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Mayne.......there's so much ether laced in this article on United. It's about to be another CRUEL SUMMER!


Pogba is the latest example of the difference between perception and reality that is crippling Manchester United... they are the club pretending to have sex in an empty bed – just like Lingard's mate

At least no one will have to ask Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford where they went on their holidays when Manchester United's players return for pre-season training. No need to waste time on pleasantries. The only catching up they need to do is with Manchester City and Liverpool and we all know that is going to take a while.

But one image of the sojourn Lingard and Rashford enjoyed in Miami Beach may still linger with United fans — and the rest of us — for a while. When Lingard decided to give us a video tour of the apartment the players had shared on their trip, he wandered into one room and captured his friend, Jamal Branker, face down and gyrating with a pillow.

Branker's name may at some point pass into United legend as rhyming slang but the sight of him attempting to have sex with an empty bed seemed like the perfect analogy for a club wallowing in its impotence while the conquests are being made elsewhere. At United, the good times have gone away. All that's left are some crumpled sheets and an urgent need to get the cleaners in.

The club have become the Premier League equivalent of a giant wood-chipper, chewing up the reputations of players and managers, devouring mountains of bank notes and leaving a few piles of sawdust to show for it. The failure of executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward to appoint a director of football in the summer is yet another sign of a club gripped by stasis and incompetence.

They keep being linked with Matthijs de Ligt, the 19-year-old Ajax prodigy. Maybe one should applaud their ambition but is it ambition or self-delusion? Why would a player like De Ligt choose United ahead of Real Madrid or Juventus? Why would a kid with the world at his feet go to a club who look like they are running in quicksand?

Mats Hummels has just knocked them back in favour of a move to Borussia Dortmund even though United offered him more money. So even the cash has stopped talking.

Manchester United, the club pretending to have sex in an empty bed, have a long way to travel before the good times are back.
 
Valentinez A. Kaiser said:
Mayne.......there's so much ether laced in this article on United. It's about to be another CRUEL SUMMER!


Pogba is the latest example of the difference between perception and reality that is crippling Manchester United... they are the club pretending to have sex in an empty bed – just like Lingard's mate

At least no one will have to ask Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford where they went on their holidays when Manchester United's players return for pre-season training. No need to waste time on pleasantries. The only catching up they need to do is with Manchester City and Liverpool and we all know that is going to take a while.

But one image of the sojourn Lingard and Rashford enjoyed in Miami Beach may still linger with United fans — and the rest of us — for a while. When Lingard decided to give us a video tour of the apartment the players had shared on their trip, he wandered into one room and captured his friend, Jamal Branker, face down and gyrating with a pillow.

Branker's name may at some point pass into United legend as rhyming slang but the sight of him attempting to have sex with an empty bed seemed like the perfect analogy for a club wallowing in its impotence while the conquests are being made elsewhere. At United, the good times have gone away. All that's left are some crumpled sheets and an urgent need to get the cleaners in.

The club have become the Premier League equivalent of a giant wood-chipper, chewing up the reputations of players and managers, devouring mountains of bank notes and leaving a few piles of sawdust to show for it. The failure of executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward to appoint a director of football in the summer is yet another sign of a club gripped by stasis and incompetence.

They keep being linked with Matthijs de Ligt, the 19-year-old Ajax prodigy. Maybe one should applaud their ambition but is it ambition or self-delusion? Why would a player like De Ligt choose United ahead of Real Madrid or Juventus? Why would a kid with the world at his feet go to a club who look like they are running in quicksand?

Mats Hummels has just knocked them back in favour of a move to Borussia Dortmund even though United offered him more money. So even the cash has stopped talking.

Manchester United, the club pretending to have sex in an empty bed, have a long way to travel before the good times are back.
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He ain’t far wrong tho, the club still thinks the fergie era will attract big names to the club.
 
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Michel Platini arrest is part of a much wider, bigger probe into Olympics, World Cup and athletics... so is this French policeman about to bring the world of sport crashing down?
  • French policeman Jean-Yves Lourgouilloux is in charge of investigating corruption within sport
  • Former UEFA president Michel Platini has been quizzed over role in Qatar 2022
  • Ex-IAAF chief Lamine Diack has been under house arrest in Paris since 2015
In short, the French investigation, initiated by Parquet National Financier, which is roughly analogous to the Crown Prosecution Service combined with the Serious Fraud Office, is a heavy duty operation. In charge is the debonair Bordeaux-educated Jean-Yves Lourgouilloux, an old-school police investigator who seems to have a healthy disdain for social hierarchies and the status of once-feted sports grandees.

His investigation has meant that Lamine Diack, former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, has been under house arrest in Paris since 2015, as part of a continuing probe into a network of corruption across sport.

Diack was forced to step down as president in 2015 when the seriousness of this investigation became clear, with doping tests covered up and cash paid to companies associated with his son, Papa.

It is not just the award of the World Cup to Qatar by FIFA which is in their sights. French police suspect several major sporting events of the past decade have been awarded due to large scale corruption within FIFA, the IAAF and the International Olympic Committee.

Since the award of events under suspicion, FIFA, the IOC and IAAF have all reformed their respective selection processes, with the IOC pointing out that reforms have strengthened their rules and that a number of members involved have since resigned or been suspended.

French police were initially alerted to the murky world of sports politics when investigating the laundering of money through French bank accounts of Papa Diack, who has absconded to his native Senegal and for whom there is an international arrest warrant in place.

Police allege — and a subsequent IAAF inquiry has corroborated — that Papa Diack was using his influence at the IAAF to try to slow down Russian positive doping tests.

Papa Diack was banned for life by the IAAF. The former head of IAAF anti-doping, Gabriel Dolle, and Lamine Diack are due to go on trial next year. Papa Diack and Valentin Balakhnichev, former head of the Russian athletics federation who is said to have conspired with them, may be tried in absentia. There is also an international arrest warrant for Balakhnichev, who remains in Russia.

But the money trail for those doping cover-ups led French police to something altogether more interesting, namely one of the companies involved, Black Tidings. The Singapore firm appeared to be a shell company run by an associate of Papa Diack, Ianton Tan, who has since been imprisoned for perjury.

Papa Diack's own consultancy firm, PMD Consulting, had its domain name, pmdconsulting.com, registered at the same address as Black Tidings. While Black Tidings had few cash inflows, it had received $2m from Tokyo 2020, hosts of the next Olympics. Payments were split in two, the first $1m tranche in July 2013, two months before voting would take place at the IOC Congress on who would host the 2020 Games — a hard-fought contest between Tokyo, Istanbul and Madrid.

French police have emails of Papa urging his father that 'we have to do more' in the run-up to the vote. They need to establish what that meant. Le Monde has reported that Papa Diack's emails say that another influential IOC figure was 'doing all he can to get the Africans to vote for Madrid! We need to lock this before the pause'.

Papa and Lamine Diack have also denied allegations that it was a payment to influence votes. But the Diacks are also at the centre of another trail of mystery payments which allegedly connect them to Qatar. In 2011, six months after the Sarkozy-Platini-Thamim lunch, Paris Saint-Germain were bought by Qatar Sports Investments. French police want to know why Oryx QSI, a company related to the Qatar firm, ended up paying two payments worth $3.5m in 2011 to another Papa Diack company, Pamodzi.

Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the president of PSG, has overseen the football club's transformation since 2011, bringing in David Beckham, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, the last two costing more than £350m.

A member of UEFA's executive committee, Al-Khelaifi is chairman of beIN Sports, a QSI subsidiary company and suspected of corruption by French police. Technically his legal status is 'mise en examen', which means he is now a suspect in the case rather than a witness. He denies the allegation and his lawyer has pointed out that he was not even an official with Oryx when the payment was made.

Yousef Al Obaidly, another PSG board member and beIN Sport chief executive, is also 'mise en examen' and the man French police have focused on regarding the $3.5m payments. He denies any suggestion of corruption. His lawyer Jean-Didier Belot told The Associated Press last month: 'It's not unusual to make an up-front payment as part of a bid … it was not corruption, but a risk we evaluated.'

Pamodzi, the Diacks' company, has already featured in another corruption trial. Carlos Nuzman, former president of the Brazil Olympic Committee and Rio 2016 Olympic organising committee, is accused of facilitating a $2m payment from a Brazilian businessman to Pamodzi shortly before the IOC voted on who would host the 2016 Games.

Nuzman denies the charges and his trial in Brazil is ongoing. Much of the evidence was provided by the French. Inquiries are also ongoing in the New York's FBI office into separate suspicious conduct.

The tentacles of this investigation spread far and wide and it could overshadow even the IOC scandals surrounding the award of the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City and the meltdown of FIFA in 2015.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/s...igger-probe-Olympics-World-Cup-athletics.html
 
hold up they gave ole girl a free kick like 3 yards outside the goal because she got accidentally spit on.... in my entire life watching football I never seen this
 
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