Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and today I'm delighted to be

joined by John McKenzie. Hello Joe. Hey John, how's it going? Really good. Now, this is of course

our weekly audio exclusive episode called Ring for Analysis. Here's how Ring for Analysis works.

I read a fantastic article written by

the people at the Athletic, and John rings a little bell when he wants me to stop so he can do

some analysis. And that bell sounds like this. Oh, what a lovely sounding bell that is. Now,

here's the headline of today's piece. Sir Jim Rackcliffe talked about Man United's players, coach, finances and

future one year on. How does it look? Now, this article was written by Adam Crafton, Mark Critchley,

and Chris Wetherspoon. It was published on March the 18th, 2026. If I had the time, as discussed,

if I had the time, I would tell you. Sadly, I don't have the time. And it relates to the fact that Sir Jim Rackcliffe gave a series of interviews last year to the BBC, to the Times, the telegraph, and the overlap. So Adam, Mark, and Chris are looking at the claims he made, the quotes of his from those interviews, and seeing what they look like a year on, aren't they, John? Yeah, and there's a lot of bold claims in those trenches of interviews, and we're sort of interrogating those. There were some based around the concept of finance. Is the club inevitably going to, inevitably imminently going to go bust, Christmas bust by Christmas yeah and then there was

comments made about the players

some of the players not fit for purpose

probably overpaid

probably overpaid the stadium

and the regeneration of the Manchester area

how much the finances could be

pulled from local government

etc stuff we were talking about last week.

And then other things, the cost-cutting that was done, people let go from Manchester United

football club and the wider employment pool.

I love that you said Manchester United Football Club.

That was very Gary Neville.

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