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By Lee Savery It is the end of the year and everyone is making up their own “lists of 2011”, so to carry on a tradition started last year, I present my Manchester United awards for the calendar year 2011: Player of 2011 1 – Wayne Rooney 2010 was not the best of years for [...]

By Tony Mogan After Manchester United managed the seemingly unthinkable and dropped points at home two games on the bounce, a perplexing end to November culminated in defeat at the hands of a plucky Crystal Palace side, a miserable end to Sir Alex Ferguson’s League Cup ambitions. With a crucial visit to Basel lying in [...]

By Nathan Thomas. 1. Midfield craving creative spark This, I’m sure you’ll agree with me is the most evident thing that we learnt from the match on Saturday, although many would argue we have known this for a long time. Beating Sunderland via an own goal from one of our greatest servants is nothing to [...]

By Nathan Thomas. 1. Hardly vintage, but enough As in recent weeks United got the result without setting the world alight but in the cold light of day in the aftermath of recent results a 1-0 win at Goodison Park will be gladly received in and around Old Trafford. United won the game based on [...]

By Nathan Thomas. 1. United were awful, weren’t they? At the game on Saturday I had the misfortune of sitting next to some of United’s doom-brigade and although someone of little football knowledge would be able to tell you that United were far from spectacular the way these guys were going on you’d think the [...]

By Adam Hicks. Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed that Nemanja Vidic will be out of action for at least a month with a calf injury instead of the two weeks the club had initially thought. Vidic limped off in United’s 2-1 victory at the Hawthorn’s on the opening day of the season but was expected [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Contribution by Lee Savery 5th January 2006. Manchester United agreed a fee with Spartak Moscow of around £7 million for the signing of a, then unknown, Serbian defender Nemanja Vidic. A target the club had been interested in since 2003. He made his début a few weeks later at Ewood Park in the Carling Cup [...]

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 [...]