Chris Weatherspoon The Athletic has appointed Chris Weatherspoon as its first dedicated football finance writer. Chris is a chartered accountant who will be using his financial acumen as The BookKeeper to explore the money behind the game. He is starting with a series this week analysing the financial health of some of the Premier League’s […]
Adam Crafton Manchester United’s match-going supporters knew this reckoning had been coming for much of the season. Since the club’s part-owners INEOS and British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe put their feet firmly under the table at Old Trafford, the focus across the club has been on cutting costs and driving up revenue. By now, we […]
Michael Walker The scene is a weekday morning, some time around 1954. It is Old Trafford, Manchester, and as locals make their way to work, perhaps on the nearby docks, even though it is early, a young blonde-haired boy is belting a ball against the stadium’s red brick walls. He does so repetitively, left foot, […]
Oliver Kay This is football heritage. A four-word sentence that became a meme after Jose Mourinho said it seven times in a single press conference. This was the opposite of “I prefer not to speak”. It was March 2018 and Manchester United had been beaten at Old Trafford by Sevilla in the Champions League’s first […]