Erik ten Hag got his facts wrong during Manchester United's press conference

At the Ineos office in Knightsbridge in February, Sir Jim Ratcliffe spoke of Manchester United requiring a stadium "befitting one of the biggest clubs in the world".

You can imagine what he thinks of journalists filing copy from a stationary minibus at the training complex of one of the biggest clubs in the world.

It is a first-world problem and football journalists generate about as much sympathy as the imprisoned. But image matters to Ratcliffe and this is not an image befitting one of the biggest clubs in the world.

Journalists were requested to park by Carrington riding centre less than an hour before Erik ten Hag's press conference started. A shuttle bus would ferry us down Birch Road to the training complex. The majority walked.

Those of us present on the upper floor of the Jimmy Murphy Centre were then informed we would have to exit the room as soon as the press conference ended. The room is used for interviews and activities with the Manchester United Foundation.

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Manchester City have a dedicated press conference theatre and a working press room at the City Football Academy. United's press room in the main building is seldom used for press activities these days.

So there we were, sat in a minibus parked next to the outdoor pitch children play on during school holidays, without a driver, filing copy by connecting to the WiFi on our phones from the United manager at the United training ground.

This was more National League than Premier League. The car park at United's training complex is so small we often have to park on the grass bank by the Carrington Lagoon. A