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Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of Britain's richest men, is in the running to buy Man Utd from the Glazers; Sky Sports pundit Neville says INEOS owner "will want to do right thing by the club"; bids are to be made by mid-February with a possible decision in March. Gary Neville has outlined the priorities for any new potential owner of Manchester United, with winning football, fan experience, facilities investment and debt-free operations at the top of his list. The Glazer family, United's current owners, announced in November they are willing to listen to offers for the club after a 17-year reign dominated by fan protests, debt and declining on-pitch performance.Former United captain and Sky Sports pundit Neville welcomes Ratcliffe's interest and sketched out what he called a "manifesto" for...

Former Crawley manager John Yems has been banned from football for 18 months for multiple breaches of the FA's rule relating to discriminatory comments; Yems admitted one charge and an independent panel found 11 others to be proven - yet concluded he is not a "conscious racist" Tony Burnett, the chief executive of Kick It Out, says it is "utterly bizarre" that an FA-appointed independent panel accepted that John Yems was not a "conscious racist" despite revealing a string of offensive racial remarks made by the former Crawley Town manager. The FA pushed for a two-year suspension, but the panel agreed with Yems' solicitors that he was not a racist and did not "intend to make racist remarks". The 63 year old was charged after he made 16 alleged comments which "included a reference t...