Man United end of season awards 2025/26
Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The dust is settling on another Premier League campaign and, as the summer solstice looms on the horizon, it's time for our annual end of season awards.
It's a much happier, therefore considerably less tongue-in-cheek, set of awards than this time last year as we decide the player of the year (who's not the marvellous captain bruno) and the best first-season United player.
We also choose our favourite from a pretty healthy selection of United goals as well as the best moment not involving a goal. There are no prizes for picking out our favourite podcast guest, but plenty of smackdown for our (very) bad takes revisited.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FFC. |
| 0:20.7 | This is Tock the Devils, the Athletic Show, dedicated to Manchester United. |
| 0:24.7 | Coming up today, we give out our end-of-season awards. |
| 0:27.9 | The 2025-2020s season is in the books, and we're going to take a look back at the runners and riders |
| 0:35.1 | for some of the top awards that we've made up, basically. Some of them are traditional, some of them a little bit less so. We'll also take a look back at some of our predictions for the season. Do we have to do that? I guess we do, unfortunately. And to do all of that, we've got Andy on the line at home, and we've got Critch and Carl in the studio here in |
| 0:54.9 | Manchester so how we're doing it's a week since Manchester United last kicked a ball in anger |
| 0:59.4 | how do you reflect on it all Carl that was quite pleasant in the end wasn't it I think about |
| 1:03.9 | some of the more depressing episodes we recorded in October time and December time |
| 1:10.5 | they feel a while ago, don't? |
| 1:11.7 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, almost, yeah, two or three years ago now. |
| 1:14.8 | But I feel good. |
| 1:16.1 | I'm looking across the Premier League, other clubs that are in the middle of chaos and transition. |
| 1:21.0 | And I'm going, oh, this is all right. |
| 1:23.3 | Yeah, everything is happening elsewhere, isn't it? |
| 1:25.5 | That's unusual. |
| 1:26.3 | That's unusual, and it's unusual at the same time for United, just feel very serene. Like, as well as it being nice and pleasant, it's also felt calm in a way that I haven't, the cover in the club hasn't really felt like that since maybe 10 Harg's first season, the summer going into that that and the bit of turmoil that there was that |
| 1:44.5 | summer it's felt very different and I think that's it's down to one man it's down to Michael |
| 1:48.7 | Carrick and his the aura the vibe the his his personality the character that he has it's just |
| 1:54.4 | come in settled everything down and this soap opera of a football club has been barely enough |
| 1:58.8 | to fill an episode in terms of drama. |
| 2:01.9 | Oh no, we filled episodes. |
| 2:02.6 | Don't worry about that. We filled episodes, yeah. Yeah, we don't know right with that. We're about to fill another one. I can see someone nodding out the corner of my eye, so I'm guessing you agree with that sentiment, Andy. I do. Loads of encouraging signs from last season. I think Manchester United overachieved. European football was the target |
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