Billionaires and banter wars: modern football’s script is stuck on repeat | Barney Ronay

Unusual storylines are growing ever rarer due to the influence of the super-rich and nation states in our national gameAdmit it, when Erik ten Hag walked out holding a microphone after Manchester United’s final home game on Wednesday night you also thought he was going to start saying things like “Your job now is to support the new manager”, before marching off to write books containing anecdotes about Richard Branson.In the event the most notable part of Ten Hag’s speech