Written on Saturday, December 3, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Match Previews
Manchester United travel to Villa Park this evening in search of the all important three points – a result we haven’t managed at the ground since 2007, which finished a 4 goal blitz as United strolled past a nine-man Villa. If my memory serves me correct, Wayne Rooney scored two while Rio Ferdiand and Ryan…
Written on Saturday, October 1, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Match Reports
1. A definite contender for the least enjoyable game of the season. Based on the performance, we can count ourselves lucky. We granted the Canaries enough chances to cause an upset but thanks to poor finishing, particularly from Steve Morison, that wasn’t the case. We found it difficult to create real chances in the first…
Written on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in 2010-11 season review, Year Book
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 Monday, May 30, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Champions 2010/11
Despite losing the Champions League final Saturday night, thousands of fans surrounded the streets of Manchester to watch Fergie and his men show off their nineteenth league title. StrettyNews.com would like to thank Annie Eaves from the Mirror for granting us permission to use her photographs in the gallery below – you can follow her…
Written on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Manchester United Latest News
Below, we have listed the nominees and winners from the Manchester United award night that took place on May 18, 2011. Jimmy Murphy Young Player of the Year nominees: Ryan Tunnicliffe, Paul Pogba and Tom Thorpe. Winner: Ryan Tunnicliffe The 18-year-old won the coaches’ vote for the award. However, people from our twitter stream were…
Written on Monday, April 18, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Premier League
Rafael with Bale, PFA Player Of The Year in his back pocket! Manchester United and Arsenal dominated the Premier League team of the year with at total of seven players between them being included in the XI. However, the whole ceremony became a joke when Tottenham Hotspur winger, Gareth Bale was named PFA Player of…
Written on Friday, April 15, 2011 by Guest Writer in Players
Growing up in India, it is a normal thing to find yourself crowded with cricket obsessed people, giving their expert views on each and every aspect of the game. I, being no exception, was growing up in the same circumstances. But the FIFA World Cup 2006 held in Germany attracted my attention towards football. Sitting…
Thank god we are not living under the old American College gridiron criteria. The Americans used to have this system where the national championship was determined by votes. Gareth Bale, with seven goals and one Premier League assist, is on the shortlist of the PFA Player of the Year nominees. If you look at the…
Written on Saturday, March 26, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Players
Manchester United’s highly-rated winger, Luis Nani, doesn’t think he gets enough freedom from Sir Alex Ferguson to express himself on the pitch. When Cristiano Ronaldo first joined United back in 2003, he couldn’t go on a run without doing a number of step-overs and I’ll admit that I enjoyed it at times but it’s very…
Written on Sunday, March 6, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Match Reports
The most significant sporting rivalry in English football went Liverpool’s way today as they did all they could in order to prevent Manchester United from making history, being the only club in England to have won 19th league titles. Dirk Kuyt scored his first hat-trick for the dippers, which was probably the easiest set of…
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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