Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood says Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said on Twitter that his Tweet on buying Manchester United was a “long-running joke”.
“Well, he’s now come out with another one today and said, ‘no, this is a long-running joke on Twitter, I’m not buying any sports teams’.
“But he does say though, a second one, ‘though if there were any team, it would be Man U. They were my favourite team as a kid’.
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