Written on Thursday, March 29, 2012 by Dale O'Donnell in Premier League, Rivals
Patrick Vieira told the BBC yesterday that Manchester United and other big clubs benefit from key refereeing decisions at home. Last week, however, he commented on how we must be desperate to bring Paul Scholes out of retirement without thinking about how Manchester City welcomed Carlos Tevez back with open arms after six embarrassing months of being…
Written on Friday, March 9, 2012 by Dale O'Donnell in Players, Rivals
Eric Cantona isn’t impressed with Mario Balotelli’s actions on the pitch because he believes they’re calculated for attention and are far too predictable. Every week we read ridiculous stories about Balotelli lurking the streets of Manchester and handing money out to homeless people. However, none of it is true but judging by his personality on the pitch,…
Written on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 by Dale O'Donnell in Players, Premier League
Ashley Young has warned City that Manchester United are going to fight until the end in attempt of retaining the Premier League crown. The winger also made it clear that he is determined to start every game now that he’s back fit. Young, who scored two after assisting Rooney in Sunday’s 3-1 win at White Hart Lane,…
Written on Monday, February 27, 2012 by Dale O'Donnell in Players, Premier League
After scoring his second goal since coming out of retirement, Paul Scholes spoke to MUTV and claimed Manchester United might need to win the rest of their fixtures in order to beat City in the title race. Paul Scholes, who has won nine titles in his outstanding career, believes the squad is prepared for the…
Written on Sunday, February 26, 2012 by Dale O'Donnell in Match Reports, Premier League
Manchester United managed to stick tight to City on top of the Premier League table, keeping the lead to a minimum of 2 points, thanks to an unconvincing 2-1 win over newly promoted Norwich. 1. Complacency has been our biggest enemy in recent months and is the consequence for getting us knocked out of various…
Written on Thursday, February 2, 2012 by Dale O'Donnell in Manchester United Youths, Players, Transfer News
Being a Manchester United fan during the January transfer market made some feel like they were children again. Sitting inside your house watching your friends have fun outside, through your window. We felt grounded and that’s pretty much been the case ever since the Glazers took over in 2005, with a few exceptions. However, on…
Written on Monday, January 16, 2012 by Guest Writer in Manchester United History
As a United fan, an injury crisis is expected, as it isn’t a United season, without something not going to plan… The ‘United Way’, has always been to call on our youth squad before going anywhere else, when we are having trouble with our starting eleven. This dates right back to Jimmy Murphy famously doing…
Written on Monday, January 9, 2012 by Guest Writer in FA Cup, Match Reports
The FA Cup third round brought together a mouth-watering fixture between the countries top two sides. Often such ties become dull tactical affairs brought on scale of the fixture. However, this was never likely to be dull, and true to form the match proved to be full of incident and as dramatic as we all…
Written on Saturday, January 7, 2012 by Dale O'Donnell in FA Cup, Match Previews
Venue: Etihad Stadium Kick off: 13:00 Form: United go into the game on the back of two shocking defeats to Blackburn and Newcastle, but fortunately remain second in the league just three points behind Sunday’s opposition. Performance wise, we haven’t been good enough. Some fans will question Ferguson’s tactics, which I think is fair enough looking at…
Written on Saturday, December 17, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Players, Rivals
In a recent interview, Ashley Young admitted there was interest from Manchester City last summer. Although, he said when he heard about Manchester United coming in for his signature there was no way he could go elsewhere. “That’s true, but as soon as I heard about Manchester United there was no other club for me,”…
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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