth permanent manager to work under INEOS in less than three years. • Wilcox could get another say in choosing the manager despite his role in the decisions that brought us here. He reportedly wants Eddie Howe. Imagine still having Dan Ashworth… • Ratcliffe identified constant managerial changes and switches in playing style as United’s problem in February 2024. Said the club needed an identity and recruitment to match. They’ve repeated the exact cycle he criticised. • Sold McTominay and signed Ugarte despite reports Ten Hag wanted to keep McTominay. • Moved the women’s team into temporary facilities so the men could use their building during Carrington renovations. • Ratcliffe reportedly asked Katie Zelem, the women’s captain at the time, who she was and what she did at the club. • Made hundreds of staff redundant while spending millions reversing their own decisions on managers and executives. • Raised remaining members’ match tickets to £66 midway through 2024/25, removing concessions for children and pensioners on those tickets. • Moved longstanding season-ticket holders out of their seats to make room for more corporate hospitality. • Scrapped free staff lunches, reduced bonuses and removed free staff travel to the FA Cup final. • Cancelled the staff Christmas party and reportedly replaced the £100 Christmas bonus with a £40 M&S voucher.

"Mother Who Jumped from the Train – Czechoslovakia, 1943. A Jewish mother on a transport train to Auschwitz broke a window and pushed her young daughter out into the snow as the train slowed on a bend. She kissed her once and whispered, “Run.” The girl landed in a ditch, bruised but alive, as the train roared away. Villagers found her and kept her hidden until the war’s end. She never saw her mother again, but for the rest of her life, she told people: “My mother gave me my life twice—once at birth, and once on that train.”

So let’s get this right: the most elite British troops, SAS commandos operating against terrorists, can be placed under criminal investigation for missions undertaken at the behest of their government and for the safety of their country; but actual, known ISIS terrorists can’t be deported from the UK because of their ‘human rights’? We are literally prosecuting our most elite commandos while protecting known terrorists. It’s terrorists’ rights over British citizens’ rights. For shame.

Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund

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EXCLUSIVE: The commanding officer of the SAS was placed under criminal investigation and referred to prosecutors over anti-ISIS mission in Syria. Unprecedented move concerned police request for classified evidence, but effort to charge him collapsed thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

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@Oletrain “Nailed it”- 🤞

SACKING ORDER NEEDED AT MANCHESTER UNITED: 1. Glazers / INEOS 2. Jason Wilcox 3. Rashford / Dalot 4. Medical team 5. Shaw / Licha / Mount / Zirkzee / Maguire / De Ligt 6. Data analysts 7. Scouts 8. Carrick STOP BLAMING THE MANAGER FOR A CLUB THAT'S ROTTEN FROM THE TOP DOWN.

This doesn’t look like a broken man, this looks like a majorly pissed off man that wants to right the wrongs but has the humility to bare all and question himself in the limelight. That squad should be seeing that and wanting to turn this around for him.

utdreport @utdreport

3 days ago

Michael Carrick looks absolutely broken as he begins his press conference with a statement before taking questions.

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Harry Redknapp opens up on… Frank Lampard…“He wants to be as big a success as a manager as he was as a player. Frank would be a perfect candidate to be England manager.” On Michael Carrick... “Like Frank, he has that steely determination. The problem with Man United is well documented. The players are not good enough.” On young footballers… “Some kids have achieved nothing - and they're getting 50 grand a week.” On missing out on the England job in 2012… “If I couldn't have won something with that group of players, I'd have been very disappointed because we had some fantastic players. Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard, Ferdinand.” On West Ham’s move to the London Stadium… “The atmosphere at Upton Park was second to none. When that crowd sung ‘I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles’, the atmosphere was intimidating, incredible. That's gone. It's not the club that I knew. The fans deserve better than what they’re getting now.” On Spurs… “They've got a really powerful, strong squad. I like De Zerbi. I think they’ll finish top six.” On recording a "Sky Blue Line" message for Lampard… “Frank, just keep doing what you're doing. If the players can work as hard as you did as a player every day on the training ground, you can't be anything but successful.” Exclusive interview @FourFourTwo fourfourtwo.com/person/coaches…

Bucha. It was a genocide, recognized by everyone. They buried hundreds of people. They tortured people. We found the grave. There were, I believe, around 500 people. When we liberated those towns near Kyiv, there emerged this, you know, this kind of hatred for the Russians, right at that moment. Not even at the moment when they started the full-scale war. Back then nobody understood what it really was yet. People understood what this war was and what Putin did personally when we found those mass graves of tortured adults, children. I mean they didn't just kill them, they tortured and killed them. When we liberated Bucha, I said, bring every journalist here. Don't touch anything, just bring the journalists. The whole world simply has to see this. Imagine finding a mass grave in the U.S. or in Britain, God forbid, with 500 tortured people, adults, kids, dogs, animals shot dead. I mean, they held hunting sprees there from military vehicles. People were running, they were shooting, just hunting, playing games. They literally just played with people, like slavery. So how, after this, can you listen to Putin? And how, after this, can you forgive? From The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. (2/3)

Jason Wilcox is a narcissist. He changed the way United present new signings, removing the manager from the pictures and putting himself front and centre, as if he deserves all the credit for the signings. After United won just THREE games in a row under Amorim, he went and did an interview talking about success, making himself look like some sort of genius. He’s using this football club to feed his own ego and boost his image. He’s completely incompetent and out of his depth. He should be sacked BEFORE Michael Carrick.

🚨𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Manchester United fans begin nationwide protests against THE GLAZERS and INEOS! Manchester United fans are reportedly taking action against the GLAZERS and INEOS following the club’s disastrous start to the season, with protests now said to be taking place as anger continues to grow. This is bigger than a normal physical protest. Fans are turning up the pressure, demanding accountability and making it clear that they will not remain silent while their beloved club struggles.

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Manchester United fans in the UK have the perfect opportunity to send the Glazers and INEOS a message against their disastrous running of the club: BOYCOTT Bournemouth. Don’t buy tickets. Leave the seats empty. The owners care about money, and empty seats would send a message they cannot ignore. The fans are the lifeblood of this club, and ownership should never be above accountability. But if United fans keep showing up regardless of what happens, nothing will change. The future of Manchester United is in the fans’ hands. Accept mediocrity, and mediocrity will continue.

**You need to watch Zelenskyy's interview with Steven Bartlett.** Sitting in front of the camera is an utterly exhausted, at times visibly broken man who has spent almost five years personally managing a war, making critical decisions day and night. From the very first minutes, you can see just how drained he is. When asked the routine question, "How are you?" he replies that he barely sleeps because he spends his nights in military group chats, moving the last remaining air defense systems from one region to another. Two stories are particularly heartbreaking. The first is about a missile that struck a children's playground within seconds, while parents watched from their apartment windows as their children were torn apart. The second is about presenting posthumous military awards to the families of fallen soldiers: "You present an award to a father, feel his strong hand, and then he quietly asks, 'Can we hug?' At that moment, I simply cease to exist inside. These people are gone. They will never be the same again." When the host tries to take him back into his past, showing old photographs from Kryvyi Rih, his student comedy performances, his voice acting as Paddington Bear, and scenes from *Servant of the People*, Zelenskyy looks at them with detachment, almost as though he is watching someone else's life. He also recalls February 2022 without any attempt to portray himself as a hero. He says that for the first 20 days, he simply ran from office to office on adrenaline, calling everyone he could and trying to organize deliveries of water and food to Kyiv. Fear and the full realization of what had happened only caught up with him three weeks later, when Bucha was liberated and mass graves containing hundreds of murdered civilians were discovered. Using Bucha as an example, he explains why advice from outsiders to simply negotiate a quick deal causes him such deep frustration: "Imagine that in the United States or Britain, a mass grave is discovered containing 500 tortured people with their hands tied. How could you simply forgive everything after that?" The rest of the conversation revolves around the deadlock in which Ukrainians, and indeed everyone involved, now find themselves. Zelenskyy explains the causes of the war in simple terms: Moscow is trying to forcibly rebuild the Soviet empire because Ukraine's integration into Europe would finally bury that project. But when the conversation turns to the present, there is unmistakable bitterness in his words. Almost one-fifth of Ukraine's territory is occupied. The east is under relentless bombardment. Cities are left without electricity. People are dying every single day. Meanwhile, every discussion about a ceasefire runs into the same demand: Kyiv must withdraw even farther from its fortified positions, without any guarantees that Russia will not launch another offensive a year later. Toward the end, the conversation turns to Trump and Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities. Trump publicly reprimands Zelenskyy over attacks on Russian refineries because he fears rising diesel prices for American farmers ahead of the elections. And this is where you can see just how deeply that approach affects Zelenskyy. His country is burning. Moscow has rejected his proposal for a mutual halt to attacks on energy infrastructure. Patriot missiles paid for by Europe are being redirected by the Americans to the Middle East. And somehow, Zelenskyy is the one being blamed for fuel prices in the United States. The entire interview leaves you with a profoundly bleak feeling. Here is a man trapped between the daily deaths of people in his own country and the pragmatic bargaining of allies who have their own elections, their own interests, and their own political calculations. And yet, he can no longer step away from this responsibility. **Watch it.**

Michael Carrick making his points before being asked questions. Sir Alex Ferguson used to do that.