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By Mark Young. Introduction After a week of bad news around the country, Premier League football is finally back. Manchester United travel to the Hawthorns on Sunday afternoon to take on Roy Hodgson’s men. West Brom were the only team to take any points off the champions at Old Trafford last season, drawing two all, [...]

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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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 [...]

By Adam Hicks. 1. Team spirit: A great positive for Sir Alex and the fans was the togetherness of the team, aside from the usual grit and determination to come from behind and win, there was great understanding amongst the players. United moved the ball quickly and produced some great flowing passages of play continuing the [...]

By Tom Bell. Sunday sees Manchester United take on their city rivals Manchester City at Wembley in the Community Shield. United enter the game as the most successful side to have won the trophy, winning it a massive 11 times more than their counterparts,  with City’s last win of the shield in 1972. It has [...]

By Lee Savery. Every summer, Manchester United are linked with every “top” player in the world. Every summer, there is always at least one particular name that dominates the rumour mills and back pages for the whole duration of the transfer window. For this particular it has been all about or all not about, Inter [...]

By Nathan Thomas. 1. Ryan Giggs shows no sign of stopping Despite a summer he would rather forget Giggs has shown no ill effects of the alleged troubles in his personal life since the start of the tour. Each time he has featured he has looked to be enjoying his football and is clearly relishing [...]

By Nathan Thomas. Chicago Fire 1 Gibbs (13) Manchester United 3 Rooney (66), Rafael (76), Nani (88) Soldier Field, Chicago, 23/7/2011, 4pm KO (US Time) The score line may not have been as impressive as last time out on the US Tour but the importance of this fixture cannot be underplayed as for the first [...]

By Nathan Thomas. Seattle Sounders 0 Manchester United 7 Owen (15), Diouf (49), Rooney (51, 69, 72,) Park (71), Obertan (88) Centurylink Field, Seattle, 20/7/2011, 7pm KO (US Time) 1. The number one spot is still very much up for grabs. Despite twenty year old Spanish stopper David De Gea taking the number one shirt [...]