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Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Man Utd co-owner ‘must go’ says Muslim fan group
19 September 2026 Off

Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Man Utd co-owner ‘must go’ says Muslim fan group

By Total Football News

The Manchester United Muslim Supporters group says club co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe “must go” after he spoke out against immigration levels and said the country was “on the slide”.

Billionaire Ratcliffe, who is one of Britain’s richest people and founder of petrochemical giant Ineos, made the comments in an interview with the BBC on Saturday.

Ratcliffe said the UK was in decline because of a combination of high taxes and

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‘Be proud’, Sir Tom Courtenay tells Hull City before Wembley game
16 May 2026 Off

‘Be proud’, Sir Tom Courtenay tells Hull City before Wembley game

By Total Football News

Aged 18, Sir Tom left Hull, where he was born and raised, to study at University College London, before enrolling at the nearby Royal Academy of Performing Arts.

Today he lives in Putney, south-west London, but insists he has never forgotten his home city, where he still has family, including his sister.

“I have never tried to pretend I am anything other than a Hull lad,” said Sir Tom.

He

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Sir Bobby Robson: Ipswich update former manager’s image above club shop
13 January 2026 Off

Sir Bobby Robson: Ipswich update former manager’s image above club shop

By Total Football News

The company asked to update an image of former Ipswich Town manager Sir Bobby Robson above the club shop say it is an “absolute honour”.

Work has begun to remove the existing image installed in 2009 and replace it with one of Sir Bobby holding the Uefa Cup, which Town won in 1981 by beating Dutch club AZ Alkmaar 5-4 on aggregate in a two-leg final.

“We’ll be done by

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Manchester United: Ruben Amorim says he can’t bank on Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s three-year promise
17 October 2025 Off

Manchester United: Ruben Amorim says he can’t bank on Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s three-year promise

By Total Football News

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim thinks it is important Sir Jim Ratcliffe went public with his long-term thoughts – but says nothing is certain about tomorrow in football, let alone three years.

In an interview with The Times last week, Ratcliffe said it could take Amorim three years to make a significant impact at Old Trafford.

Coming in a period when Amorim’s future has been under scrutiny following

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Ineos: Tottenham file High Court proceedings against Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s company
13 June 2025 Off

Ineos: Tottenham file High Court proceedings against Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s company

By Total Football News

Tottenham have filed High Court proceedings against Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s company Ineos Automotive.

Court records show Spurs filed a commercial claim over a terminated sponsorship agreement, though no documents are available.

Ineos Automotive, a part of Ratcliffe’s conglomerate of Ineos businesses, agreed a five-year deal with Spurs in 2022 – before Ratcliffe bought a stake in United.

It meant that its Ineos Grenadier car became the London

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Manchester United: Sir Dave Brailsford to scale back involvement at Old Trafford
4 June 2025 Off

Manchester United: Sir Dave Brailsford to scale back involvement at Old Trafford

By Total Football News

Sir Dave Brailsford is to scale back his involvement with Manchester United.

While Brailsford will remain on the football club board, he will concentrate his energies in his wider role as director of sport at Ineos.

Brailsford has played an integral role in the overhaul at United since Sir Jim Ratcliffe bought a minority stake in the club in December 2023.

He was a leading figure in driving through the

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Women’s FA Cup final: Sir Jim Ratcliffe absence obscures the big issues at Man Utd
18 May 2025 Off

Women’s FA Cup final: Sir Jim Ratcliffe absence obscures the big issues at Man Utd

By Total Football News

Yet is it realistic to fight with Chelsea?

There was a lot of talk about the Champions League but United’s path to the lucrative main draw is fraught with hazards for Skinner’s side. Firstly, they must come through a semi-final and final just to make it through the second qualifying round. Inter Milan and Roma are big-name potential opponents – but Swedish side BK Hacken are also in the draw

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Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Man Utd co-owner’s wealth falls by £6.5bn
16 May 2025 Off

Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Man Utd co-owner’s wealth falls by £6.5bn

By Total Football News

Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has seen his wealth fall by £6.473bn – more than a quarter of his fortune – in the last year, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List.

The 72-year-old’s wealth has declined from £23.519bn to £17.046bn in the past 12 months.

He has slipped from fourth to seventh on the annual list of the UK’s 350 richest people.

Ratcliffe’s Ineos

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Manchester United: Sir Jim Ratcliffe says abuse would lead him to walk away
15 March 2025 Off

Manchester United: Sir Jim Ratcliffe says abuse would lead him to walk away

By Total Football News

“They can’t really come to a match, the Glazers. They’ve retreated into the shadows a bit now, so I’m getting all the stick.

“We bought in and I haven’t seen them since. It’s, ‘thank you, Jim, you’re doing a really good job’.

“At the moment, I don’t have security, I don’t have to walk around like that. But it would defeat the object, wouldn’t it? You couldn’t tolerate it at

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Sir Jim Ratcliffe interview: Man Utd co-owner says some players are ‘not good enough’ and ‘overpaid’
10 March 2025 Off

Sir Jim Ratcliffe interview: Man Utd co-owner says some players are ‘not good enough’ and ‘overpaid’

By Total Football News

When Ratcliffe and Ineos joined the Old Trafford hierarchy, many fans welcomed the arrival of a boyhood fan and billionaire to help restore the club’s former glories.

However, a year on, the relationship with some supporters has soured.

A mid-season rise in some ticket prices affecting under-16s and pensioners, and hundreds of redundancies are among the moves taken by the club which have attracted criticism, with cost-cutting measures including the

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