The finer arts of lip reading are a little lost on me, so I was grabbed by a comment on MailOnline a couple of weeks ago. It came from Jeremy Freeman and he has credibility in that field — he said he was 97 per cent confident Jude Bellingham called Mason Greenwood a ‘rapist’ during Real Madrid’s win at Getafe earlier this month.
An interesting number, that one. It is rather precise and it does make you tangentially curious about where the increments lie. How much is the R worth? And the P? How much of the missing three per cent is attributed to not quite detecting the T? But then again, Freeman mentioned context and context counted in his reasoning.
We all know the Greenwood context, of course. You know it. I know it. Sir Jim Ratcliffe knows it. Away with the fairies and suckling themselves fat on someone else’s cash, the Glazers know it too.
Everyone knows Greenwood was charged with attempted rape and everyone knows the case collapsed when key witnesses withdrew. We therefore know he is innocent within the definitions of law and we also know public opinion operates with fewer limitations, because by now most of us know about those horrific recordings.
If the lip-readers are right, we can assume Bellingham is across the gist of it. Did he call Greenwood a rapist in that game? I don’t have the skills to go as high as 97 per cent on that one, but I would safely enter the bidding at 100 if I had to predict how crowds over here will chant if Greenwood shows face at Manchester United again.
That’s a sure thing. It’s the six-letter stench that will follow him to every game and every ground. It will cling to United like a green cloud, surrounded by flies. And being a smart man, Ratcliffe is well aware of that, which is why I was a
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