Written on Thursday, March 7, 2013 by Dale O'Donnell in News, Other Football
Former Brazil striker Ronaldo was delighted to see his former club Real Madrid eliminate Manchester United from the Champions League on Tuesday night. He has hit back at Sir Alex Ferguson, who refereed to his weight in the build-up to the game. During Monday’s press conference Ferguson was asked to compare the Brazilian Ronaldo [Luis…
Written on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Dale O'Donnell in Other Football, Premier League
The decline of the Premier League is a hot topic at the moment with a high possibility of there being no English clubs in the last sixteen of the Champions League for the first time since 1998. This season’s top two, Manchester United and City, were knocked out in the group stages and qualified for…
Written on Thursday, February 16, 2012 by Guest Writer in Other Football
It feels as though, every week, the call for technology in football grows tenfold, with yet another incident of an ‘unacceptable’ mistake being made by one of the many over publicised officials. Yet many don’t allow themselves to stop and think of the consequences to the worlds most popular and widespread sport, should technology be…
Written on Friday, January 20, 2012 by Guest Writer in Other Football, Youths
Loyalty is something we don’t often see any more. The likes of Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, and Javier Zanetti unfortunately look like the last of their kind. Football has been transformed from a game kids dream of turning professional in and playing because it brought them joy into nothing but a business where money is…
Written on Thursday, December 1, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Other Football
Edwin van der Sar, Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Luis Nani and Wayne Rooney have all been named in a 55-man shortlist for the Fifa Fifpro World XI 2011, which includes 22 nominees from Spain’s Primera Liga – mainly coming from Barcelona and Real Madrid. Fifpro is the worldwide representative organization for all professional players…
Written on Sunday, October 30, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Other Football
Expectations were high when Ole Gunnar Solskjær returned to Molde after a 15-year exile in Manchester – this time to take the manager’s reins. But very few dared even dream that Ole would land the title in his first season in charge. Last season Molde finished 11th in a league of only 16 teams. With…
Written on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Other Football
‘Kick Racism out of Football’ is one of the longest running campaigns supported across the game, with thousands of players, coaches and fans taking part in events throughout the many seasons. And yet in the last couple of weeks, a few high profile incidents have occurred that have made us all question the state of…
Caution! This is our attempt to get the transfer market off your mind for a few minutes. If footballers were fast cars, and not only addicted to them, what car would they be? Lionel Messi would be the Renault-Red Bull Formula 1 racing car. Simply the best, but as proven in the last Copa America,…
Written on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 by Pharaohnough in Other Football
Owen Hargreaves is using social media to gather interest from other football clubs after being released by Manchester United in May, 2011. In 2007, Hargreaves joined Manchester United from Bayern Munich for a fee of around £17 million. The Canadian born England international signed a four-year contract with United and made an incredible impact in his…
Written on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 by Pharaohnough in Other Football, Youths
It looks like Sir Alex Ferguson will be giving a number of Manchester United’s young prospects a good run next season after discovering Barcelona hold a huge advantage over English clubs – a much stronger youth system. The La Liga champions won their fourth European Cup Saturday night at the expense of Manchester United, for…
Stretty News – Manchester United blog was launched in the summer of 2010; on the back of coming second in the league just a point behind Chelsea. As you can imagine, we had a lot to say at the time but don’t get us wrong, we still do. Read more..
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