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: Manchester Derby Takes Centre Stage · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

Uh but it's didn't seem to be there didn't seem to be any sort of huge appetite for taking action at that point.

And that left Ireland in a kind of isolated position and the FAI um

you know, didn't want to do anything clearly um that would would upset UEFA.

But I think that you you you could see players now looking at it and thinking, uh

This is this is not something I want to be a part of.

Like Seamus Coleman spoke about it previously, like, you know, in term in in just in the terms of like, you know, we we are people with families, we've seen we've we see what's going on, we we feel the way people the same way uh everyone else or most people in Ireland feel about this.

So I think there will be um more developments in it uh over the over the week.

Yeah, it is it is important.

I think but I I I think there's a there seems to be a more of a flaw in in United than just that as well, Matt.

I feel that there's a there's uh

the lack of urgency in the team.

I thought it was it was notable in the game against Everton last weekend that they there's and a and again against Hull, where there just seems to be um uh uh passivity about what's happening a lot of the time, which again, when Michael Carrick is appointed, he is appointed obviously as kind of, you know, one of the sort of the the the uh

the the kind of Manchester United um you know uh aristocracy if you like, not quite the aristocracy, but uh, you know, one of the players who's who's who's been through the Alex Ferguson years, understands how the club works.

And but one of the things that Manchester United defined that United and that in his early matches last year, especially in contrast to Ru Ruben Amram, was that dynamism and that counterattack

And then this season uh

they've just been they've just been flat.

And even even even last night in the Champions League against Saba, like obviously they won easily in the end, but for twenty five, thirty minutes it was um just a kind of sort of uh performance in in sort of second or third gear.

They just don't seem to be able to lift themselves and

and play in a way that is sort of uh dynamic and cohesive.

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