Written on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Champions League, Match Previews
Competition: Champions League Venue: Estádio da Luz Time: 19:45 Manchester United have a decent record against Benfica in this competition, having won six of our seven previous meetings with the Primeira Liga runners up. Ferguson’s men will attack the Encarnados’ back four, who conceded at least two goals in each of their last five Champions…
Written on Sunday, September 4, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Champions League
On the 2nd of September, UEFA published the squad lists for each club that will be competing in the Champions League group stages, this season. Among the clubs listed, Manchester United named 34 players. Information on the teams United will face in Group C (Benfica, Basel and Otelul Galati). Goalkeepers: David De Gea, Tomasz Kuszczak, Anders…
Written on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell 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, June 7, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in News
This is the third of Stretty News’ three part series on the United Season. Part One can be found here and Part Two here. In February, Gary Neville, who hadn’t been able to fully recover from nagging injuries sufficiently to make an impact with the club, called it a career. The former captain had only…
Written on Sunday, June 5, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in News
If Sir Alex Ferguson were a boy scout, he would have earned his firefighting badge several times over in the 2010-11 season. The FA doesn’t keep stats for such things but I’d be willing to wager a few bob that Fergie spent more time attempting to put out fires than he did preparing the Red…
Written on Friday, June 3, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in News, Players
Last season’s top goalscorer Dimitar Berbatov (20 goals) insists he will be at United for another year, putting speculation about a move away from Old Trafford to bed. The former Bulgaria captain had an interview with 24 Chassa daily this week and confirmed he is determined to fight for his place at Manchester United. Berba’s…
Written on Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in News
Park Ji-Sung will follow Michael Owen’s footsteps and extend his contract with Manchester United this summer, according to The Telegraph. The South-Korean midfielder signed for Manchester United from Dutch side PSV Eindhoven in July 2005, for a fee of around £4million. Since joining, he has become favorite with the fans mainly because of his work…
Written on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Legends
For Ronen (a regular StrettyNews.com contributor) it was an October evening in 1997. Manchester United were playing Feyenoord in the Champions League at Old Trafford at a time when Dutch teams are very much part of the competition. Cantona had retired a few months earlier. Paul Scholes, a rotation striker in his early years, not…
Written on Saturday, May 28, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Champions League
StrettyNews.com contributor Ronen Dorfan has written another fantastic article, this time it’s about our opposition’s best player, Leo Messi. It is quite natural to wonder if modern football can actually produce a superstar of the magnitude of Pele, Cruyff, Maradona or Puskas. We will not have a Cruyff who will transform an anonymous club from…
Written on Saturday, May 28, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Champions League
Manchester United captain, Nemanja Vidic, feels a lot better now that he has removed the monkey from his back by lifting the Premier League trophy last week – the club’s record-breaking nineteenth time. Before the season began in September Ferguson gave Vidic the captain’s armband when he decided to remove it from now-retired Gary Neville….
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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