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 Sunday, August 21, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Match Previews, Premier League
Venue: Old Trafford Kick off: 20:00 – Monday night Form: To be fair, it’s too early to talk about form. Especially with Spurs, who had their match against Everton postponed last weekend due to the riots in London. However, the Lilywhites beat Hearts from Scotland 5-0 Thursday night in a Europa League qualifier. Manchester United…
Written on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Sir Alex Ferguson, Stats
When Sir Alex Ferguson started our summer spending on centre back Phil Jones from Blackburn, a lot of people wondered why? United already have Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic forming the best defensive partnership in the League and 2 very talented youngsters in Jonny Evans and Chris Smalling filling in well when needed. Jones did spend…
Written on Monday, May 30, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Premier League
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…
Vidic pictured after that magical night in Moscow. Despite Nemanja Vidic being linked with a move to number of other top clubs throughout Europe, he has said that he would like to spend the remainder of his career at Manchester United. Nemanja Vidic signed for Manchester United for a reported fee of around £7 million…
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…
With games coming thick and fast fortunately United’s injury crisis seems to be over the worst with key players such as Ji-Sung Park and Antonio Valencia coming back to provide valuable boosts to the Reds hunt for silverware. However the most important return could be in the shape of Rio Ferdinand who, after making his…
Written on Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Champions League, Match Reports
Wayne Rooney on the camera for all the right reasons. A repeat of the 2008 final went Manchester United’s way as they go back to Old Trafford a goal ahead thanks to Wayne Rooney, who put United a step closer to the ‘swear way of heaven’ (Wembley). Manchester United will obviously go into their second…
Written on Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in News
Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed that there is a possibility that Rio Ferdiand won’t play again for the remainder of the season after picking up a calf injury in a warm-up before Manchester United’s 2-1 defeat at Wolves in early February. Poor Rio might never get the chance to play with Van Der Sar again……
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..
Recent Comments