Construction industry gossip: Baking in Seville and chilling in Manchester

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2023-08-14T04:00:00

Baking in Seville, chilling in Manchester, and taking it slow on testing regimes

Men united

Building was recently offered the chance to chat to ex-Man United ace Gary Neville about his new St Michael’s development. So of course, I sent my Liverpool-supporting hack up north for the job. The two sat down for a beer in the Sir Ralph Abercromby, a cozy, old-school Manchester boozer. The interview went well enough but my hack could not help but be distracted by a bizarre series of framed images documenting a 2014 evening shared at the pub by singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and Red Nev’s former United colleague Wayne Rooney. It is a rich tableau featuring Sheeran playing guitar for a pensive-looking Rooney, Rooney pointing his finger in Sheeran’s face and the pair mugging for the camera together. The japes.

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