Also writing for The Telegraph, he said that "like putting a plaster on a deep wound", short jail terms "might hide the problem temporarily", but they "don't heal it". Pia Sinha, chief executive ...

"Over the years, Man United has looked like it's a plaster on a gaping wound," he said. "It doesn't work. They haven't got the finances, they have to get their house in order, they have to be a ...

There is also a point where the plausible-sounding rhetorical promise to end “sticking-plaster politics” risks being undone by a messy reality, in which wounds often need to be meticulously cleaned ...