Glaziers at the Kassam

But they're not replacing the broken windows in the Quadrangle. In fact Coventry City are to face United in a pre-season friendly up Minchery Farm on Wednesday July 31st, presumably in the annual Oxon Benevolent Trophy, or Bill Halsey Cup Final or whatever it's called. No details have been released about the club's other pre-season games yet, although there has been a hint, from a source that could loosely be described as unreliable, that the Us will be visiting foreign climes, and we don't mean Scotland again.

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United are, apparently, to revamp their scouting system. Chief Scout Jack Casley, United's first ever professional footballer back in the days when it was played in black and white, has retired at the age of 75, although he will still be helping the club look at local youngsters. It has been alleged that the club has made a somewhat derisory offer of a meal to honour Jack's 42 years of scouting for United, but this might be more of a PR gaffe than anything malicious.