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Paul Mescal As George Best? Casting Man Utd’s New The Crown-Style TV Drama

Everyone from Sir Alex Ferguson to David Beckham will have to be cast in a The Crown-style TV drama series which has been reportedly picked up by Lionsgate.

Sports Illustrated

Are the class of 2025 really the worst Manchester United team of all time?

Ruben Amorim thinks so, but other managers have faced similar struggles. Here is a trip down memory lane to some of the worst crises at Old Trafford …

The Guardian - UK

Guess the Premier League season from the nationality of the managers – quiz

The flags signal the nationality of each club’s manager on the final day of the season in the order the teams finished. Good luck!

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'Big Ron would refer to himself as "Ginola" - he trained with us and he’d be the star of our training sessions': Ex-Coventry star recalls Atkinson playing like Frenchman in training

Ron Atkinson was over 50-years-old when he managed Coventry City in the Premier League, but that didn't stop him from claiming Ginola's play-style

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Notable player-managers in English football

A look at some of the stars who did two jobs at once

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Have Ipswich recorded the longest sequence of palindromic results?

Plus: plenty more pitch trickery, team captains on loan and the Manchester United player with a one-second career

The Guardian - UK

English managers who coached abroad

From La Liga to Serie A and further afield, a look at some English managers who tried their luck at coaching abroad...

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Manchester United's best homegrown players ever

Ranking the finest talents to emerge from Manchester United's famed youth system

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Martin Edwards on Sir Alex Ferguson’s move to Manchester United: “Terry Venables was mentioned, but I made up my mind quickly that he was the one”

Former Manchester United chairman explains how the club lured Ferguson from Aberdeen in 1986 – a move that changed history

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The best football managers of the 90s

Ranking the decade's greatest gaffers

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‘It was a sickening end’: voices from inside Aston Villa’s last title challenge

Villa were top at this point in 1998-99, still first after 20 games, but fell away to finish sixth after an 11-match winless run

The Guardian - UK

Iconic Aston Villa celebration happened by accident: Dean Saunders shares the amazing story

In an interview with FFT, the striker remembers Dalian Atkinson's famous chip – and why he ended up holding an umbrella

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Manchester United are repeating a familiar pattern. Sacking Ten Hag won’t change that

Victory at Fulham eased the pressure on Erik ten Hag, but the club’s biggest problem is the ownership – sacking the manager won’t change that

The Guardian - US

Mauricio Pochettino confident of avoiding dugout gaffe on return to Tottenham

Pochettino is preparing for a special occasion on his first reunion with Tottenham since being sacked four years ago.

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‘Struggling’ Tommy Spurr steeled for charity fundraiser in aid of his son

Four-year-old Rio was diagnosed with Wilms Tumour, a form of kidney cancer, last April.

The Guardian - UK

Erik ten Hag’s strange charisma is reigniting United’s fighting spirit

Signing strong, bright characters means the manager now has the players to make up for a lack of personal magnetism

Liverpool Echo

'Emotionless killer' scored 40 goals in debut season, led Tranmere to Wembley and slapped 'disrespectful' substitute

John Aldridge was 32 when he joined Tranmere Rovers, but he would stay at the club for a decade, becoming a true great of the club

Liverpool Echo

'I was embarrassed and the dressing room didn't let me forget' -Liverpool cult hero best remembered for all the wrong reasons

Ronnie Rosenthal became English football's most expensive overseas player when Liverpool paid Standard Liege £1.1m in the summer of 1990 following a whirlwind loan spell which breathed new life into the Reds' title challenge and the popular Israeli enjoyed a brief but eventful spell at Anfield

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