Dion Fanning

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485 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Last Word on Sport: Is Manchester United in Crisis? · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

Don't put the word catastrophe out there because it's,

it's not far off when you don't have that track record that makes people believe, okay, we know that he knows how to turn this around.

And you see this now, there's people, you know, on the touchline at Old Trafford now who've paid, you know, premium prices to be there.

There's all these tiers, which again is the same, like, you know, it's almost like dynamic pricing.

Season ticket holders are seen as, they're almost an encumbrance.

These people who've been, you know, may have been going for 20, 30 years and...

go into the club shop every

No, because they go every week.

And what value is that if you know that you can fill the seat and you can probably sell it for a higher price somewhere than somebody who's bought it for 20 matches a season.

So there are all those things.

And this is not just about Manchester United.

Manchester United embodies so much of this issue.

But this is...

what has happened to English football?

What has happened to the ownership of so many English clubs in terms of who they're owned by, owned by private equity, you know, they're owned by the Glazers taking over by putting debt onto the club.

Ratcliffe's

model when he's come in as a minority owner and the cutting of costs, like the cutting of the most ridiculous petty stuff.

And, you know, we saw even last season when he did an interview with Gary Neville and Gary Neville suggested an alternative way and cutting the kind of fund for ex-players.

And Ratcliffe is looking at him going, I don't know why nobody thought of that, basically.

And

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