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By Nathan Youd. Crystal Palace’s U18s edged past Manchester United’s U18s in Saturday’s U18 Premier League Elite Phase encounter at Carrington. Both sides created a host of chances in a fast paced and entertaining game, but Palace just had a little too much for their United counterparts in the end to deservedly take the spoils. Palace started [...]

By Bryan Waters. Despite coming from behind twice in the game, Manchester United’s U18s still tasted a 4-2 defeat in a pulsating encounter against Southampton’s U18s. United had Norwegian under 21 international Mats Daehli back available in their starting line-up, replacing Jack Rudge, and that was the only change made from last week’s 1-0 victory [...]

By Nathan Youd. Manchester United’s U21s and Arsenal’s U21s shared the spoils in a four-goal thriller at Moss Lane. All the goals were scored in a frantic first half, with Nick Powell, who started up front, and Jesse Lingard netting for United and the impressive Chuba Akpom bagging a brace for the visitors. Despite the [...]

By Bryan Waters. Manchester United U18s overcame a tough fixture against Reading with a 1-0 victory at Carrington. Paul McGuinness’ side were looking to continue from their positive point away at Chelsea last weekend and made a goalkeeping change with Pierluigi Gollini replacing Jonny Sutherland. That decision proved effective as Gollini made a series of [...]

By Bryan Waters. Manchester Senior Cup – Manchester United vs Oldham Athletic. 7pm, Moss Lane, Altrincham. Larnell Cole scored four as Manchester United’s Under 21s cruised through their Manchester Senior Cup tie with Oldham Athletic in a 7-0 demolition at Moss Lane. Warren Joyce’s side dominated possession and started brightly with a shot from defender [...]

By Nathan Youd. Manchester United’s U18s started their Elite Group Stage campaign with a 3-2 victory over Bolton Wanderers in an enthralling encounter at Lostock Hall Farm. James Wilson’s last gasp winner secured the three points for United, whilst Bolton will feel aggrieved to have not come out of the fixture with anything to show [...]

By Daryl Hornby (Sheffield United supporter) Sheffield United 2-1 Port Vale – 01/12/2012 Sheffield United miraculously turned this FA Cup game on its head as they went into injury time a goal down, only to emerge victorious with two goals from Shaun Miller in injury time sending them into the hat for the third round. [...]

By Daryl Hornby (Sheffield United supporter) During the six games played in November, John Cofie made just one appearance in his loan spell at Sheffield United. It was during a convincing 4-1 home win against fellow promotion hopefuls Stevenage, where he was brought on in the 89th minute to replace two goal hero Shaun Miller. Sadly, [...]

By Rob Britton. Manchester United’s U21s lost their first home game in two years in a 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa. Warren Joyce was forced to field a weakened team due to several players being included in the first team’s travelling squad to face Galatasaray in the Champions League. Absentees meant Mats Daehli, Jack Barmby [...]

By Rob Britton. Manchester United’s U18s continued their fine form in the league as they beat Aston Villa 2-0 at Bodymoor Heath, courtesy of goals from James Weir and Jack Barmby. United were confident in possession and could have won by a larger margin, but Paul McGuinness’ side lacked a killer instinct and were lacklustre in [...]