BECAUSE THEY CAN PLAY F'CKING GOOD FOOTBALL: PART 8

Manchester United enter their 2022-3 defining phase. 'A duke is felled', 'The international break', 'Newcastle gain revenge'. Previous parts below...

ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN

cover: Paradisio Publishing

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through the days

late summer

autumn

winter

spring

the ingot coloured afternoons and eves

of May

this:

this

is

Manchester United

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De aap komt uit de mouw

(Dutch proverb: the monkey comes out the sleeve)

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PART 8

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page 94

OUR DUKE IS FELLED

Man Utd 0 Southampton 0

34 minutes - freeze framed

our season - is this it?

the end - Casemiro

our Duke is sent off 

after Anthony Taylor

is ordered to the pitchside monitor

by the VAR to to re-inspect his yellow

card for Case’s ball-first, scythe Carlos Alcaraz’s shin-next

follow through

challenge.

a 4-game ban

for domestic football.

it is a second red card in eight matches after never receiving a straight red for Real Madrid or Porto.

Erik is not happy, he says afterwards, ‘Players don’t know anymore what is the policy’;

he wants consistency.

we want our Duke back.

tough cookies and chortles from all of our rivals

this is the way - no friends outside of the club and its enthusiasts;

this is ballfoot