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 [...]
August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »
Manchester United are one of the most dominant footballing forces in the world. Since the Premier League began back in the 1992-93 season, The Red Devils have won the prestigious title a total of 12 times – more than any other Premiership club. Another impressive statistic is the fact that they’ve never finished outside the [...]
August 26th, 2011 | Posted in Uncategorized | Read More »
Sir Alex Ferguson – the Manchester United manager – has recently restructured his prolific team into a more youthful one. In the current summer transfer window of 2011 Ferguson has acquired the talents of 19-year-old Phil Jones from Blackburn Rovers, and 20-year-old Spanish national David de Gea. Since joining Manchester United Jones has already amazed [...]
August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in News | Read More »
Last week it was Nani, this week is was Young, Man United’s rapid wide men have put a marker down for the rest of the season. The Red Devils showed last season that they were capable of scrapping for wins and grinding out points and so it has proved again in the opening two matches [...]
August 15th, 2011 | Posted in News | Read More »
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 [...]
August 12th, 2011 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »
It you asked someone to compare the performances of Carlos Tevez and Dimitar Berbatov last season you would struggle to believe they both score the same amount of league goals. Tevez was seen as the driving force behind City’s successful quest for Champions League football while Berbatov became something of a maligned figure, especially in [...]
August 4th, 2011 | Posted in Transfers | Read More »