Day: December 12, 2024

You don’t have to sound like an embittered grandad with a vengeance against the modern world to be more than miffed about vast trappings earned by today’s highly paid footballers in comparison to the stars of yesteryear. Many Premier League players cart home £100,000 a week - often for doing little more than warming the bench, running down the clock or making cameo appearances. They live in a collection of homes – the archetype being a leafy Cheshire or Home Counties mansion, from where they drive their 4x4s to state-of-the-art…

Here’s one for a good pub conversation – who is Man Utd’s great ever player? Charlton, Best, Law, Beckham, Cantona, Rooney, Ronaldo, Robson, Giggs, Scholes… from Billy Meredith to Paul McGrath everyone has a favourite and the list of candidates is seemingly endless. Most we saw in their prime and with the benefit of hindsight having viewed a full career. But sometimes the good die young – as Marvin Gaye once sang – we just looked around and they were gone. Eight Busby Babes lost their lives at Munich –…