Executive Director / Co-Director @abbeytheatre National Theatre of Ireland. All views my own...I think, although I am open to correction. Onwards
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Mark O’Brien retweeted
If I were Michael Carrick, I’d walk into training with my coaching staff and make one thing crystal clear: we’re starting from scratch. Nobody is guaranteed a place in the starting XI, regardless of reputation, wages or past achievements. Only those willing to run, fight and give everything for the badge deserve to play. If that means fielding the U18s against Chelsea on Saturday, so be it. Enough of rewarding mediocrity.
Mark O’Brien retweeted
If anyone has a paper copy of today's Guardian with my beautiful Dad in it, we didn't manage to get hold of one today and would love if someone could save one for us!!!
Mark O’Brien retweeted
Am hearing the sad sad news that
Donal Lunny has passed on.
What music and legacy he leaves.
Alchemy in motion.
Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann
Mark O’Brien retweeted
Animals, at the Abbey Theatre, is delightfully wacky and very irreverent. Very very irreverent🤣
Worth the 400km round trip yesterday, happy to recommend it.
And it’s three hours long, so you definitely get bang for your buck.
You have till November 7 to see it.
Mark O’Brien retweeted
Time for action. United fans around the world let’s find a mechanism where every fan who can puts in from €5 to €1000 and we buy the club off the vampires. Max you can invest is €1000.
There are millions of us #MUFC
#ManchesterUnited #notjoking
What do you think? Pass it on
Mark O’Brien retweeted
I’ll be lambasted for pointing this out, but #MUFC sold its soul when our greatest manager ever was still in charge. He was the first with the, ‘Theres no value in the market’ nonsense. I have so many questions about the £30m he’s been paid and his thirteen year silence.
Mark O’Brien retweeted
Why would you keep a Sporting Director that has hired and fired managers every season with no sign of progress and only regression? It does not make any sense.
Mark O’Brien retweeted
If Carrick pays for this with his job and not Wilcox then it’s a disgrace. Carrick got Utd in to the Champions League, Wilcox made sure we got knocked out of it.
Mark O’Brien retweeted
Remember when United just had to play four at the back and everything would be fixed?
Mark O’Brien retweeted
A great evening with a few pints in Cleary’s and watching Animals in the Abbey during the week. The level of surrealism is off the charts and if you’re easily offended it definitely isn’t for you.
Mark O’Brien retweeted
🚨 A new Etihad Stadium attendance record for Manchester City today, with 600,817 packed in for the game against Ipswich.
Bringing in an estimated £320m in new club revenue 🤯
Mark O’Brien retweeted
This Man Utd team has been dead since the return of Rashford. The excitement among the players is gone — the energy and the vibes are gone — because of Rashford.
When I said this some months ago, Rashford's stans thought I was hating on him. Now players like Amad and Martinez are showing it too, because Rashford is done as a player for Man Utd, but the incompetent board and Carrick won't see it.
Carrick even said Rashford is like a new signing.
Mark O’Brien retweeted
About 200 industry figures have written to the prime minister calling for urgent action to address the economics of touring theatre.
Read more 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/theatre-…
Mark O’Brien retweeted
He gets it, he understands the disastrous ongoing cycle and he’s speaking out against it all.
"As a club, I expect more... I’m not gonna close my mouth, we need to have more ambition.” 👀
Lisandro Martínez opens up to @pschmeichel1 about Manchester United's struggles 👇
Mark O’Brien retweeted
★★★★ Review: Animals – Inventive, hilarious staging of the short stories of Blindboy Boatclub. ( @AbbeyTheatre)
Read our full review 👇 thestage.co.uk/reviews/anima…
Mark O’Brien retweeted
As of right now, I don’t really care about giving a bit of stick to rival clubs like Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea etc.
Let’s be honest no rival fans of Liverpool cared that they lost on Sunday, that’s what Man City have done, they’ve sucked every bit of joy and intrigue when it comes to the league this season, until they’re fairly punished then everyone else can move on.
It’s an awful look for the league right now.
Mark O’Brien retweeted
Look at Manchester United’s recruitment under every manager since Sir Alex Ferguson:
Moyes: Fellaini, Mata.
Van Gaal: Di María, Falcao, Blind, Herrera, Shaw, Martial, Depay, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger, Darmian.
Mourinho: Pogba, Ibrahimović, Lukaku, Mkhitaryan, Bailly, Lindelöf, Matić, Fred, Dalot, Sánchez.
Ole: Maguire, Wan-Bissaka, Bruno, Ronaldo, Sancho, Varane, Van de Beek, Dan James.
Rangnick: No permanent first-team signings.
Ten Hag: Antony, Casemiro, Martínez, Eriksen, Malacia, Onana, Højlund, Mount, De Ligt, Mazraoui, Yoro, Zirkzee, Ugarte.
AMORIM: Cunha, Mbeumo, Šeško, Lammens, Dorgu, Diego León.
Carrick: Tielemans, Baleba, Andrey Santos, Karl Darlow
Now look at the players actually showing the quality, hunger and mentality expected at Manchester United. Cunha, Mbeumo and Lammens have been among the standouts, while Šeško has shown his potential. These are players brought in during AMORIM’S tenure.
We sacked the manager who was building the foundation, only to watch someone else benefit from his recruitment. Manchester United would be in a far better position today if Ruben Amorim were still in charge.
Most of you owe that man a massive apology.