This is, it seems, a Marcus Rashford moment. The most celebrated home-grown member of the most historic of teams finds himself out of the squad. From one pinnacle of UK sport, it’s the same in another.
And, as with Rashford, Colin Turkington’s departure from West Surrey Racing and the British Touring Car Championship is strongly linked to money – or lack of it. In one case, it was down to Manchester United’s cost-slashing American ownership and a player’s inability to adapt to the dysfunctional regime that inevitably followed; in another, it’s West Surrey Racing’s increasingly strangled commercial support.
