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Rhys Noah
All football coverage filed by Rhys Noah for Nisty Football.

Silenced? Martínez's Apology Smells Like a Club in Damage Control, and INEOS Has Questions to Answer
Players do not walk back the most honest interview of their season by accident. The club got to him.

THE CITY THREAT: HAS MANCHESTER CITY BECOME TOO POWERFUL FOR FOOTBALL?
A football regulation is not a suggestion. A financial rule is not a rule only for clubs without powerful friend or do football’s rules apply equally when the club involved has enormously powerful owners and extraordinary political and economic connections?

EXCLUSIVE: THE CARRICK FORMULA — WHY MANCHESTER UNITED’S NEXT CHAPTER MAY DEMAND A LITTLE MORE ‘FERGUSON’
There is a difference between managing Manchester United and managing Manchester United successfully.

"I WON FAIRLY AND CLEANLY" MOURINHO'S WORDS NOW HAUNT THE ETIHAD
They didn't just play the game. They asked everyone else to believe they were playing it straight while, breaking almost every rule that kept the competition honest.

ARSENAL WASN’T BORN IN NORTH LONDON SO WHY DOES NORTH LONDON FEEL LIKE THEIRS?
Today, Arsenal and Tottenham supporters can debate trophies, managers, players and league positions endlessly. But underneath all of that sits an older argument: Who truly belongs to North London?

UNITED DON’T RUN. THEY DON’T WIN. SO WHAT EXACTLY IS CARRICK’S PLAN?
Manchester United rank near the bottom of the Premier League for sprints and high-speed running. But is that a deliberate tactical choice or evidence that Carrick’s system is failing to demand enough from his players?

THE INEOS PATTERN: Nine years. Three clubs. One broken method.
INEOS came to Old Trafford promising the end of Manchester United's chaos era but INEOS hasn't ended anyone's chaos. It is the chaos — just with better PR and a bigger budget.

Carrick Says His Future Is ‘Not on the Radar’ But Manchester United Need Answers
And although he insists his job security is irrelevant to his immediate thinking, the simplest answer to managerial pressure remains the same: RESULTS.

VAR DIDN’T GET IT WRONG. THE OFFICIALS DID.
Coaches and players did not go through the hard work on the training pitch during the week to be undone by the incompetence of people who shouldn’t be near a football game calling themselves officials.

Smiling More, Arriving Earlier, Singing Again: Inside Marcus Rashford’s Surprising Manchester United Return
The Marcus Rashford Manchester United are getting back is not quite the same player who walked away.