The opening page of incoming investor Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s book on the success of his petrochemicals firm Ineos may not make for welcome reading by Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes.
Introducing Grit, Rigour & Humour: The Ineos Story, Ratcliffe talks of his travels and remembers a trip around the Pacific during which he ‘felt the ground tremble every time a Cook Islander smashed into another in a local rugby match’, adding that one player was ‘carted off in the back of a pick-up with a broken leg’.
Ratcliffe, a lifelong United fan, then pointedly notes that it was ‘a far cry from Bruno Fernandes clutching his untouched face in the Liverpool debacle recently’, presumably referring to the skipper’s embarrassing play-acting during March’s 7-0 Anfield trouncing.