Written on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 by Dale O'Donnell in Opinion, Players, Transfer News
Listening to people try excuse Wayne Rooney’s second transfer request has left many fans baffled. Two in the space of three years is just clumsy and more should be expected of a player that earns a reported £300k per week at Manchester United. It looks likely that he will leave this summer, but a few…
Written on Monday, May 20, 2013 by Dale O'Donnell in News, Players
It might be the end of an era at Old Trafford following the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson but Robin van Persie is eyeing-up the start of a new one under David Moyes. Van Persie had grown increasingly frustrated at his failure to add to the FA Cup he won with Arsenal in 2005, therefore…
Written on Thursday, May 16, 2013 by Dale O'Donnell in News, Players
Rio Ferdinand insists everybody at Manchester United will need to prove themselves under new manager David Moyes – no matter who they are or what they have achieved. Ferdinand retired from international football on Wednesday to focus on his United career, but understands with Sir Alex Ferguson’s reign ending on Sunday, nothing is guaranteed. Every…
Written on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 by Dale O'Donnell in News, Players, Youths
Michael Carrick was named Manchester United player of the year, as voted for by the players, taking over form Antonio Valencia. Robin van Persie won the Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year award. He spoke about playing on as long as possible like Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes. Van Persie won goal of the…
Written on Saturday, May 4, 2013 by Paul Rowles in Opinion, Players
Last season saw our Ecuadorian full-back destroyer of the time Antonio Valencia scoop up all the major accolades at our end of season party. His clean sweeping of the awards was thoroughly deserved as he tore apart left-back after left-back in what was a stunning period of form. The reward for his efforts was the…
Written on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 by Paul Rowles in Opinion, Players
This time last year, as Tom Cleverley was watching from the bench as Paul Scholes was rolling back the years, we were hoping that we would not be asking this question. Cleverley was just getting himself back into the first-team picture after a crude tackle from Kevin Davies virtually ended his season, a season on…
Written on Monday, April 29, 2013 by Dale O'Donnell in News, Players
Patrice Evra believes Robin van Persie’s status as Premier League title winner proves he made the right decision to quit Arsenal for Manchester United. Arsene Wenger reckons United would have won their 20th league title last year, had QPR not bottled it after hearing they would not be relegated to concede two late goals against City. However yesterday softened…
Written on Sunday, April 28, 2013 by Dale O'Donnell in News, Players
Robin van Persie has reflected on winning the Premier League title with Manchester United. The Ducthman had just one FA Cup to his name when he joined from Arsenal last summer but has scored 24 goals in the league to help secure the club’s 20th league triumph. Before Arsenal, however, the 29-year-old won the UEFA…
Written on Thursday, April 25, 2013 by Dale O'Donnell in For the laugh, Players
The squad had their night out this week after securing Manchester United’s twentieth league title. Following the 3-0 win over Aston Villa they hit the town where Jagerbombs went down better than ever. Danny Welbeck even stood up and gave us a singsong. It’s always nice to see the lads singing the chants we belt…
Written on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 by Dale O'Donnell in News, Players
Like the rest of us, Michael Carrick has run out of words to describe the achievements of Ryan Giggs. The Manchester United legend has now won as many league titles as Arsenal have in their entire history. At 39, Giggs has 13 league titles to his name following last night’s win over Aston Villa at Old…
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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