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Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show

Man United to return with a win at Everton?

Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show

The Athletic

Man United, Manchester United, Soccer,, Sports, Mufc

4.6771 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Manchester United will return to Premier League action on Monday evening after thirteen days without a game; Harry Maguire, Leny Yoro, Ayden Heaven, and Carl Anka took advantage of the break with trips abroad but Andy is energised by an upcoming trip to Everton's nearly new Hill Dickinson Stadium.

In on-pitch matters, the women's team made serene progress to the Champions League quarter finals by beating Atletico Madrid 5-0 on aggregate; The Athletic's Megan Feringa drops by to tell us about another Jess Park masterclass. There are now high hopes of success for Marc Skinner's team this season albeit Chelsea, Chelsea, and Bayern will provide stiff opposition in the cups.

In a packed show, we also review United's progress to another quarter final; this time in the FA Youth Cup at Oxford with Chris McKenna watching on. Andy has more on his article about the club covering the cost of fans' coach travel to Bournemouth, and we try to answer Eric Steele's trivia question from this week's TotD Extra.


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0:00.0

The Athletic F.C.

0:18.8

This is Talk of the Devils, the Athletic Show, dedicated to Manchester United.

0:23.1

Coming up today, we preview United's first ever visit to Hill Dickinson Stadium to take on Everton on Monday as football resumes for the men's senior side.

0:32.8

It never stopped for everyone else, though, and it's been a successful week on the field with Tuesday's trip to

0:39.0

Oxford in the FA Youth Cup bringing in a win for United Youngsters and as we've been teasing

0:44.6

as well we're going to check in on the women's side who absolutely cruise through to the quarter

0:49.1

finals of the Champions League with a brilliant aggregate victory over Athletico Madrid. Megan Ferringa will join us for that, the Athletic writer, a little bit later on. But Carl and Andy are here. Hello, how we're doing? Carl, you're back. It's good to have you back. Hello, yes, yes. I like more than one Manchester United football player. I used his little break to go on holiday

1:10.9

but I'm back, I'm refreshed, I'm ready to go. How are you? Yeah, we're all right. You didn't bump into Lenny Oro and Aden Heaven training or anyone else for that matter who got a bit of sunshine. You were in Iceland with Harry McGuire, that was a random one. Yeah, Harry McGuire didn't strike me as an Iceland gentleman, but yeah, I hope you enjoyed the Blue Lagoon.

1:29.1

It's a lovely place.

1:30.0

Wherever you can get your rehab, I suppose. There was a brilliant reaction, actually, to our last show while you're away, Carl. And I wanted to say thank you to everyone who's watched and listened to the Eric Steele episode of Talk the Devil's Extra. He was brilliant company.

1:44.9

He had some incredible insight on Sena Lomans, De Hea, Smichael, Van Dasar, some of the

1:49.8

amazing keepers that he worked with during his time at Ultrafford and elsewhere as well.

1:54.5

If you've missed it, go back and have a listen to that. One of the main things we got asked

1:58.8

Andy was about this quiz question that Eric posed

2:02.2

while he was on the show. We had a little bit of an issue with it and there was a bit of argument

2:06.7

over exactly where to draw the lines between what dates and so on. But we're going to do the quiz

2:11.6

now and we're going to take it in exactly the spirit that Eric intended. So the question was

2:16.6

how many players wore the goalkeeper's

2:18.8

shirt between Peter Smichael leaving United in 1999 and Edwin van Dasar arriving in 2005,

2:27.0

which Laurie will be very disappointed to know that Rio Ferdinand is not one of those players

2:31.5

because he did it a few years later in 2008. So there's actually 10 of them. So why not? Let's play the quiz. I'm just going to get the answers up now because that would be helpful, wouldn't it? And then Andy and Carl, you can have a go answering it. So Carl has your real way. It sort of feels like a bit of a cheat because Andy's done this quiz before but you can go first

2:52.3

so there's 10 to get

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