Rupert Murdoch’s Manchester United? How BSkyB nearly bought the Red Devils

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Twenty years ago, on a wave of TV money and digital fear, Sky tried to buy the world’s biggest club. Gary Parkinson recalls a world of shares, shocks and resent

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