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By Barry McEvoy. Swansea will feel that the score-line flattered Manchester United somewhat after their 5th round FA Youth Cup encounter at the Liberty Stadium. Despite not dominating for long spells, United ran out 5-1 winners in front on the crowd of 4,080. First half goals from Jack Barmby, Gyliano Van Velzen and Sam Byrne [...]

By R. Nugent. A pulsating league match in bitter and blustery conditions in front of Sir Alex and many Manchester United stars resulted in a fantastic three all draw at Carrington. Bolton made a blistering start to the game that seemed to have stunned their Manchester counterparts. Their quick one and two touch movement made [...]

By R. Nugent. Manchester United comprehensively made their way through to the fourth round of the FA Youth Cup with a professional four nil victory over Torquay United at Moss Lane. With Adnan Januzaj and Jack Rudge in midfield, the Reds had total control over the midfield, culminating in the lion’s share of possession and [...]

By R. Nugent. Ravel Morrison and Manchester United gave a lovely display of how football should be played, as they emphatically defeated Wigan 4-1 thanks to a brace from Morrison and a goal each from forgotten man David Petrucci and local boy Ezekiel Fryers. United started off the game as expected with plenty of possession, [...]

By Barry McEvoy. Clinical. Probably the apt word to describe the first half. Neither side had many chances, but the chances that they did have were turned to goals. City started the better side and deservedly went one – nil up after twenty-seven minutes with a well worked goal finished off by Jordi Hiwula. Denis [...]

By Nathan Thomas. Moss Lane 12/09/2011 Manchester United – 2 Diouf (44, 82) Fulham – 1 Frei (90) United reserves overcame a stern Fulham team to take victory at Moss Lane and in doing so went top of the Barclays Premier Reserve League North. It was the striker in form Mame Biram-Diouf who ultimately proved [...]

By Nathan Thomas. Moss Lane 8/9/2011 Manchester United Reserves -  2 Blackett (37) M. Keane (57) Bury Reserves – 0 A young United reserve contingent plundered their way to a 2-0 victory over Bury in the Manchester Senior Cup on a rain sodden night at Moss Lane despite being well off top form. Before the [...]

By Barry McEvoy. Paul McGuinness and his Manchester United side may be feeling hard done by this evening as they were defeated by two goals to one against Portsmouth at Carrington in the first game of the season. Despite being the better side for long periods of the game United couldn’t find the net with [...]

By Barry McEvoy. Two teams with quite a bit of first team experience both home and away faced off in their opening reserve league games at Barnet’s home ground of Underhill. Four very noticeable names started for United, Tomasz Kuszczak, Darron Gibson and Mame Biram Diouf, all perhaps in the shop window, and also the [...]

By Barry McEvoy The final fence left for Manchester United U-18s was John Pemberton’s Sheffield United u18 side. Few fans would have expected the young Blades to reach the latter stages of this years competition so to see them facing United in the final is a real shock. A huge crowd of almost 30,000 spilled [...]