Month: November 2010

With no time to really recover, Manchester United head to Villa Park for the early lunchtime kick-off on Saturday to face Aston Villa in the Barclays Premier League. Following their nil-nil draw with Manchester City on Wednesday, United need to get a positive result from this match with Villa to keep pace with the other teams at the top of the league, but this was their bogey team from last year.

Yesterday marked an important day for sportswear company Nike as they launched their first world football store with Manchester United playing a predominant role. The store which has been heavily…

Yesterday evening the Football Association announced that they had bought ‘violent conduct’ about Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton (or ‘37542’ as he was briefly referred to as for a short stretch…

Castrol Rankings put Tottenham’s Rafael Van der Vaart at an impressive 7th place – that is to say, over the last 12 months, Van der Vaart has been the 7th…

As you may or may not be aware, Chelsea took the executive decision to sack their erstwhile assistant coach of the past two-and-a-half managerially turbulent years, Ray Wilkins, yesterday afternoon….

Ian Holloway’s impassioned defence of his team selection for the game with Aston Villa is reminiscent of Mick McCarthy’s staunch belief that he was right to do the same thing versus Manchester United last year. Both managers should have the right to manage as they see fit and at the end of the year be accountable for their decisions

Welcome to a new feature in which I’ll look at the transfer rumours swirling around the division, trying to distinguish the possible from the ridiculous. Joe Allen (Swansea) to West…

Shown in this video are behind the scenes of when the players of Barcelona dress-up for a team-photo and then go back to the dressing room to put their kits on and go back to the ground for the second photo:

You’d be crazy to miss the brand new episode of 3 Up Front – so tune in now! Host Adrian Clarke, along with prickly pundits Iain Spragg and Iain Macintosh, debate a…

You’d be crazy to miss the brand new episode of 3 Up Front – so tune in now! Host Adrian Clarke, along with prickly pundits Iain Spragg and Iain Macintosh, debate a…

There were many positives to take from Manchester United’s disciplined performance in their goalless draw against City, but Sir Alex Ferguson has been left with an unneeded headache. A virus has plagued most of the squad for over a week now, so it was always going to be a big ask for them to put in an all-out, end-to-end performance against an improving City team, but in the end, United still showed that they are still the class team in Manchester.

‘Twas only a little over nine months ago that Wolverhampton Wanderers were handed a suspended £25,000 fine by the Premier League board for fielding what they deemed to be a…

Two very different things. Manchester United is a football club and “Drop it like it’s hot” is a song by Snoop Dogg. What relation could there possibly. Well, how about…

The race for this year’s Barclay’s Premier League title looks like going right to the wire with none of the pre-season favourites able to pull away from the chasing pack…

José Mourinho’s ambition of doing the treble in Spain is still on course after Wednesday night’s 5-1 annihilation of Murcia in the second leg of the Copa del Rey. However,…

It’s now officially over. The issue that has gripped the Spanish nation for the past few weeks has come to an end. El Clásico has finally been given a date…

‘Tepid’, ‘stale’, ‘ugly’, ‘dreary’ and ‘utterly devoid of anything approaching creativity, inspiration or incident’ – just a refined selection of what the country’s leading back-page quota-fillers are calling last night’s…

It’s a move that could have far-reaching effects for Spanish football. Atlético Madrid this week became the first Primera Liga club to formally ask the Liga de Fútbol Profesional if…

For some reason, the concept of goal line technology, essentially a NON-ISSUE, now threatens the very the integrity, if not the very innocence of football. Platini, the incorrigible leader of…

In the 157th installment of the Manchester Derby, United and City could not be separate as they drew 0-0 at the City of Manchester Stadium. The result not only keeps United in second place in the Barclays Premier League table, but it also extends their unbeaten streak to 25 matches.

After initially allowing Wayne Rooney to spend a fortnight or so recuperating from his ‘non-existant’ ankle injury under the expert supervision of the poolside medical team (who, rather strangely, also…

Between the years 1989 and 2002, Manchester United comprehensively dominated local rivals City when it came to the derby ties betwixt the two clubs. After hammering United 5-1 at Maine…

Derby might just be the real deal While Derby’s recent form has been excellent, this win away at Portman Road was as impressive as any of their results. Hard now…

If this is the calm before the storm, then it is going to be quite some storm when River Plate meet Boca Juniors next Tuesday evening. The derby widely regarded…

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson confirms he has not decided who is in the squad for the near trip to Manchester City. The Red Devils travel to the City…

It’s not all doom and gloom for Wayne Rooney – with his club recovering in form, sponsors standing by him (more importantly Coleen standing by him), a peaceful week to…

Manchester United’s Reserve team manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has decided to accept the offer to become manager of Molde, and this is the right move for him to take in his young managerial career. After a long battle with a knee injury brought his magnificent playing career to a premature end, Solskjaer stepped right into a coaching role at United, because Sir Alex Ferguson was always aware of his uncanny leadership abilities to make it as a manager in the modern game.