United We Stand podcast 663. Fulham and the week after.
United We Stand Podcast
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4.6 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Dating apps? Easy. Online shopping? Simple. Banking app? Sorted. Life admin? Ugh. That's what a digital ID could change. |
| 0:14.3 | And the government is opening a conversation to make it work for you. Your voice will shape the final product. |
| 0:21.8 | So search Digital ID consultation to have your say. |
| 0:25.9 | Digital ID, making it work for you. |
| 0:31.8 | It's the first league game in the season, |
| 0:34.4 | and I'm stood on some At Bullsby Way. |
| 0:40.3 | The rain has stopped, and the sun has come out. And Manchester United are about to play Fulham in about five hours time. But Old Trafford is already busy. |
| 0:48.3 | Lots of people milling around. Traffic in Manchester is really, really busy. Yesterday I allowed 70 minutes to get from the centre of |
| 0:58.9 | the city to Carrington for the press conference and I arrived three minutes before it began and I think |
| 1:07.4 | that today might be even worse because not only they're like to be traffic issues |
| 1:13.5 | but there could be ticket issues as well because a new system is being implemented at |
| 1:19.5 | Old Trafford. |
| 1:21.6 | I got the bus to Old Trafford today, the 255 from Hermstom through Stretford. |
| 1:27.9 | It's like being a kid again as it comes over the crest over the Bridgewater Canal |
| 1:33.7 | and you see Old Trafford for the first time and I remember it in the 80s even when the |
| 1:38.5 | stands were half the size you could still see it and it feels lovely because it's a start of a new season and optimism is high, |
| 1:49.2 | and sometimes maybe too high. I think that's applicable to all football fans. And at Manchester |
| 1:56.1 | United this week, I've seen lots of optimism because more new signings have come in and there's an assumption that new signings are going to be, are going to improve the team. |
| 2:06.6 | We're old enough and wise enough to know that doesn't always happen and I'll be a little bit more circumspect. |
| 2:13.6 | I've been pretty pleased with the signings but I want to see what they're like and make a judgment on them not now before the season started |
| 2:19.9 | but when I've seen them play six or seven times I've spoke to lots of people |
| 2:24.1 | about the new signings and that'll be reflected in in the writing and the speaking |
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