Mailbag: Has Ruben Amorim ruined his reputation?
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Ruben Amorim era is officially over at Manchester United – what's next? Marcus, Luke and Jim shake their heads at the league's most chaotic club and pay respect to football's greatest magnet-user.
Elsewhere, there's some serious and not-so-serious nominations for ex-players returning to their clubs as managers, and should Arsène Wenger get a stand at the Emirates? At least a little bar?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the Football Rammell Mailbag. |
| 0:04.0 | Ruben Amarim, managers on the move and renaming stands of the orders of the day. |
| 0:07.6 | It's Tuesday, 6th of Jan. I'm Marcus Speller. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Luke Moore. And I'm Jim Campbell. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello, everybody. Good to have you with us for the mailbag. |
| 0:28.2 | All right. |
| 0:28.9 | How's it going? |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, good geese you. |
| 0:32.4 | Jim, you're right, fella. |
| 0:32.9 | Yep. |
| 0:35.5 | Are you doing, boss man? |
| 0:36.3 | You right, chap? |
| 0:37.2 | Yeah, good. |
| 0:55.1 | Never understood boss man. You're elevating the person you're talking to, probably possibly to an unnecessary status. Yeah, Marcus never understands elevating the person he's talking to. He needs to be in the big seat. That's not true. There was a guy that ran the local shop when I used to live in East London, who for a long time called me my friend, |
| 0:55.8 | which I really enjoyed. |
| 0:56.2 | Yes. |
| 0:57.5 | But I was upgraded to Boss. |
| 0:58.8 | I was like, okay, that's good. I don't know what I've done to earn this promotion, but I'll take it. Yeah. It's good. It lifts you up. Yeah, okay. Maybe I'll try it. Luke got called Big Boss by Cabab Band. Ocean Breeze cabab shopping. |
| 1:07.5 | Gosport's not there anymore. |
| 1:08.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.1 | But did you remember the one in... |
| 1:10.6 | Bellybusters? |
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