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Contribution by Lee Savery The nominees for the two top player’s player awards in English football for 2011 have been officially announced. With the announcement of the winners coming up this weekend, do the players nominated deserve their place on the list? PFA Player of the Year: Charlie Adam (Blackpool FC) – The Blackpool captain [...]

Contribution by Tom Pattison Why this is a great team. I believe that our current side is on the cusp of greatness despite being criminally under-appreciated by the majority of the football media. I must confess that the view I am going to criticise is one that I have voiced on many occasions earlier in [...]

Contribution by Jordan Bailey-Smith Two UEFA Champions League titles, one UEFA Cup, two Portuguese Primiera Liga championships, two FA Premier League titles, an FA Cup win against the Red Devils and two Serie A league titles. This is an impressive résumé for a manager who recently lost his record of never being defeated in a [...]

Contribution by Tom Pattison 1) Prioritise the League. This might not meet with universal approval but I believe this season our principle focus has to be the League title. I don’t believe for one moment that we are the best team in Europe; that accolade rightly goes to Barcelona and we should not compromise our [...]

By Joe Angove ‘Ooo ahh Cantona’ I would scream at the telly as the gifted Frenchman graced the field, he was the first player who I remember aspiring to as a child, sparking my lifelong passion for Manchester United. I write this at the age of 22, having supported Man United ever since I can [...]

By Shaun Payne On a hot day in April in 1989, the face of English football was forever changed after tragedy struck in the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, home to Sheffield Wednesday FC when ninety-six spectators were killed at an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. The large crowd that had gathered to [...]

Contribution by Joe McQuoid Following Dimitar Berbatov’s dramatic late winner against Bolton last Saturday, the International fortnight was welcomed with open arms by the vast majority of reds after a turbulent March, in which we saw Manchester United suffer back-to-back defeats for the first time this season and Sir Alex Ferguson banished to the stands [...]

Contribution by Robert Jeffries Manchester United have revealed that they will not be appealing against the five game ban handed to Sir Alex Ferguson over the comments made after the 2-1 loss to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge earlier this month. The decision leaves possibly more questions than answers as the fallout over the issue rattles [...]

By Adam Hicks. Sir Alex Ferguson has been given a five-match touchline ban and a fine of £30,000 by the Football Association for his comments about referee Martin Atkinson after United’s defeat at Chelsea earlier this month. The United manager was found guilty of improper conduct for criticising the referee’s performance in the 2-1 defeat [...]

By Tom Pattison Tommy’s 2010 Awards: In a characteristically unimaginative offering I present my Manchester United awards for the calendar year 2010: Player of 2010 1 Luis Carlos Almelda da Cunha (Nani) – A year ago I was prepared to throw in the towel on Nani. He appeared to have learned only petulance from his Madrid based [...]