Can Man United bounce back at Palace?
Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show
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🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The Everton result has sparked a new wave of soul-searching, but is it fair to feel so dispirited by one result against a competent Premier League team. Or, are we still not being harsh enough to an underperforming manager? Doubtless, you have a fairly strong opinion one way or the other.
We decided to try and raise a bit of a laugh with a hastily devised parlour game; a series of United "would you rather?"s. It raised more questions than it answered.
Onto Palace, then. Selhurst Park isn't a traditionally scary place for Manchester United, but then Crystal Palace aren't traditionally this good. Let's hope THEIR European tie leaves them leggy. Meanwhile, Ruben Amorim (and Mark Critchley) have some selection decisions to make.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic F.C. |
| 0:18.6 | This is Talk of the Devils, Athletic Show, dedicated to Manchester United. |
| 0:22.5 | Coming up today, United face a ominous looking trip, shall we say, down to London to face Crystal Palace on Sunday. |
| 0:28.3 | We'll preview that. |
| 0:29.5 | We'll get a little bit of a temperature check, see how we feel a few days on from the despair of Monday night, |
| 0:34.4 | and that defeat to 10-man Everton. |
| 0:36.8 | And we'll also look into some football conundrums |
| 0:39.4 | that may reveal our true heart's desires. |
| 0:43.6 | You might be wondering what I'm on about. |
| 0:44.9 | You'll find out a little bit later on |
| 0:46.2 | and you might want to get involved as well |
| 0:47.7 | so stay tuned for that. |
| 0:52.4 | Right, good morning Carl, good morning Andy and good morning Mark Critchley. Thank you for coming on. How you doing? I'm good, good to be back, boys. I think the last time that I was with you lot was after the Manchester Live show when I was a little bit tired and emotional, shall we say. So sober this morning, that's good. Good to be here with a clear ahead. |
| 1:11.5 | I knew I must have been in trouble because the next morning I woke up off a text from Carl saying, how are you doing? And I thought, I must have been in a bad way. But it's good. I've definitely, yeah, definitely feeling a lot better, a lot clear ahead this morning. But you're coming with beef, I believe. Beef, yeah. well look, if you're going to call me out on the episodes |
| 1:26.0 | and about things that I've written without a right of reply, |
| 1:28.2 | I'm going to have to come back and find some shots off. |
| 1:30.7 | Oh, yeah? |
| 1:31.2 | Yeah, no, actually, I think I kind of agree with your points, to be fair. I think it, so, yeah, I compared the crossing either night, the amount of crosses to the infamous game against Fulham in 2014 under David Moyes. |
| 2:00.5 | And I take your point, like it wasn't nearly as many, it was less than half of that. But I think what I was trying to get at was, there was just a lack of ideas about United. You know, it was like there was one way in which they were trying to break that Everton team down and it was crossing, not as many as that Fulham game. but it was just the throughout the game |
| 2:01.6 | the word clue |
| 2:02.7 | was just kept me |
| 2:03.4 | coming to mind |
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