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To tweet, or not to tweet

By Adam Hicks. Twitter is fast becoming a dangerous playground for some footballers as their comments are causing controversy and forcing clubs to re-think their stance on social networking sites. Joey Barton is the latest player to hit the headlines for misusing the site, last week he criticised the Newcastle United board and was subsequently [...]

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PHOTOS: Open Training Session 2011

PHOTOS: Open Training Session 2011

Manchester United’s squad participated in an open training session to help raise money for the Manchester United Foundation. Below is a selection of photographs taken during the event. To see more photographs click here. To see more photographs from the open training session please click here. —————————————– Join Stretford End Arising’s Fantasy Premier League 2011/12 [...]

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Change is coming to United

The general consensus appears to be that Manchester United is a creative midfielder away from the perfect transfer window quartet, according to the British media at least. All and sundry were expecting changes this summer and it appears that Sir Alex Ferguson has concurred with their view. The Manchester outfit have acquired three fresh faces [...]

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Talking United with: Dave Hemingway

By Tom Bell What you may know about Dave Hemingway is his successful musical career, starting with the Housemartins with popular songs “Caravan of Love” and “Five get over excited” but to name a few, to fronting Hull-based band The Beautiful South, with an entire catalogue of hits, such as “Rotterdam”, “Perfect 10”, “Good as [...]

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Manchester United 2010-11 Season Review Part 3 (February – May)

Contribution by Mark Young Read Manchester United 2010-11 Season Review here February (PL) United 3 – 1 Aston Villa (PL) Wolves 2 – 1 United (PL) United 2 – 1 Manchester City (FA) United 1 – 0 Crawley (CL) Marseille 0 -0 United (PL) Wigan Athletic 0 – 4 United February was an interesting month [...]

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Manchester United 2010-11 Season Review Part 2 (November – January)

Contribution by Mark Young Read Manchester United 2010-11 Season Review here November (CL) Bursaspor 0-3 United (PL) United 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (PL) Manchester City City 0-0 United (PL) Aston Villa 2-2 United (PL) United 2-0 Wigan Athletic (UCL) Glasgow Rangers 0-1 United (UCL) United 7-1 Blackburn Rovers (CC) West Ham United 4-0 United United were [...]

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Manchester United 2010-11 Season Review Part 1 (August – October)

Contribution by Mark Young Read Manchester United 2010-11 Season Review here It was a relatively quiet summer at Old Trafford in terms of incoming players. Unknown Javier Hernandez signed before the World Cup from Guadalajara for £6 million. He joined Chris Smalling from Fulham in Sir Alex Ferguson’s squad. There was to be one final [...]

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End of Season Awards

Contribution by Adam Hicks Manchester United players past and present gathered at Old Trafford last night for their end of season awards which saw Nani crowned the Players’ Player of the Season. There were also awards for Javier Hernandez who scooped the Fans Player of the Year and Wayne Rooney who won Goal of the [...]

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Ferguson charged for Webb comments

Contribution by Adam Hicks Sir Alex Ferguson’s pre-match comments about referee Howard Webb have resulted in a charge of improper conduct by the Football Association. The comments came in the build-up to United’s crucial league game with Chelsea at Old Trafford last weekend. United beat Chelsea 2-1 to leave them needing one point from their [...]

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United may just pull off unprecedented treble

Contribution by Jack Dudley The negative prospects believed to lie ahead of Manchester United, when they lost to Barcelona in the summer of 2009, have somewhat evaporated of late. The additional losses at the time of Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez were also supposed to strike a major blow to the United ranks. Last season they [...]

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