I wrote about the increasing contradictions of Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s persona and project at Man United. There’s the obvious ones in this tickets increase but even more fundamental ones in the quest to simultaneously build a world-beating team and world-beating stadium. www.nytimes.com/athletic/595... - ThreadSky

adamcrafton.bsky.social • 132 days ago

I wrote about the increasing contradictions of Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s persona and project at Man United. There’s the obvious ones in this tickets increase but even more fundamental ones in the quest to simultaneously build a world-beating team and world-beating stadium.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5953380/2024/11/28/ineos-ratcliffe-ticket-price-rises/?source=emp_shared_article

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plasticscrisis.bsky.social•97 days ago

He’s a petrochemical billionaire who knows exactly what the legacy of his chemical and plastic pollution is doing to human health. Sportwashing has been a good way of ensuring that people walk around with the name of a company that makes carcinogens and endocrine disrupters on their chests. Clever.

craigs79.bsky.social•131 days ago

He’s in it for the profit nothing more…..typical tax dodging fraud

adamcrafton.bsky.social•132 days ago

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5953380/2024/11/28/ineos-ratcliffe-ticket-price-rises/?source=emp_shared_article

sevener.bsky.social•131 days ago

I don't think I agree with the premise here. I understand why ETH was kept, and also why he was fired. I think De Light and esp. Mazraoui are good signings regardless of ETH's presence, and shouldn't be used as a cudgel. And we did just return to profitability.

sebmathers.bsky.social•132 days ago

That third para is cold. The timing of price increases is not great. The business would probably argue there is never a good time to raise prices. Goodwill or not, I still prefer SJR to Glazers as the face of the club.

kuffel13.bsky.social•131 days ago

Anyone who thinks that the Premier League isn’t turning into the NFL is delusional. It’s just a matter if time.

rubensreddevils.bsky.social•132 days ago

All decisions that needed taking, SJR can’t win in a situation like this, but he didn’t become a billionaire by being nice.

As the Glazers shield he’ll have expected this and more.

Decades of mismanagement by the Glazers, milking the cash cow dry, what did you think was going to happen?

adamcrafton.bsky.social•132 days ago

it’s beyond apologism to suggest removing concessions was inevitable. It wasn’t and isn’t.

rubensreddevils.bsky.social•132 days ago

The minority of supporters who this will affect I assume will be happy to continue to sit in a crumbling OT.

I wonder in their general life do they moan about the cost of fuel to the game, cost of parking, cost of shirts they buy and so on and so on.

All the above (and the experience) is a Luxury

rubensreddevils.bsky.social•132 days ago

Why didn’t your article have a comparison to other clubs prices for a start, balanced.

As I said he can’t win. What so he carries on with ETH indefinitely, as we slump even further down.

What so he doesn’t go out and find the next (hopefully) big manager and gets an even worse one for nothing

adamcrafton.bsky.social•132 days ago

It’s bizarre to me you think that the cost of poor decision making by a management team should be transferred to children.

rubensreddevils.bsky.social•132 days ago

How cute.

How absolutely ridiculous, your just twisting words

So it’s the children paying is it, they physically hand over their pocket money

stamnley.bsky.social•131 days ago

When he fucked over the club staff it was obviously going to be the supporters next. Just because he's not a glazer, doesn't mean he's not a twat

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