Sounds like Manchester United are going to have to refocus on being a successful football club rather than a global brand. Because it was being a successful football club that made them a global brand.
Alan Biggs
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Alan Biggs
@AlanBiggs1
Footy reporter. talkSPORT/ Sky & Sheffield Star/Telegraph columnist. Author of Confessions of a Football Reporter (& others). TV/ vid & event host. Family bloke
- All I know is … if 30,000 people are still in this stadium after 10pm tonight it’ll be one of the most dramatic nights of football any of us will ever have witnessed …
- Replying to @AlanBiggs1Match programme & pre-match tributes to a lovely person & fine footballer. Maddy Cusack RIP. #SUFC
- If the FA risk a penalty & a World Cup place to wear the poppy, that will bring more pride than the team has given us for a very long time.
- There were around 26,000 #SWFC fans in a crowd of 29,000 at Hillsborough on Sunday - to watch a team rock bottom of the Championship. Owls fans also sell out virtually every away game. If that’s not forking out to “save” your club then I don’t know what is.
- Leeds win again. Bielsa has been nothing but brilliant for English football with what he puts on the field & the way he presents himself off it. They’ll do it this time.
- Can offer an insight into Steve Bruce’s Feb 1st start at #swfc. Simply - in 2018, when both his parents sadly died, Steve’s wife spent months helping tend them while he worked at Villa. He pledged to repay her in time off football - before the Owls approach.
00:00- Born in Sheffield. Played for Chesterfield. But belonged to everyone. Gordon Banks RIP
- Very sad news. Been asked to post on behalf of the family that Don Megson has left us at the age of 86. A Sheffield Wednesday icon (1959-69). Captained #SWFC in ‘66 FA Cup final. Son Gary says Don passed peacefully. Such a fine player & man. RIP
- TV panel making an issue of Bruce starting date when there is no issue. No issue with the club. No issue with the fans. Pre-arranged break. All agreed beforehand. And arranged before the #swfc offer.
- Convinced that #NFFC are a team that will rapidly climb the table. And rapid is the word. Such pace in the team. Electric 2nd half for 3-1 win at Barnsley with goals from Zinckernagel, Johnson & Grabban. Steve Cooper’s 1st win. There will be more.
- Hearing via the club that @SteveBracknall will spearhead a kit relaunch at #SWFC. You’ll recall he took a principled stand by refusing to do it while Dejphon Chansiri still there. Should be another boost to financing club & wages under an administration rebirth.
