Person: Raphael Honigstein

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Manchester United can learn from another Red playbook

For an idea of how Jose Mourinho got it so wrong at Old Trafford and what Manchester United now need to get right, a good place to begin is with the first press conference the last manager he’d lose to held, writes Kieran Shannon.

Wed, 19 Dec, 2018

Thinking outside the box for TV punditry

For those of us who have kept a close eye, over the years, on the much-maligned industry of football punditry, this was a gratifying week. A week that almost certainly brought us closer to the day when a great football manager, a man such as Alex Ferguson perhaps, will be asked the key question we have waited for all our lives.

Sat, 05 Dec, 2015

Kop ready to be serenaded by ‘heavy metal’ football

Jurgen Klopp tells a story about playing a hypothetical game of tennis against a three-year-old girl. It would be no fun, he said, if he smashed the ball at her and won easily while she stood and watched. He’d rather play table-tennis against someone his own age and lose.

Tue, 06 Oct, 2015

Bayern rise above the bubble

Pep Guardiola was likened, by The Guardian columnist Raphael Honigstein, to Spanish clothing retailer Zara this week — a comparison first made by ex-Barcelona treasurer Xavier Sala-i-Martín.

Sat, 22 Feb, 2014