S9 E16: Patreon mailbag - October international break

In this Patreon mailbag episode, hosts Harry Robinson and Jack Tait talk themes such as:

• The future of MUFC as the Qatari bid to buy the club withdraws
• Will the injury time win against Brentford kick start United's season?
• How would we sum up the last 10 years at Old Trafford?
• What is the club's greatest achievement and worst moment in the last decade?
• What one question would you ask our last six managers if you could sit in a room with them, with no NDAs and a truth serum?
• What we've made of Ange Postecoglu at Spurs?

And much, much more, including Harry's upcoming book, The Men Who Made Manchester United, out on MONDAY! If you've enjoyed the podcast over the last couple of years, buying this is the best way you can support the show.

The Men Who Made Manchester United is the fascinating, oft-forgotten story of how youth, courage and success came to define England's biggest football club before Busby, Best, Charlton, Ferguson, Cantona, Beckham or Ronaldo. Read and you will discover:

• How Manchester United got its name and its colours via a steak-munching tongue-out St. Bernard dog, a knocked-out cycling accountant and a poisoned beer crisis
• The in-depth story of United’s first successful team - two-time champions (1908, 1911) and FA Cup winners (1909) - including their new European tour, on which they were chased out of Budapest by stone-throwing hooligans
• The inspiration and planning behind United’s move to their iconic Old Trafford stadium
• The lives, characters and motivations of United’s first great manager, player and captain
• Why, how and when the club’s world-famous Academy was set up
• How the founding and survival of the Professional Footballers’ Association was defined by Manchester United’s ‘outcast’ stars
• How Matt Busby was set up for success by the determined, two-steps-at-a-time football fanatic Walter Crickmer, who almost single-handedly dragged United through a six-year global war.
• How trade unionism, industrialisation, the railways, public school masculinity, European nationalism and feminism frames the early story of English football and Manchester United.
• The untold early histories of rivalries with Manchester City, Liverpool and Leeds United.

You can pre-order now on Amazon, Waterstones and elsewhere.

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