Ten Hag saga is a major black eye for Ineos at a time when United's brand is dying | Barney Ronay

Manchester United cannot afford to carry on being this version of a football club: the history boys, a fading heritage exhibition Well, that's finally happened then. On, now, to the next glorious two-year plan. The last few months of Erik Ten Hag's time at Manchester United have felt at times like a throwback to the dog days of the Soviet Union, when the Secretary of the Central Committee always seemed to be either dead or dying, wheeled out grudgingly to oversee a parade every three months, the...