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@AndyMitten @AndyMitten Love the magazine. We have to remember those days and what happened afterwards. It’s hard but have to trust things will improve.

United We Stand first hit the streets outside Old Trafford 36 years ago today. Manchester United were 10th in the table. Just like today.

@Bloch_ortho Great summary Benjamin. Same with us.

I can only talk from an orthopaedic standpoint & particularly from hip & knee surgery as that’s my area. Referrals are going up. Locally MSK triage services seem overwhelmed; once patients finally get through and are referred on there is a 16w wait for an appointment with us.

@WayneSBarton Take care @WayneSBarton 🙏

My dad passed away this morning. I’m grateful he was around to meet his granddaughter.

@EdinburghKnee @imperialcollege Great work Chloe @EdinburghKnee

Absolutely delighted to be made Visiting Professor at @imperialcollege Department of Mechanical Engineering. All that finite element stuff is finally paying off!! Thanks to Jonathan Jeffers, Max Munford, Alex Liddle, OSSTEC & my Edinburgh mentor Pankaj Pankaj #orthotwitter

@SYorksOrthoRegs @jamestoml1 Well done @jamestoml1

Huge Congrats @jamestoml1, well deserved! You will be fantastic 👏

@WayneSBarton @ManUtd Bit like many relationships. I still love them but don’t particularly like them right now.

For the love, not the glory Still love you @ManUtd

@fayez_almari @AnilDhadwal_ @CavendishHip Been a pleasure for us too @fayez_almari thanks for your hard work this year.

Operating on some of the most difficult & interesting cases has been an absolute pleasure. If you're looking for a revision arthroplasty fellowship with some amazing people (and surgeons!) then I can't recommend the @CavendishHip revision arthroplasty fellowship enough!

Sadly all good things must come to an end... The last 12 months have been thoroughly enjoyable, & I can honestly say will shape me as a surgeon going forwards. Massive thanks to my mentors @drandyg72 @simonbuckley4 TimHarrison @theartfu1doctor MikePetrie SaifSalih @AnilDhadwal_

@WayneSBarton Couple of last minutes in 4-3 wins. Liverpool last year and City Micheal Owen

What’s the best United goal you’ve ever seen live?

@drsarahtennant @goldstone_tony So true. Colleague sent me a PowerPoint of a presentation he did 30 years ago. Almost the same message as one I did last week!

@anilgambhir9 @vngibbs @BritishHip Awesome. Winning again. Fantastic work @vngibbs @BritishHip

BHS win at the NOA awards! Congratulations to @vngibbs and the C&D team. @BritishHip

@jaggstalkssport Another 4-3. The city game 2009 Tevez return and with Owen’s goal in the 96th minute

Going by history - nothing tops '68, maybe '99 Nou Camp comes close to being quintessentially United? In my lifetime - I'd have to say the 4-3 against Liverpool in the FA Cup, 23/24. In my 16-ish years of watching football regularly, it's the game that stands out as 'Yanited'

An excellent few days at #BHS25! Great Cavendish dinner! Looking forward to London in 2026!

@SYorksOrthoRegs Great session followed by really interesting stuff on tech from US surgeons.

Nice to see @simonbuckley4 hard at work! Relaxing on the sofa with a paper 📰

@WayneSBarton Sad news Wayne. Great books. Have always the reads. Keep up the great work.

So just over two years in my dream job came to an end today as I became one of the statistics you’ve been reading about in the press associated with United. For those two years I loved every day of being able to work at Old Trafford, I loved the immense privilege despite it being such a difficult time in our history, hoping that I could help from within to contribute something positive. I’m beyond proud of my work outside of United, the kind reviews of my books and perception of me as a writer. To be described as the pre-eminent writer on the club by Martin Edwards, to have Tony Whelan say I have ‘no peers when it comes to articulating the nature and essence of our magnificent football club’ are not tributes I use to be boastful, but are compliments I’m incredibly, incredibly proud of, as they represent something I’ve worked extremely hard for.  That outside reputation earned the trust of some of the club’s most beloved families, as well as that of the family of Tom Tyrrell, who entrusted me with his archive. I was able to use some of that to create some fascinating content for the club, including podcasts to mark the 66th anniversary of Munich and the 25th anniversary of the Treble, which were both very warmly received. I was also trusted to conduct a one-man investigation to discover the foundation date of the club, which I accomplished. The club did not know of this beforehand. It is one of the most important pieces of information in the club’s history and I’m very proud that it was my research and investigation which discovered it.  I am proud that I worked on the campaign that saw former players awarded winners’ medals in 2023. I also conceived a legacy project to record interviews with elder figures at Old Trafford for archival use for future generations, and worked on important in-house academy projects.  And I have immense pride that copies of my books have been given to young academy players, as well as sit inside the walls of Old Trafford on the director’s corridors.  To see these things with my own eyes has been an indulgence I cannot describe. Obviously, I am heartbroken that my contribution is no longer of value to the club I love. I understand that difficult decisions have to be made. I have seen very talented people leave their roles, and I have seen legendary figures who are drenched in the history of our club been told they too are now part of the past; a past which is, for me, the richest history in football, a past which these people remain a significant part of the tapestry and educational process for the future. They are indispensible; the cost of losing them far greater than financial. I read all the comments on social media from those on the outside, who speak about the necessity of these decisions. People make jokes and comments, but we are talking about people working for the club, mostly because they love the club. It’s the biggest club in the country, possibly the world, and every loss I’ve seen and experienced has been significant to the operations. Every loss has been felt.  These are real people, real lives, being affected - not because of the quality of their performance or contribution. They work incredibly hard and feel, like I have done, a sense of gratitude and privilege and a dream coming true. There are people having to deliver terrible news which wasn’t their decision to make. A football club is not a normal business. It is a community asset, serving different needs. It is it’s history.  Anyway. So today I leave the club I love, hoping that one day, they will need me again, and that I’ll be back, my tiny little cog in the big machine, my sense of grandoise not lost on me with the self-importance of this post.  I’m by no means an important loss, but it’s an important loss to me.

@theartfu1doctor @CambodiaCSC No braided wire in Cambodia either I see!

Good to find the old @CambodiaCSC uniform still fits, bringing some good old Sheffield Beads to deliver high local dose of Vanc into a hip - next item on the shopping list some flexible wire to make a nice chain!

@jonmikesav8 What rubbish. Club at fault for bloody rangers fans in there in first place surely?

We have complete and utter w***ers running the asylum.

February 6th 1958. 67 years ago. We remembered them then and we'll remember them now. Geoff Bent Roger Byrne Eddie Colman Duncan Edwards Mark Jones David Pegg Tommy Taylor Billy Whelan The Busby Babes. The flowers of English football. The flowers of Manchester.🌹

@BritishHip @tim_n_board @anilgambhir9 @SatishKutty7 @BOMSA_UK @bota_uk @BritOrthopaedic @baskonline A great listen. Some pearls of wisdom as well would expect from David

Latest @BritishHip Podcast series is Live! @tim_n_board interviews David Beverland See: bit.ly/3E92c4W @anilgambhir9 @SatishKutty7 @BOMSA_UK @bota_uk @BritOrthopaedic @baskonline

@goldstone_tony Tony. I asked for an on demand statement and they just sent email reiterating that they are still doing RPSS stuff. Is that right? I suspect not.

Yes after your trust has updated your pension record with the repair of the misallocated arrear email the BSA asking for an "on demand" PSS statement reflecting the updated pension record

@SnakePassRoad Came over about 0700. Little bits of ice but all fine. Lowest temp car recorded was -8 near Ladybower.

Temperatures very likely to have been as low as -10°C last night so expect there to be icy surfaces. How is everyone going on today with travel?