Written on Friday, January 27, 2012 by Dale O'Donnell in A View From The Enemy, FA Cup
Before the FA Cup encounter between Liverpool and United this weekend, we invited former Liverpool and Ireland international Jason McAteer on to the blog so he could answer a few questions for our ‘view from the enemy’ feature. However, ‘Trigger’ refused to answer our questions on Dalglish, Liverpool-based media and his relationship with United players…
Written on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Rant
The Luis Suarez 8-game punishment is a very bad one. Assuming the matter was proven. Punishing racist slants is very important. It cannot be dismissed as what Americans call “trash talk” or as “cultural sensitivity”. A black player is entitled to a fair and reasonable environment at his work place. Even if his work place is an…
Written on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in News updates
Luis Suarez has finally been found guilty of a racist action towards Patrice Evra in October’s match at Anfield. The Uruguayan now faces an eight match suspension along with a fine worth £40,000. Suarez attempted to defend his alleged racist comments to Evra, with the backing of his manager Kenny Dalglish and the club itself, but the…
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 Thursday, December 1, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Other Football
Edwin van der Sar, Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Luis Nani and Wayne Rooney have all been named in a 55-man shortlist for the Fifa Fifpro World XI 2011, which includes 22 nominees from Spain’s Primera Liga – mainly coming from Barcelona and Real Madrid. Fifpro is the worldwide representative organization for all professional players…
Written on Monday, October 17, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Rivals
Unless you were asleep under a rock over the weekend, you would have come across the news that Patrice Evra had accused Liverpool striker Luis Suarez of making racist remarks towards him, at least 10 times during the match Saturday. When the allegations were made to the FA Saturday night, people immediately signed into Twitter…
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 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 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…
Written on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Transfer News
News earlier broke that Patrice Evra is committed to Manchester United and may extend his contract after his representative confirming that he isn’t interested in a move to the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu. Newspapers around the country have been linking United with Everton’s Merseyside born left back, Leighton Baines, ever since reports came out that Evra…
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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