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WAYNE BARTON ON MONDAY: Ratcliffe can be grateful for the storm across the city
28.09.26, 19:42 5 Minute Read
For a moment last week, the spotlight of the football world seemed as though it would be permanently fixed on Manchester United throughout the international break.
The Sky Sports network of podcasts and its hosts had done a grand old job of creating hysteria around Michael Carrick, and even though Carrick’s team quietened some of that noise with a last minute equaliser at Fulham, the club’s financial results threatened to stoke the fires once more, and then when Sir Jim Ratcliffe made his latest comments about the state of the nation, it seemed as though there would be another political hot potato at Old Trafford following similar remarks earlier in the year.
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Wayne Barton Chief Manchester United Correspondent