🚨🚨🚨Some personal news 🚨🚨🚨
After 25 years, 24 of them covering @ManUtd and @ManCity, I’m leaving @DailyMirror and @MirrorFootball
I’ve been privileged to cover more than 1,000 games in @premierleague, @ChampionsLeague@EuropaLeague@EmiratesFACup and @Carabao_Cup as well as reporting on six @FIFAWorldCup and three @UEFAEURO tournaments, not to mention earning at least half a dozen bans from Sir Alex Ferguson!
It’s been an honour to work with so many talented and loyal colleagues, past and present, many of whom have become great friends.
As one door closes, another one opens, and I’m excited to explore new professional opportunities.
Thanks to everyone who has supported me and read my work over the past quarter of a century - even the haters and the trolls!
Below is my final column for @MirrorFootball
Cheers everyone - it’s been a blast!
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The fact that Arteta and his staff were claiming handball straight away and not for a foul shows they didn’t think it was a foul on Raya. That says it all. Nowhere near clear and obvious.
Why is Declan Rice blatantly dragging/wrestling Mavrapanos into the goalmouth not a foul, but an arm across the front of Raya is? Ridiculous decision that has a major impact at both ends of the Premier League.
Rene Meulensteen on Michael Carrick: "You have to have a realistic view of what Michael has walked into. No cup games, no midweek games, and no Champions League, and these are throwing completely different challenges at you when you go into a full season.”
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Exclusive: Man Utd fans urged to pay tribute to Diogo Jota in Sunday’s game by joining Liverpool fans in a minute’s applause for him in the 20th minute #MUFC#LFC@sportbiblesportbible.com/football/foot…
Huge thanks to @manutd for hosting my family and I at the Brentford game in recognition of my 24 years covering them for the Daily Mirror. Particularly special was the thoughtful @stan_chow print from the club, presented by United legend Bryan Robson. What an honour #MUFC
Would humbly suggest Gabriel’s attempted head-butt on Haaland constitutes violent conduct more than Martinez tugging at Calvert-Lewin’s hair bobble #MCFC#MUFC#AFC#LUFC
🚨 MAN UTD UPDATE 🚨
The Man Utd hierarchy have "serious reservations" about giving Michael Carrick the FT job after the Leeds defeat
"It is understood there was huge concern among the United hierarchy at the lack of intensity and purpose in the team's display"
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Harry Maguire’s enduring value to Man Utd was underlined in last night’s 2-1 defeat to Leeds, which he missed through suspension. Here is the inside story of Maguire’s new deal and why he remains so important to United #MUFC @sportbible sportbible.com/football/foot…
Delighted to be working with the talented and dedicated team at @sportbible. First up, the inside story of Man Utd’s farcical 2013 transfer window, likened to “a Benny Hill sketch” and one which set the tone for their decade-plus decline #MUFCsportbible.com/football/foot…