Dion Fanning

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589 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3d ago

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

There's a fundamentalist dogma that's attached to some of these people like Radcliffe, which jars in a club like Manchester United, which is still a club among a lot of the supporters who are working class, Northern English, and have certain values that don't align with the Brexit-supporting Jim Radcliffe.

Vaguely.

I remember, you know, I do remember.

I remember the period.

I remember the time.

As you said, he wasn't somebody who detained us very long.

He played twice for Ireland at that time.

And I think what Tony says is right.

It is unusual.

One of the things that you often see and you hope for in a footballer is that they actually have...

you know, a professional footballer in their family, like a father like that, because it often tends to work in the opposite way that it actually, you know, they've got a good grounding in the game.

They understand the pitfalls, they understand what can go wrong and the father can kind of guide them through it.

And it's often, you know, it's often you just see it as a kind of a shortcut to kind of thinking, okay, this guy is going to be kind of well looked after.

So for it to be happening like this,

is extraordinary.

Now, the other thing I would say about this, this has always happened in football.

And the other thing is, it is happening more and more at levels, not even at this level.

You talk to anyone in football, they will talk to you about, because there is money seen, money isn't very far away if you have any kind of reasonably talented footballer.

So people, the amount of parents who

far too soon start thinking in those terms about their kid.

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