"When old soldiers die, new ones come in," Erik ten Hag said. The creaking warhorses Raphael Varane and Jonny Evans are out of contract in under three months.
22.03.2024 - 12:25 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A Manchester City fan daubed his neighbours' garden fence with a vile Munich air disaster jibe after learning they supported Manchester United, a court heard.
Michael Hatton became involved in a bitter feud with his neighbours in the Hollins area of Oldham. The 63-year-old had fallen out with the victims - a man and his girlfriend - over a wooden fence he had put up between their front gardens, a court was told.
As tensions escalated, Hatton painted '58' - in reference to the 1958 Munich air crash which killed eight Busby Babes - onto the fence. He also daubed the words 'City rule OK, 'United are s***' and 'f*** off' with paint.
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In another incident, when the couple were accused of playing loud music late at night, Hatton, a self-employed painter and decorator who lives with his wife, got out his electric drill at 5.45am the following morning and affixed 27 screws to the fence. He shouted: "You are going to get this every morning you f****** scum."
He was also heard shouting 'sl**' and 'I hope that lady dies' when the couple had grandchildren over to visit, Tameside Magistrates' Court was told. In a statement, the male victim, whose house is currently in the process of being sold, said he and his partner had been forced to 'live in hell'.
He said: "Michael has caused us to live in hell for the last four years. We are terrified of it escalating. We have never retaliated. We desperately want to move so that we do not have to live in fear.
"He wrote offensive remarks which obviously put people off purchasing the house. We are worried about the children getting hurt.
"We feel that this will only end once we have moved.
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