{"id":1111985,"date":"2019-10-22T18:20:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1111985"},"modified":"2019-10-22T18:20:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:20:22","slug":"man-utd-ed-woodward-phil-jones-argument-speculation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/man-utd-ed-woodward-phil-jones-argument-speculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd chief Ed Woodward clarifies on-screen Phil Jones argument speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has clarified his apparent on-screen spat with Phil Jones during their 2-0 defeat to West Ham in September.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The loss at the London Stadium was the first in what is now a six-game winless run (excluding penalty shootouts) for the Red Devils, who are currently languishing in 14th place in the Premier League with just 10 points so far.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What happened between Woodward and Jones? Five things to know&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Man Utd lost 2-0 at West Ham in September.<\/li>\n<li>Jones was sat behind Woodward and appeared to criticise his manager and teammates.<\/li>\n<li>It then looked as if Woodward turned round to silence him.<\/li>\n<li>But Woodward insists he wasn&#8217;t even talking to Jones and that the defender was questioning a refereeing decision.<\/li>\n<li>United haven&#8217;t won a game in 90 minutes since September 19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7399272\/embed\/v4\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jones was sat behind Woodward in the stands as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer&#8217;s men put in yet another laboured performance and initially appeared to be critical of his team-mates out on the pitch, with many on social media taking their guess at what the England defender might have said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Phil Jones being told to shut up by Ed Woodward is exactly what I needed today. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MUFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WHUMUN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WHUMUN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4S3dUzk9Ag\">pic.twitter.com\/4S3dUzk9Ag<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike (@Hello_ItsMike) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hello_ItsMike\/status\/1175778167866437633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It then looked as if Woodward turned round to silence Jones but the 47-year-old insists he wasn&#8217;t even talking to the defender and that, in any case, Jones was criticising a refereeing decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhil was talking about whether decisions were offside or not,\u201d Woodward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/premier-league\/manchester-united-ed-woodward-phil-jones-row-west-ham-ole-gunnar-solskjaer-epl-a9166131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a foul and I turned around to Rebecca Britain, our club secretary [and said]: \u2018Was that a yellow card on him? [Issa] Diop?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ballon d\u2019Or 2019 Nominees Ranked From Worst to Best\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lzi7Ke-Fcgg?start=113&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jones himself has been out injured since United&#8217;s League Cup clash with Rochdale at the end of September and only made the substitutes&#8217; bench for the 1-1 draw with Liverpool on Sunday thanks to Axel Tuanzebe picking up an injury in the warm-up.<\/p>\n<p>United travel to Partizan Belgrade in the Europa League on Thursday before an away tie at Norwich City on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has clarified his apparent on-screen spat with Phil Jones during their 2-0 defeat to West Ham in September. 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