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RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: The more Manchester United flip and flop on Mason Greenwood, the more they need to convince us they have the capacity and integrity to make the right call

The audio clip that many of us will have heard by now runs for 51 seconds. It’s graphic, aggressive, upsetting. Devastating, actually. Then you have the images - the young woman’s bruises to her arms and legs, her bleeding lip, the caption that makes a claim about who did it.

We don’t know for certain who we are hearing, of course, but we do know it is the stench that has followed Mason Greenwood for 18 months. It followed him before the Crown Prosecution Service dropped their case against him in February, it has followed him since, and it could follow him for the next two years of his contract, too.