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As the season reaches an exciting climax, Stretford End Arising has a Manchester United related T-Shirt to give away courtesy of Street Baroque (streetbaroque.bigcartel.com). The winner can choose from a Stretford End Arising, Alex Ferguson or Eric Cantona t-shirt. Stretford End Arising/WX24 T-Shirt A fashion fitted t-shirt with Street Baroque’s unique “WX24″ design – printed [...]

By Rob Cowsill This article has been cobbled together for the purposes of analysing whether one entity can ever triumph over another similarly able entity during the course of 180 minutes of association football – Well the answer is insultingly obvious… maybe! (unless Tom Henning Ovrebo is refereeing). The stage is set then for the [...]

As the title race reaches an exciting climax, Stretford End Arising has four copies of the book Manchester United Then and Now to give away courtesy of Anova Books Group. You can read Stretford End Arising’s book review of Manchester United Then and Now here. The aim of the competition is to guess the time [...]

After every Manchester United match the Player Ratings thread included a Man of the Match poll. The player with the highest number of votes is awarded five points, the second highest receives three points and the hird highest one point. In case of a tie, full points are awarded to those with an equal number [...]

By FarlieOnFootie and Correspondent Ed. It took exactly 35 games and 39 seconds, but it was all finally over when Carlo Ancelotti’s left eyebrow – you know, the one that seems permanently raised at press conferences – literally popped up and off his forehead and scuttled off the pitch at Old Trafford, all the while [...]

By G@mb!t I have come across an interesting trend recently, which other football fans have noticed too. Any player linked with a big English team, City are also linked and consequently the price increase in the player’s valuation is tenfold once City poke their ugly heads in. Be it David Silva, Fernando Torres, Angel Di [...]

Guess the time of the first goal to win yourself a Manchester United prize. As the race for fourth spot reaches an exciting climax, community members of Stretford End Arising have the opportunity to win Manchester United merchandise courtesy of SoccerPro.com. The aim of the competition is to guess the time of the first goal [...]

Yeah, Cricket celebrations are wanted for this weekend’s Manchester derby. Apparently Manchester Police have contacted both Sir Alex Ferguson and Roberto Mancini in an attempt to restrain their players’ goal celebration. Of course the please are wary of a repeat of the Neville & Tevez spat and Evra & Bellamy having objects thrown at them [...]

A poll to decide goal of the month for March has been open for approximately two weeks on Stretford End Arising. The Nominees for Goal of the Month were: Paul Scholes v Wolves Wayne Rooney’s 1st v AC Milan Wayne Rooney’s 2nd v AC Milan Wayne Rooney’s 2nd goal v Fulham Ji-Sung Park v Liverpool [...]

In the month of March, Manchester United scored a total of 15 goals in 6 games. The breakdown is as follows: Rooney – 6 goals Berbatov – 3 goals Park – 2 goals Fletcher – 1 goal Scholes – 1 goal Gibson – 1 goal Own Goal – 1 Paul Scholes v Wolves Perhaps this [...]