Dickinson, ex-Times & Cambridge University, clearly has a very close relationship with The Rat He was handpicked to chronicle Ratty's glorious first season, & given special place in the Directors Box home+away from which to observe the magic Alas, still we await its publication

The Rat, of course, *claims* to have been in the Nou Camp in May '99 No evidence of this has ever surfaced, and his bland, nothing description of the final, in his first interview on Utd's website was risible 🤡 Utd winning the Treble was, er, like watching City without Haaland

But even more suspicious was the blatant crowbarring in of The Rat by @Dickinsonwriter in his 2022 book on 1999 For reasons completely unknown (certainly with no correlation to anything in the text), we're supposed to believe The Rat was a big help for a book about the Treble 🤡

One of the most suspicious aspects of The Rat's back story is his claim to support Utd This 'fact' doesn't seem to have been mentioned anywhere, ever, until an Evening Standard article in July 2015 opened with it, despite it being totally irrelevant 👇 xitter.cf/1990sUtd/status/211477…

BREAKING NEWS: Ineos have sacked Michael Carrick as manager, and appointed Michael Carrick as interim manager

THOSE WERE THE DAYS May '94 Robbo's last game, Fred the Red's 1st game (Utd said he'd be bigger than Postman Pat!) Phil Neal insisted Cov give United guard of honour: “They deserve nothing but our respect. They are far and away the best, and our place is to acknowledge that”

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