Written on Monday, November 28, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Rant
When Manchester United were a goal ahead against Newcastle during the weekend, a shockingly poor decision robbed us the match and put the Old Trafford faithful into uproar. Rio Ferdinand made a brilliant challenge on Ben Arfa inside the box only for the linesman John Flynn to flag for a penalty, despite the referee being in…
Written on Monday, November 21, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Rant
It’s an old adage but currently it is one which all we Manchester United fans must abide by because it’s true: A win is a win. There is a lot of criticism floating around of late that our performances are seriously lacking in a number of departments. This criticism is all fair; God knows I…
Written on Saturday, November 5, 2011 by Guest Writer in Rant
The 2011/12 season is, at the time of writing, ten games old. We gave just passed the quarter way point and we are still at an early stage. However, Manchester United have what may appear to be an advantage over the other pretenders to our thrown. This advantage is quite simply that we have now…
The fascinating thing about Alex Ferguson’s remarks about football and television is that here is a manager that actually remembers football in the days before television. While most managers today were actually consumed while their mom and dad were making out in front of a telly. Ferguson of course was not ranting about the telly…
Written on Saturday, October 1, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Players, Rant
In the year 2011, Manchester United have only started the same back 4 in the Premier League on 3 separate occasions, in 26 games. They were: February/March: Man City (h), Wigan Athletic (a) and Chelsea (a) – O’Shea, Smalling, Vidic, Evra April: Fulham (h) and Newcastle (a) – O’Shea, Smalling, Vidic, Evra August: Tottenham Hotspur…
Written on Saturday, October 1, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Players, Rant
Twitter, a game of opinions right? Well it seems in some cases you are only have a choice of two. Love or hate. After United’s draw with Basle Tuesday night, a game that at 2-0 the Reds should have cruised home, fans hit Twitter to vent their anger/frustrations/thoughts and a few names cropped up. Firstly…
Written on Monday, September 26, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Rant, Stats
The electrifying start made by Manchester United this season has been down to many things; the form of the unstoppable Wayne Rooney, the creativity of Nani and Ashley Young, the stubbornness of our second string back four, however I believe the job our two central midfielders have done has been essential to our early season…
Written on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 by Nathan Thomas in Players, Rant
Okay I know what you are thinking, how could anybody ‘deserve better’ than Manchester United? Well that’s not quite what I mean but with yet another confident goalscoring performance from Michael Owen in the League Cup victory over Leeds are we devaluing one of the greatest English forwards ever? Now admittedly the opposition was a poor Leeds…
There were a few moments on Sunday afternoon against Chelsea where you’d have found me shouting, screaming and swearing at the telly when we just kept giving the ball away. Anderson was the main culprit – you’d think he was playing in blue the number of times the ball miraculously got hoofed to a Chelsea…
It’s been a long time since I was last here, typing for Stretty News – nearly three months, in fact. Since then, we’ve seen the transfer window close, the Premier League season begin, and this week sees the start of the Champions League. So what’s happened in the last three months then? Well, in actual fact,…
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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