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By Nathan Thomas. 1. Consistent back four a big plus for United United seem to finally have assembled a steady consistent back four, with Vidic’s return to fitness being swiftly followed by Ferdinand; United’s back four are beginning to establish a confident understanding between one another that was so lacking in the early stages of [...]

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 Barry McEvoy. 1. Something’s Up With Valencia We’ve always known that he has trouble using his left peg, but he usually manages to counter-act that by taking the ball down the line. Not this game. He seemed afraid to take his man on, which is completely unlike him. He was determined to cut inside [...]

By Nathan Thomas. 1. Hernandez the gift that just keeps giving After a fantastic first season talk that Javier Hernandez might suffer what has come to be known as ‘second season syndrome’ had been bubbling under the surface however early signs seem to suggest that there will be no such occurrence. Hernandez notched an invaluable [...]

By Shamoon Hafez. After seeing, and raising a wry smile at, what’s kicked off across the city with our former frontman Carlos Tevez, it led me to think how the fans would react if one of our players performed in such a manner. Almost every home game, Old Trafford is packed to the rafters with [...]

By Nathan Thomas. Well, not quite the blistering football we’ve been used to so far this season but considering the quality in Chelsea’s team I’d call that a brilliant result. In the end it was United’s superior finishing that won the day and we even managed to miss a couple of sitters, we can’t complain [...]

By Nathan Thomas. 1. Manchester United the team to beat once again. If someone would have told me that by 6pm on Sunday United would be top of the league after Manchester City demolished Spurs 5-1 at White Hart Lane I would have been somewhat sceptical. The performance that I and thousands of other United [...]

By Adam Hicks. 1. ‘You can’t win anything with kids’ Having proven Alan Hansen’s now infamous statement meaningless it doesn’t seemed to have stopped Sir Alex from having another go. The average age of Manchester United’s starting XI tonight was just 23 and on another note it contained seven British players. United’s policy of placing [...]

By Nathan Thomas. 1. Young a shrewd purchase News of the impending signing of Ashley Young was greeted with relative surprise from many Reds, he has ability yes and was clearly the stand out player at Aston Villa but was this just a case of a big fish in small pond? After being torn apart [...]