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Hawksbee & Jacobs Daily

KICKED TO THE CURB!

Hawksbee & Jacobs Daily

talkSPORT

Sports, Sports & Recreation, Comedy

4.5792 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Today we had an explosive episode as MANCHESTER UNITED SACKED RUBEN AMORIM as well as CELTIC SACK WILFRIED NANCY! We are joined by ex-Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster to see what he thinks of his former club's actions! As well as talkSPORT's own Ben Jacobs and Micky Gray to get their take on what was in the air today!!!

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. You're listening to the H&J Daily on TalkSport with me, Danny Kelly and Andy Jacobs.

0:06.0

Now we had a massive day full of surprises, as we covered not only Ruben Amarim, now ex-Manchester manager being sacked, alongside Wilfred Nancy.

0:16.0

Celtic Boss also sacked. We were joined by Ex-Manchester United goalkeeper of Ben Foster to get his take on this

0:22.2

shocked move alongside Talksport Correspondence Ben Jacobs and Mickey Gray also had their say. Here it is.

0:34.3

For all, let me say that what a great morning it is, or is it, for the managers of West Ham and Tottenham, respectively, that they suddenly are not the big story. And I love Andy that I suppose I'm ahead of the tabloids here. Amarim replaced by interim. It's a great moment in football, isn't it?

0:57.0

We will get on to the Manchester United in just a second. I mean, it's been covered in great depth already.

1:02.0

There's loads of stuff about it on Talksport website. And we will keep coming back to Ben Foster,

1:07.0

former Manchester United Goldquit will join us in a little while to discuss exactly how we've got to this.

1:13.1

Andy Brassel be with us and Brousel knows Amarim's work in Portugal in particular inside out and he'll be trying to work out with us.

1:21.8

What happens when people get to Manchester United?

1:24.9

And Andy, but I must start, if I may, by saying that, of course, this is not the first

1:29.3

high-profile manager to cross swords with the club's administration and immediately be shown

1:36.3

the door of the exit. Because same thing exactly your club, Chelsea. You delighted? Well, I'm not,

1:43.8

I'm not sad, put it this way. I mean, I was no great fan of Moreska. I didn't really like the football. He did a good job. It doesn't really matter who is the actual manager of Chelsea, because we all know how it works. Where these blokes go wrong is, they don't seem to realize what their job is. Their job is two things. It's to basically

2:01.6

coach the team and then take all the flack. That's their job. So once they start trying to make

2:07.9

themselves look good in front of the fans by saying, well, it's not me actually. It's the people

2:11.5

above me. Well, you know, the minute you do that, you're gone. So Moreska definitely engineered

2:17.0

his own exit.

2:17.9

Maybe he knew this was going to happen.

2:19.3

Who knows? He might turn up at United. Nobody knows. But, I mean, once they start that, then it's just, you know, hopeless, isn't it really? But isn't this the, you know, this will be a recurring theme, no doubt, during the next three hours. isn't this something we, those of us who watch football

2:36.4

for any time, got to get used, things have changed. The idea of the manager stroke head coach

2:42.0

running the club and people will come on and say, oh yeah, but Pep runs the club. I bet you

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