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Match Preview: Watford following two consecutive defeats
Kick-off: Noon (Urgh !) Venue: Vicarage Road TV: BT Sport 1 Referee: Michael Oliver (Oh ffs !) On the face of it...
Three points from United’s rotten night in Rotterdam
Mourinho’s lack of passion affected the players. Mourinho wasn’t exactly discreet with his contempt for the Europa League in the build up...
Derby Day woes show there is much work to do
United’s derby day defeat starkly exposed the size of the job Mourinho has on his hands. It was indeed a result that...
Match Preview: Derby Day
Kick off: 12:30pm Venue: Old Trafford Telly Box: Sky Sports 1 Referee: Marky Mark Clattenburg Embed from Getty Images This weekend’s Manchester Derby...
Match Preview: Tonight we dine…IN HULL!
Kick-off: 5:30 pm Venue: KC Stadium Television: BT Sport Referee: Jonathon Moss After the dust had settled on the Community Shield, United...
Match Preview: Manchester United vs Southampton
Venue: Old Trafford Referee: Anthony Taylor Kick-off: 8pm Channel: Sky Sports 1 Collective sighs of relief were breathed all over the country...
Northern Loudmouth’s Premier League prediction bonanza!
Prepare to make me eat my words come May as I attempt to predict the chaos ahead. Where will United finish in...
United’s absurd and miserable pre-season is over. Thank f*** for that.
One of football’s appeals is that it is essentially escapism, and some escapism is needed right now, for a short while at least. Between...
The King of Football
  Around five years ago, Wayne Rooney gave up playing football and handed things over to a lookalike from Bootle while he...
No tears should be shed for Louis but Jose is hardly better.
I do wonder how superficial Man United fans have become. The scramble for an arrogant, antagonistic Dutchman to be replaced by an arrogant,...
The Boleyn farewell should have signalled Van Gaal’s own goodbye…but it probably won’t
I do sometimes wonder about the priorities of my fellow modern football fan. The desperate grasping for another, largely undeserved taste of...
Let’s celebrate, as more LvG misery awaits!
Louis Van Gaal would have been one of the great entertainers of the early twentieth century, had he been around. He could...