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[suburbanswirl]

Loving my new Grenny.

Jodhpurs and top by PS of Sweden, leather belt by Jasgood, and leather boots by Frye.

[nsdclassic]

Ineos Grenadier

[grbambi63]

Uuuhh principal partner? 👀

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[pphoto]

2026 INEOS Grenadier

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With Pep leaving and Maresca being the favorite to replace him (which I think is a mistake), United HAS to clean house this summer and go big in the summer and winter transfer windows. Next season is the best opportunity any club worth their salt will have to gain colossal amounts of ground on Arsenal and City, or break into Europe if that’s their current goal. Liverpool is still refreshing. City could be a hot mess by their standards if they get their next managerial appointment wrong. Chelsea is in no man’s land and I can’t honestly predict how impactful Alonso will be. Villa is in desperate need of refreshing, Newcastle is wandering in the desert, and Bournemouth is losing Iraola. INEOS, I’m begging you: COMMIT TO THE REBUILD.

[justforbooks]

Britain does not need political lectures from a billionaire tax exile

Comments on the ‘colonisation of the UK’ by the co-owner of Manchester United were erroneous, crass and a gift to divisive forces in British society

In 2020, the year Sir Jim Ratcliffe moved his huge fortune to Monaco, migrants in the United Kingdom made tax contributions estimated to be worth around £20bn. Sir Jim, by jetting off to a tax haven on the French Riviera, saved himself an estimated £4bn. It took some brass neck for the expat owner of Ineos and co-owner of Manchester United football club to lecture the country, using inflammatory and offensive language, on the perils of immigration.

Where to begin? The statistics used by Sir Jim to back his claim that Britain was being “colonised” by migrants, in an interview with Sky News, were flatly wrong. They were also astonishingly crass, coming from a man who presides over a sporting institution famous for and proud of its global fanbase and international connections.

Current Manchester United stars such as Cameroon’s Bryan Mbeumo and Côte d’Ivoire’s Amad Diallo will doubtless have their views on Sir Jim’s intervention. So will its French former icon, Eric Cantona – another coloniser whose genius generated a memorable outpouring of francophilia on the red side of Manchester. Representatives of the club’s many Muslim followers have already given theirs, questioning whether they should feel welcome in United’s Old Trafford stadium.

The Ineos owner’s football interests have given his comments a prominence they would not have otherwise had. But the willingness of a high-profile public figure to echo great replacement theory tropes is yet another disturbing sign of the times.

Sir Keir Starmer was right to describe Sir Jim’s as “offensive and wrong” on Thursday. But he himself was obliged last summer to express belated regret for asserting that Britain risked becoming “an island of strangers”. Reform UK’s highest-profile recruit, Robert Jenrick, has notoriously noted the absence of white faces in a district of Birmingham. The previously unsayable is being routinely said, as Nigel Farage and Reform shift the parameters of legitimate speech in British public life.

A rattled Sir Jim has issued a statement in which he regretted causing offence but asserted the need for “open debate”. Normalising inflammatory language which presents migrants as hostile invaders does not enhance the possibility of civilised discussion. It contributes to the rise of everyday racism and xenophobia on the UK’s streets.

Perhaps the most eloquent response to Sir Jim’s comments has come from the Manchester Labour mayor, Andy Burnham, who said that they betrayed the values for which the city traditionally stood. In the 19th century, its mill workers went on strike in solidarity with enslaved cotton-pickers in the American south. As Reform seeks a statement victory in Gorton and Denton, with a candidate who has made dog-whistle nativism his calling card, Manchester has again become a political crucible.

Mr Burnham, who was denied his wish to run against Reform in that race, is on one side of that fight. The Oldham-born co-owner of arguably England’s most famous football club has given an interview that plays to the talking points of the other. As Nigel Farage’s intellectual outriders speak of a “politics of home”, which casts doubt over certain citizens’ right to be considered British, a billionaire tax exile in Monaco has added grist to their mill. The irony will not be lost on most Mancunians, despite panicked attempts by Manchester United to limit the fallout. But the potential damage done is no laughing matter.

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[unitedbydevils]

PHALLON STAYS

And to think people were miserable about losing Mary...

Okay okay, I shouldn't pit players against each other, but I felt Phallon Tullis-Joyce was a star in the making, waiting in the wings at United, and lo - this season has proved that.

PTJ has signed a new deal until June 2028. What does this mean? Well hopefully that she stays the term but also believes there's a real project and upward trajectory going on at United and Carrington.

Conner from the All For United podcast pointed out that's four senior players secured onto long-term deals now - a huge accomplishment if we're to push on for a WSL title and to unseat Chelsea and genuinely contest Arsenal.

As a United fan, it's great to see, but as a women's football fan it's vital to see. The WSL is talking about expansion and tweaks to the setup because of how dominant Chelsea, and previously others, have been in the league. Teams like United, Arsenal, City and Liverpool - hell, even Brighton and West Ham - we all need to up our game and close the gap on Chelsea, Lyon, and Barcelona. There will always be big teams and seasons where someone pops off, but to do it so many times in a row usually suggests a problem with a system or a league.

You can rightly argue how Chelsea's dominance is any different from City's dominance in the men's Premier League, but in that case at least Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal... even Leicester with their unique season... at least people have interrupted the flow. The WSL is lacking that, and until that changes people will discuss technical changes.

INEOS must continue to support and bolster the women's side. They get their "new" facilities back this summer. Lets not take it off them ever again. The overhaul of the wider academy beyond them is supposed to be incredible and truly elite. Excellent news if so. Lets make sure the funding, the talent spotting and acquistions, and the support is there to maximise the potential of these women so they can achieve that hallowed WSL title, they can achieve progress in the Champions League, and they can continue to dominate in the FA Cup.

Silverware is career-defining. These girls deserve so much.

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