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Mixed Feelings on the Ole Outcome

Published on 2012-05-22 17:59:05

I read with interest the other day that United Legend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was a target for the vacant Aston Villa managerial position. At first, I didn’t want him to take it. Villa seem to be in the doldrums at the moment and they have rarely made any great shakes in the top flight since [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

G-Owen G-Owen Gone

Published on 2012-05-17 08:04:23

Aplogies for the dodgy title. It, of course, refers to the news that Michael Owen has not been offered a new contract at Manchester United and is now looking for another Premier League club to come along and secure his services for next season. Last time he found himself in this situation (i.e. before we [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Wio Left Out

Published on 2012-05-16 07:40:01

England’s squad for Euro 2012 has just been released and there was something of a surprise from new boss Roy Hodgson as he’s left our Rio out. Rio must be wondering what heinous crimes he committed in some previous life to deserve the ill treatment and bad luck he’s been on the wrong end of [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Valencia Sweeps Club Awards

Published on 2012-05-15 04:02:16

I felt as far back as February that Antonio Valencia, despite his injury problems, the arrival of Young and the coming-good of Nani was not only our best wide player but our best player full-stop and his excellent season was rewarded last night with the Sir Matt Busby Trophy for being the fans’ choice of [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

How the Title Was Lost

Published on 2012-05-14 03:58:46

We came within a whisker of securing our 20th League Title yesterday but none of us really knew how. We had it in our hands a few weeks ago. An eight point lead, City seemingly in freefall and we were coasting. It all seemed bizarrely easy. Perhaps too easy. Because, being honest – and it [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Well Done, City

Published on 2012-05-13 11:07:07

Well, we always knew that this title race would go right down to the wire but today was ridiculous! I can’t quite describe at the moment how gutting it was to be on the brink of an unlikely Title win one minute and then to hear that City had snatched it back at the death [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Sunderland v Man Utd (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-05-13 03:16:43

The Red half of Manchester go into today more in hope than any expectation. The title is as good as City’s and today we will all go through the motions before it is finally confirmed. Apparently, there will be two trophies and two sets of winners medals on standby but one lot seems largely pointless. [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd v Swansea (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-05-06 05:11:46

For the first time this season, we go into a game knowing that the fate of the title is now out of our hands and that we are relying on what happens elsewhere to keep our title hopes alive. By the time this match kicks off, we will know the result of the Newcastle/City match [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Is That A Chink of Light I See?

Published on 2012-05-02 16:55:37

First of all, let me just say that this is clutching at straws. After holding an eight point lead in the Premier League with a handful of games to play, we should have had this wrapped up by now. In some ways, we probably don’t even deserve to win the Premier League after recent results/performances. [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Silly Season Starts Now

Published on 2012-05-02 05:03:57

The actual football season is not even over and there are still two pieces of domestic silverware to be decided as it all looks likely to go right down to the wire but that hasn’t stopped the journalists from telling everyone who Sir Alex Ferguson will be buying this summer. As United fans, we’re used [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man City 1 – 0 Man Utd

Published on 2012-04-30 19:19:24

I normally like to watch a replay of a match before writing these reviews but on this occasion, I don’t feel it it necessary. Thankfully, this match was not decided by any dodgy refereeing decisions. In fact, the referee had very little to do. He gave out a few yellow cards but I think all [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man City v Man Utd (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-04-30 05:55:58

Well, this game seems to have taken an absolute age to come around but that has only heightened the anticipation for every Blue and Red around the world, especially here in Manchester. I suspect a fair few neutrals are also eagerly looking forward to this one too. Some figures I read this morning suggested that [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Mancunian Thoughts…

Published on 2012-04-27 19:33:36

I had to drive my better half to some NHS clinic in Longsight today. A drive which took me past the Etihad Stadium. As I drove along, I took a look at it… it looks scruffy at the moment, there seem to be some kind of works going on. At least I hope that there [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd 4 – 4 Everton

Published on 2012-04-24 04:00:54

Firstly, apologies that there was no preview to this game. With the early kick-off, I simply didn’t leave myself enough time to get it done. I may well have gone for the Over 2.5 Goals in this one but there was no way on earth that I would have predicted what eventually happened in this [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Will Will Be Given A Chance?

Published on 2012-04-20 07:52:28

Long-time readers of this blog will know that I have been singing the praises of one of our Academy/Reserve players for several seasons now and that player is Will Keane. For those of you who don’t get to watch our Reserves and/or Academy play, Will Keane is a 19 year old striker who, I feel, [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Why I’m Rooting For Bayern Munich

Published on 2012-04-19 01:27:29

In a display of churlishness of the highest degree, I’m going to just have a little rant in this post about why I’m rooting for Bayern Munich as this season’s Champions League draws to its conclusion. The four teams left in the competition are, of course, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Chelsea. All four [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Goal-line Technology On Its Way?

Published on 2012-04-18 05:25:53

Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time will know that I have always been in favour of technology being used to get major decisions in games right. Personally, I am not just in favour of goal-line technology but in favour of some kind of video-referee to assist the actual ref with [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

What’s With Wigan?

Published on 2012-04-17 03:06:03

A few days ago, we were beaten 1-0 by Wigan. Now, we didn’t play particularly well but Wigan played far better than their lowly position towards the foot of the league would suggest that they were capable of. Most people (including Sir Alex) said that Wigan thoroughly deserved their win. Before that game, I noticed [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd 4 – 0 Aston Villa

Published on 2012-04-16 04:09:30

On a day when it started with a dive and ended with a back-flip, this one could end up being remembered more for the gymnastic performances of one or two of our players but there was a lot more to this performance than that. Yet again though, most of the talk is about the way [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd v Aston Villa (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-04-15 06:27:19

In a recent post, I said that we looked to be finishing the season better than City and that I thought that the finishing points gap would be even larger than the eight points it was at the time. With City banging in ten goals to one conceded since then whilst we have only managed [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Wigan 1 – 0 Man Utd

Published on 2012-04-12 18:06:55

Whilst totally against all known form and historical records, there was something not entirely surprising about this result. This is Manchester United. We just don’t do straight-forward. Never have, never will. I did actually feel that Wigan, of late, were playing as well as they had done all season and I had a hunch that [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Wigan v Man Utd (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-04-11 04:47:03

Well, I expected a few changes in our game against QPR but they didn’t really materialise so it’s hard to tell how Fergie will line up for this one tonight. A couple of changes would be par for the course but any more than that would be somewhat unusual. Since the results over the weekend, [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Is That It?

Published on 2012-04-09 08:05:05

Well, yesterday’s match against QPR couldn’t have gone much better. We were dominant from the opening whistle and when QPR went down to ten men and we scored the resulting penalty after just fifteen minutes, it was as good as over. Actually, before I go on here, I feel that I must say something about [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd v QPR

Published on 2012-04-08 04:18:22

As with our last match, this one pits us against another team that find themselves very much part of the relegation battle but the difference this time is that we have home advantage. After the excellent performance against Blackburn which I think proved to everyone that we don’t intend to let this lead slip without [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Blackburn v Man Utd (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-04-02 06:12:05

With City dropping points over the weekend, we have the chance to go five points ahead with a win from this one. However, as I mentioned in my post after the City result, three points from games at Ewood Park have not exactly come easily for us in recent years for reasons unknown and it [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Advantage United

Published on 2012-03-31 11:40:28

City have been sailing pretty close to the wind for the last few games but have had the quality to get themselves out of jail… but not today… well, not fully. In recent weeks, they have found themselves behind in each of their last six games (including their Europa League games) but have usually found [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd 1 – 0 Fulham (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-03-27 04:20:46

Well, this one was painful to watch. At the end of the day, we got the three points and I’m certain Fergie would take eight 1-0 wins in our last eight games but hopefully not like this or we’ll all be on medication for nerves and stress by the 13th May. On a night when [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd v Fulham (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-03-26 04:15:47

As Manchester United fans, there hasn’t been much in the way of action to get our teeth into over the last week or so and we’ve had to content ourselves with watching City almost hand us the title without us even kicking a ball. Firstly, they had to come from behind against Chelsea and, whilst [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Apologies

Published on 2012-03-19 17:45:36

I’m posting this as an apology. The site has really let itself go of late. Well, actually, I have really let it go of late… let’s be honest, the site is a non-sentient kind of being… I’m the “brains” behind it… and that is worrying really because there are times when I don’t even know [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

The Missing Post

Published on 2012-03-15 16:06:51

Knowing that I was going to be out all today, I wrote today’s post last evening and scheduled it to be published for 9am this morning but, for some reason known only to the interweb, my blog software decided not to publish it so imagine my horror when I logged on to update things this [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd v West Brom (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-03-11 05:25:01

With City not playing until later this afternoon, we have a chance to go to the top of the table here (for a couple of hours, at any rate) but it is clearly going to take a better performance than the one we saw against Bilbao in midweek because whilst some of our home form [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd v Athletic Club (Europa League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-03-08 03:55:26

When this season is over and the post-mortems are conducted, it will be our home form – particularly in Europe which will be under the most scrutiny and, should we fail to win any silverware then it will almost certainly be claimed to be the cause of … well, not quite death but certainly downfall. [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Tottenham 1 – 3 Man Utd

Published on 2012-03-05 05:44:38

A few weeks ago, we went down to London and played Chelsea and sat there scratching our heads as to how we found ourselves 3-0 down. This time, we went down to London and sat there scratching our heads as to how we found ourselves 3-0 up! Well, I know which one I prefer but [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Tottenham v Man Utd (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-03-04 04:50:58

Fergie has already identified this one as a key match in the defence of our title – “win this one and we can win the title” is the message and with good reason: Tottenham have, at times this season, looked the best side in the league and have lost once at The Lane – the [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Norwich 1 – 2 Man Utd

Published on 2012-02-27 07:53:10

Well, this one turned out to be every bit as tough as I suspected it would be but the slightly frustrating thing is that we made it harder for ourselves by giving away possession needlessly far too often. Of course, Norwich played their part in this with their tireless pressing which sometimes led to our [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Norwich v Man Utd

Published on 2012-02-26 06:20:55

Apologies for the lateness of this post. Norwich have been enjoying a great season in the Premier League so far and currently sit in eighth position and the possibility of getting even higher is not beyond them at this stage. At home, in particular, they have proved extremely difficult to beat and have lost just [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd 1 – 2 Ajax

Published on 2012-02-24 06:52:51

Well, this one was extremely frustrating to watch. Going out of the Champions League at the group stage should have acted as a massive wake-up call to the players because I firmly believe that it was down to complacency rather than any footballing deficiency within the team but this was Basel all over again. We [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd v Ajax (Europa League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-02-23 06:20:24

We go into this match with a 2-0 lead following last week’s first leg in Amsterdam which should be enough to see us through but I do believe that we could and should have really put this one to bed laast week. In any case, one more goal for us tonight will surely put the [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Ajax 0 – 2 Man Utd (Europa League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-02-17 07:30:42

Sometimes you can just tell within minutes that you have put the wrong bet on and this was one such occasion. I don’t know if we showed Ajax a little too much respect or it was the other way ’round but the opening forty-five minutes of this game was  tedious in the extreme for large [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Ajax v Man Utd (Europa League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-02-16 07:31:29

Whilst an appearance in the Europa League might be something of a comedown for us Manchester United fans, a thought should be spared for Ajax who, in days gone by, were one of the best and most successful sides in the history of the game. In the early seventies, they won the European Cup three [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Body Clock Readjustment

Published on 2012-02-14 06:48:52

The Champions League gets underway this evening with a couple of decent games to look forward to including Barcelona away to Leverkusen and then tomorrow Arsenal take on AC Milan in Italy. The other four matches get played next week but there’s one name missing from the fixture list – that of Manchester United. Yes, [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd v Liverpool (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-02-11 03:19:33

Manchester United v Liverpool. You would think that that in itself is enough to fill any number of column inches but certain journalists have seemed desperate to make more of this than I think is necessary. Sometimes I wish certain journalists would understand that for the vast majority of football fans, football is an escape [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Stay Put, Harry!

Published on 2012-02-09 03:34:23

Following Fabio Capello’s resignation as England manager as a result of him actually possessing a thing called “principles” the clamour is now for Harry Redknapp to take over the job. “Come on Harry! Your Country needs you!” Is this the same country that yesterday had him in the dock on tax evasion charges? The same [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Is the English FA Fit to Represent England?

Published on 2012-02-08 05:02:05

Like most people, I’ve been following the case of John Terry with some interest and have often thought of writing an article on the subject but thought it best to stay out of such a controversial issue and stick to talking about Manchester United matches. In any case, I have no allegiance or otherwise with [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Chelsea 3 – 3 Man Utd

Published on 2012-02-07 05:24:43

This game will be remembered for the stunning comeback from 3-0 by United but the biggest question on everyone’s lips was, “How the hell did we find ourselves 3-0 down in the first place?” There wasn’t much to get too over-excited about in the first half. Welbeck appeared to be tripped for a possible penalty [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Never Forget

Published on 2012-02-06 08:04:44

Blog this on Blogger Share this on Facebook Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Post on Google Buzz Add this to Mister Wong Share this on Mixx Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Tweet [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Chelsea v Man Utd (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-02-05 05:41:02

In my preview of the season, I had Chelsea down to finish second in the Premier League. I felt that we would win it but Chelsea’s experience would see them finish above City again and that they would take us right down to the final game or two. However, Chelsea have been a shadow of [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

Man Utd v Stoke (Premier League 2011-12)

Published on 2012-01-31 08:41:31

Well, today is transfer deadline day and, as I type, I am watching Sky Sports News desperately trying to turn what has been a pretty boring transfer window into something exciting… “News just in! Joe Bloggs has signed for the Dog & Duck for a fee reported to be around two pints of lager and [...]The Red Devil - A Manchester United and Football Blog > read more

De Gea Signs for United

Published on 2011-06-29 05:31:33

United have just confirmed the signing of Spain’s Under 21 goalkeeper, David de Gea (20), from Atletico Madrid on a five year deal. The fee is believed to be around £18million. Following the disasters we experienced when trying to replace Schm > read more

Tough Start for United

Published on 2011-06-17 04:08:27

The Premier League released the fixture list for the 2011/12 season today and it’s and interesting opening for Manchester United with West Brom at the Hawthorns for our opener. Our next two games are both at Old Trafford and are against Tottenh > read more

Phil Jones – First Confirmed Signing

Published on 2011-06-13 18:39:40

Since my last post about Ashley Young potentially becoming our first signing of the close-season, I have been watching the situation closely and whilst it does appear that we will be getting Ashley Young, our first signing came as something slightly > read more

Ashley Young: A Done Deal?

Published on 2011-06-08 03:31:54

I’m always wary of writing about transfer speculation because if I wrote about every player we’re linked with each summer then I would probably find myself writing ten articles a day, most of which would prove to be complete tosh by the t > read more

How To Win Friends etc etc

Published on 2011-06-07 06:08:55

I don’t normally focus on players at other clubs on this site but I felt that an exception had to be made for Carlos Tevez who does, of course, have some connection with Manchester United because he’s been at it again. Moaning, that is. O > read more

Season Review 2010/11

Published on 2011-06-03 03:57:58

Yes, I know it’s a bit late in the day for a season review but it’s a post that I wanted to make during the time that I was disconnected from the net (following my recent house move) and it has been bugging me that I didn’t round th > read more

Scholes Retires

Published on 2011-05-31 07:39:35

Having recently moved house and all the hassle that this entails (being without an internet connection for almost two weeks being by far the worst), I have been looking forward to the close season as it is usually a quiet time to write all those arti > read more

Barcelona 3 – 1 Manchester United

Published on 2011-05-29 07:45:19

This match started in much the same way as the Rome final of 2009 where we played at a high tempo for the opening ten minutes which Barcelona failed to live with and for those few minutes, I thought we might be on the verge of causing an upset here. > read more

Barcelona v Manchester United CL Final

Published on 2011-05-28 03:40:03

Stitched inside the badge of every Manchester United shirt is a word and it says simply: “Believe”. Before a ball was even kicked in this tournament this season, Barcelona were installed as favourites whilst we have fluctuated around thir > read more

Symmetry

Published on 2011-05-27 06:25:07

Like every other Manchester United fan (and, I’m sure, Barcelona fan) I am waiting for tomorrow to arrive with the same kind of anticipation that was once reserved for Christmas Day. In the meantime, I am having to get my football fix from watc > read more

Manchester United 4-2 Blackpool

Published on 2011-05-23 05:21:44

Fergie stayed true to his word for this one and fielded a very strong team which got the job done although I must admit that for long periods, I did believe that my bet of Blackpool +1.0 in the Asian Handicap was going to run out a winner. Whilst Uni > read more

Manchester United v Blackpool

Published on 2011-05-21 05:24:56

This is a funny old game to finish the season on. We, of course, go into the game having already wrapped up the title and probably now have our eyes more firmly focused on the Champions League final next weekend but with Blackpool very much involved > read more

Not Dead – Just Moved

Published on 2011-05-20 04:45:25

Just thought I’d drop a post in here to say that I haven’t dropped off the edge of the world or anything, I have just moved house which has left me bereft of time for much of the last couple of weeks and, equally importantly, bereft of an > read more

No Trophy this Saturday

Published on 2011-05-10 16:02:07

The Premier League have announced that even if we get the point necessary to secure the Premier League title when we face Blackburn this Saturday, we won’t be presented with the Premier League trophy until after the final game of the season aga > read more

Manchester United 2 – 1 Chelsea

Published on 2011-05-09 16:58:28

The nonsense goes on about how good (or otherwise) this United side are but our victory over Chelsea yesterday puts us on the brink of a record 19th top-flight league title. Just one more point from our next two games will confirm it but unless Chels > read more

Manchester United v Chelsea

Published on 2011-05-08 03:19:21

Well, if this is squeaky bum time then Old Trafford is likely to resemble a scene from “Blazing Saddles” come 4.10pm this afternoon. This is one humongous game. After thirty-five games played and still two more to come after this, the des > read more

Manchester United 4 – 1 Schalke

Published on 2011-05-06 16:16:43

Yes, so I’m two days late with the review – things have been a little hectic here of late (moving house, amongst other things!) I don’t care, I was determined to write something about this match because it was just so bloody good. I > read more

Congratulations Manchester United

Published on 2011-05-04 17:38:21

Just wanted to put in a post tonight about us getting to our third Champions League final in the last four years. Apologies for not putting up a pre-match preview but certain domestic matters needed to be attended to today and I simply could not get > read more

Not Good

Published on 2011-05-02 06:38:37

As us Manchester United reflect on the fact that the worst possible scenario over the weekend has come to fruition, it all has an air of inevitability about it to me, especially after Chelsea were again the beneficiaries of the doubt when it came to > read more

Arsenal v Manchester United

Published on 2011-05-01 05:05:06

The first of two fixtures that could determine the destination of the title begin this afternoon as we make our way to the Emirates to play what could well have been a title decider but, due to Arsenal’s woeful form and inability to hold a lead > read more

The Tiny Difference Between Success and Failure (Part 2)

Published on 2011-04-30 18:23:37

What was I saying yesterday about the tiny margins between success and failure? In the end, I didn’t actually watch the match between Chelsea and Tottenham last evening, preferring instead to go out for an Indian with my family and I’m gl > read more

The Tiny Difference Between Success and Failure

Published on 2011-04-30 02:14:43

As I write this a massive couple of fixtures between four of the top five teams in the league are yet to be played and looking at them makes me realise just how fine the line is between success and failure in this game. Today Chelsea play Tottenham a > read more

Semi-Farcicals

Published on 2011-04-28 04:36:01

I was going to write a post yesterday about our Semi-Final first leg against Schalke but, having said that I didn’t know what to make of it before the match, I found that I was still scratching my head about it after the match and so I thought > read more

Schalke v Manchester United

Published on 2011-04-26 05:56:22

This is one of those games that comes around now and again in the Champions League where I really don’t know what to make of it because we’re up against something of an unknown quantity who have been going great guns in this competition w > read more

And Then There Were Two

Published on 2011-04-24 16:30:09

Yesterday’s match against Everton was kind of how I expected it to be – I had a feeling we would dominate but given our mini-goal drought in the last couple of games, I had a worry that we wouldn’t be able to make it count. That we > read more

Manchester United v Everton

Published on 2011-04-22 17:03:06

After this game, we have a momentus string of fixtures against the likes of Schalke (twice), Arsenal and Chelsea but it is this one that has been giving me the sleepness nights of late because I believe it is key to our Premier League as we enter the > read more

Arsenal Don’t Want It But Chelsea Do

Published on 2011-04-21 06:56:08

After taking a 3-1 lead and taking a 1-0 “last-minute” lead against Liverpool in the previous game only to blow them both, combined with the recent draws against the likes of Sunderland, Blackburn and WBA, I can only conclude that Arsenal > read more

Weirdest Scoreline in the Premier League

Published on 2011-04-20 06:26:26

I’m in shock. I still can’t believe that a game featuring Newcastle and Manchester United completely failed to produce a single goal. I must admit that when I saw the team that Fergie went for last night, I was absolutely certain that the > read more

Newcastle v Manchester United

Published on 2011-04-19 04:03:26

Well, this one should be interesting! After the cat and mouse affairs we’ve witnessed against Chelsea and City in the cup competitions in recent weeks, I think  this one could be an opportunity for United to cut loose a bit and get into a game > read more

A Crazy Weekend for United

Published on 2011-04-18 05:50:27

After Saturday’s depressing performance and defeat in the FA Cup semi final against Manchester City, we needed something to pick us back up and yesterday’s draw between Arsenal and Liverpool did the job nicely. With the scores locked at 0 > read more

Manchester City v Manchester United FA Cup Semi-Final

Published on 2011-04-16 04:45:37

I’m already getting tired and a little bit conscious of the number of times I have used the words “massive game” of late but there’s no doubting that this is indeed another massive game for both teams. For City, this is their > read more

The Morning After

Published on 2011-04-13 05:39:05

I’m not ashamed to admit that I awoke with that groggy feeling that comes from over-indulgence of the alcoholic kind the night before this morning but this was soon tempered as I reflected on the events of last night as I believe that we finall > read more

Manchester United v Chelsea (Champions League)

Published on 2011-04-12 03:39:47

One phrase we’re all likely to be hearing and using quite a lot over the next six weeks or so is “this is a massive game” but this one really is, “a massive game”. It looks very much like the winner of this tie will be p > read more

Manchester United v Fulham

Published on 2011-04-09 05:24:11

It’s back to the nitty gritty of the Premier League this afternoon as we welcome back Mark Hughes and his Fulham side. It must be said that this fixture traditionally means three points for United and in some of our recent games at Old Trafford > read more

Is This a Good Idea?

Published on 2011-04-08 06:07:52

News reaches my ears that Gary Neville has been signed up by Sky Sports and will form part of their punditry team from next season. The United Legend was, obviously, not short of work offers once he announced his retirement earlier this season and Un > read more

Rooney Loses Appeal – Will Serve Two Match Ban

Published on 2011-04-07 04:28:29

News is just coming in that Wayne Rooney has lost his appeal against the two-match ban which was imposed following the West Ham Swearygate scandal. Most people seem to be in agreement that the original decision to ban Wayne Rooney was something of an > read more

What a Difference a Ref Makes

Published on 2011-04-07 04:18:21

I said before our game against Chelsea that games between the two sides tend to be close and the end result is often decided by a refereeing decision and so it proved last night after Chelsea were denied a pretty clear-cut penalty after Evra fouled R > read more

Chelsea v Manchester United (Champions League)

Published on 2011-04-06 04:35:48

Results over the weekend meant that while we strengthened our grip on the Premier League title, Chelsea all but relinquished their own grip on the trophy which they won last May and the Champions League probably now represents their only chance of si > read more

Ferdinand Trains Ahead of Chelsea Clash

Published on 2011-04-05 08:29:48

Some encouraging news is coming out today that Rio Ferdinand took part in training today after a two month injury lay-off and could start alongside Vidic in the centre of defence. If this is correct and Rio can keep himself fit for the remainder of t > read more

Rooney Hit with Two Match Ban

Published on 2011-04-04 13:12:34

If any further proof was needed that the people in charge of football are completely out of tune with the game then news that the FA have hit Wayne Rooney with a two match ban for his post-hat-trick “celebrations” will surely suffice. I w > read more

West Ham v Manchester United

Published on 2011-04-02 04:51:33

After a two week hiatus for the International break, the hopes were that we would come into this game with a pretty healthy squad but this doesn’t appear to be the case if Fergie’s comments at yesterday’s press conference is anythin > read more

Manchester United v Bolton

Published on 2011-03-19 06:13:34

Due to the International break, this is our last game for a couple of weeks and it’s probably just as well because we do appear to have something of an injury crisis going on at the moment, especially in defence with Rafael, Vidic, Ferdinand an > read more

Manchester United v Marseille

Published on 2011-03-15 09:18:16

The first leg of this tie was a largely dour affair which ended 0-0 which wasn’t a great result for either team. The lack of an away goal could prove costly for us and Marseille now know that a score draw will be enough to send them through thi > read more

Manchester United v Arsenal (FA Cup Quarter Final)

Published on 2011-03-11 15:50:59

It hasn’t been a great couple of weeks for either of these two sides as we’ve lost our last two league fixtures whilst Arsenal have also dropped valuable league points and were utterly destroyed by Barcelona in the Champions League. This > read more

Liverpool v Manchester United

Published on 2011-03-06 05:29:59

A massive game awaits us this afternoon as we finally come to the end of a tricky run of away fixtures. The defeat to Chelsea in our last game was a blow but with Arsenal dropping points yesterday, the situation could have been worse going into today > read more

Chelsea v Manchester United

Published on 2011-03-01 11:41:07

Very difficult to know what to make of this one. At any other stage in the last six or seven years, this would be a “title decider” but it’s looking very likely that they are out of the title race now no matter what happens in the f > read more

Wigan v Manchester United

Published on 2011-02-26 06:23:26

It’s away to Wigan today as Manchester United attempt to prove that we CAN win away from home! Our lead at the top of the table has now been cut to just one point with Arsenal beating Stoke the other day and with some big, big games coming up, > read more

Marseille v Manchester United

Published on 2011-02-23 10:27:10

United travel to Marseille with something of a depleted squad and, given that our away record so far this season hasn’t been great, this only adds to the concern. Marseille’s home record in their domestic league has been very good and the > read more

Manchester United v Crawley Town

Published on 2011-02-19 05:04:15

When non-league Crawley Town step onto the pitch against us this evening, it will only be the sixth time in FA Cup history that a non-league side has reached the FA Cup fifth round and that is as far as any have got – can Crawley become the fir > read more

Manchester United v Manchester City

Published on 2011-02-12 04:21:09

Unless they’re actually going to the match today, residents of Manchester would be well advised to stay indoors and catch up on those little jobs that may have been piling up for the last couple of months because I have a feeling this is going > read more

Wolves v Manchester United

Published on 2011-02-05 04:39:43

It’s top against bottom here this evening as we travel to Wolves looking to bag another three points. On paper, this should be a formality but nothing has been simple for United away from home so far this season and we have been given a couple > read more

Manchester United v Aston Villa

Published on 2011-02-01 03:57:04

For a team regularly pushing for a European spot, Aston Villa have had an unbelievably poor season so far and were even being mentioned amongst the relegation strugglers a few weeks ago. However, they have enjoyed a few decent results of late and hav > read more

Hosting Problems

Published on 2011-01-31 05:08:21

As some of you might have noticed, the site was completely down on Saturday and I was unable to write my usual pre-match analysis and prediction for the FA Cup match against Southampton. This was due to the server the site is on coming under attack f > read more

Blackpool v Manchester United

Published on 2011-01-25 04:35:58

This match is, of course, one of the matches that was postponed last month and after it has been played, we will have a much clearer picture of how exactly the league table stands as we will finally be on level games played with most of our title riv > read more

Manchester United v Birmingham

Published on 2011-01-22 04:46:19

Games between these two sides have been tight, low-scoring affairs over the last few seasons and it doesn’t seem to matter where the teams are in the leagueat the time of our meeting, they always seem to give us a tough match – as evidenc > read more

Tottenham v Manchester United

Published on 2011-01-16 04:10:55

Having watched Manchester City go to the top of the table yesterday, it is easy to look at the table and see that we are just a point behind with three games in hand but when you consider that those three games are all away games (this one, Chelsea a > read more

Manchester United v Liverpool (FA Cup 3rd Round)

Published on 2011-01-09 05:43:14

Ever since coming close to winning the Premier League a couple of seasons ago, it has basically been all downhill for Liverpool as they have seemingly stumbled from disaster to disaster ever since. The latest incident came just a couple of days ago a > read more

Manchester United v Stoke

Published on 2011-01-04 06:03:48

We rode our luck in our win over West Brom at the weekend and so a more convincing performance will be expected when we play Stoke at Old Trafford this evening. The good news is that our home record so far this season is second to none and our record > read more

West Brom v Manchester United

Published on 2011-01-01 06:02:55

Happy New Year everyone! Apologies for the lateness of this post, coming, as it does, just one hour before kick-off but I got well into the New Year spirit last night and, if I remember correctly, quite a lot of spirits got into me, too! Anyway, let& > read more

Birmingham v Manchester United

Published on 2010-12-28 06:09:26

Manchester United games are like buses at the moment – you wait two weeks then two turn up at once! Anyway, we go into this game in a healthy position at the top of the league and a win will stretch our lead still further for a day or so at lea > read more

Manchester United v Sunderland

Published on 2010-12-26 04:32:54

After what seems like an age since our last match, Manchester United finally resume their Premier League campaign against Sunderland this afternoon. Whilst we generally don’t lose against Sunderland, games between these two sides tend to be clo > read more