Fergie faces biggest challenge
City and United fans alike will have needed pinching on Monday to see whether Sunday’s game was indeed real live football or some dream/nightmare (delete as appropriate). City’s threat to United was clear at the start of the season. No side that spends so much money will fail to compete at the top end of...
Fergie looking after the present and future
For much of the 90 minutes at Anfield on Saturday there was a feeling of unfulfilled excitement and expectation. The game, billed as the best in the World 24 hours earlier by sir Alex Ferguson, proved to be one of those occasions where passions run high, but nerves and a failure to get a grip...
De Gea accepts press criticism
Despite being just 20 years of age David De Gea has shown maturity in recent weeks that bodes well for his future at Old Trafford. The former Atletico Madrid keeper has not had the best of starts to his time at Old Trafford. In the first live football of the season, the Community Shield, he...
Fuck it all, doom merchants (that’s you by the way)!
Right. So that’s me back from international duty – time to catch up on all that’s been happening while I’ve been away not paying too much attention to events concerning our beautiful game. Let’s see. Our clubs are out of Europ...
The kids have given Fergie fresh impetus
An interesting statistic was highlighted over the weekend when comparing the United team that finished last season against Barcelona and the one that battered Arsenal into submission in Sunday. The team that went down at Wembley back in May had an average age of 29, with 40-year-old Edwin Van Der Sar and 39-year-old Ryan Giggs...
The next generation at Old Trafford
Manchester United will be striving to go one better and win the Champions League next season, but they are a transformed side that has lost a lot of experience during the summer. The key trio of Paul Scholes, Edwin van der Sar and Gary Neville have all retired from Old Trafford while Sir Alex Ferguson...
Quick Release: An SPL Released Players XI
Inside Left takes a look through the transfer list and has a go at putting together a team made up of players released from their clubs at the end (or during the course) of last season. GK – Mark Howard (Aberdeen, now: unattached) Pretty obvious ...
And we’re off!
Well, almost. Yes, time to put away the bucket and spades, the After Sun, sombrero and sangria. Send mother up the stairs with the stepladder to fetch to scarves, rosettes and rattles down from yon attic. Polish the kids, straighten the flat caps and s...
‘Tis the season to be jolly ..
.. or more importantly, t’is the season to be nice towards referees, nice to people of all religions and time to stop worrying about the money because, well, frankly there isn’t too much of that around these days. Unless you’re …...
Is Nani’s time in Manchester coming to an end?
Nani is one of those footballers who never seems to be too happy for too long. In that respect, he fits very much into the same mould as Cristiano Ronaldo, but sadly for the United winger, he doesn’t exactly have the same level of talent or goal scoring touch as the Real Madrid star. With...
Ashley the leader of the young guns
Ashley Young fits the profile of most of Manchester United’s recent big-money purchases. He is young and proven in the Premier League, much like Michael Carrick, Antonio Valencia, Dimitar Berbatov, Chris Smalling and Phil Jones were when they arrived at Old Trafford. Sir Alex Ferguson likes to buy players before they reach their peak, in...
United face early test
Having admitted that before the arrival of Jose Mourinho, he had not really been a football coach able to get the best out of his side at the start of the new domestic season, Sir Alex Ferguson surely now knows that in this day and age, even with Mourinho gone, he is still facing an...
