MALAISE? YEAH
While Manchester United ended the season trophyless and 15th in the Premier League, they did at least get to join their comparatively triumphant Liverpool, Crystal Palace, Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle counterparts in having an open-top bus parade. Currently serving club-enforced penance for their shambles of a season on a money-spinning post-season tour of Asia, the players – well, four of them at least – were forced to endure the indignity of being paraded through the streets of Kuala Lumpur on a heavily branded giant red doubledecker with ‘Glory, Glory, Man United’ blaring through its speakers, presumably to try to drum up interest in upwards of 12,000 unsold tickets for their Maybank Challenge Cup match against a scratch Asean All Stars side, scheduled to take place the following day.
Your list of TNT lads-and-lasses nicknames (Wednesday’s Football Daily) suggests that Owen Hargreaves doesn’t have one. Does he want one? How about the Big O? Or the Big OHtm?” – Mike Wilner (please see this link – Football Daily Ed).
“As a keen photographer I really enjoyed Jonny Weeks’ Story of the 2024-2025 Premier League season in 100 photos – some of them clearly reflecting some serious fine art. I was particularly impressed with that shot of Liam Delap’s face getting rearranged into a Picasso-inspired Cubist masterpiece by the match ball, and snow on the Anfield pitch channelling Mark Rothko in his little-known green period” – Steve Malone.
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