The Morning After The Night Before: Fall-Out From The Manchester Derby
If the Premier League excels at any one thing, then that thing must be spectacle of the type that we saw at the City of Manchester Stadium last night. The...
Posts Tagged: "Manchester United"
Ashley Young Is But The Tip Of The Iceberg In Footballs Culture Of Cheating
So, Ashley Young took a tumble for Manchester United against Aston Villa yesterday afternoon and now the whole man and his or her dog is up in arms about it....
Time To Draw A Line Under The Suarez Incidents
The football was always going to be overshadowed on Saturday lunchtime. It has been that sort of a season. At least, though, another gut-wrenching weekend of tribalism and mud-slinging, some...
The Bizarre Rituals Of Mutual Loathing
The FA Cup may well be the oldest football cup competition in the world – a fact that television viewers will doubtlessly be reminded of around three hundred times over...
Match Of The Week: Manchester United 2-3 Blackburn Rovers
The Premier League title race, we have been told repeatedly over the last couple of weeks or so, is back on. Since getting knocked out of the Champions League by...
Ferguson, Villas-Boas & “Keeping It Simple”
“Football is a simple game” were four words of Graham Taylor’s wisdom when he was managing Watford up the Football League in the late 70s and early 80s. And his...
City & United Fall From The Champions League
Anyone taking a bet at the start of the season would not have been able to predict how this would all end up. Manchester City and Manchester United kissed goodbye...
City & United’s Misadventures In Europe Do Not Constitute A Crisis
Both of the Manchester clubs came unstuck in Europe last night. The Champions League campaigns of both Manchester City and Manchester United was certainly been amongst the biggest curios of...
Subbuteo, Manchester United & Me
I just bought an A4 print of a 1992-1994 Manchester United home kit Subbuteo player. I’m not a massive fan of Subbuteo, but there’s something about the aesthetic of it...
Match Of The Week: Aldershot Town 0-3 Manchester United
Perhaps it is all a matter of perception. For clubs at one end of the spectrum, a home defeat at the hands of a local rival may be enough to...
The Balance Of Power In Manchester Hangs In The Balance
Well, none of us expected that and, such was the imperiousness of Manchester City’s performance at Old Trafford this afternoon the thesauruses have already been wrung dry as the internet...
The Most Important Manchester Derby Since The Last One
It’s been a big week for Manchester. First of all the Manchester Egg was, thanks to the Food and Drink festival, brought to the wider audience it deserved, smashing out...
Liverpool & Manchester United Reach Stalemate, For Now
Nature abhors a vacuum, and in the absence of anything season-defining coming from yesterday’s match between Liverpool and Manchester United, the post-match speculation has largely centred upon claims made by...
The Rooney Storm In A Tea Cup
It was a display which fell quite firmly into the category of “Typical England”. What should – and can could easily have been – a comfortable win in Montenegro last...
Football, Television And Sir Alex
Perhaps we are now so used to the gamesmanship of Sir Alex Ferguson in press conferences and interviews that we now look for subliminal messages in everything he says without...
Match Of The Week: Manchester United 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur
Old Trafford has a swaggering confidence about it this evening. A new sponsorship deal with a package delivery company will be bringing an eyebrow-raising amount of money into the club...
The Twohundredpercent Pre-Season Previews: Manchester United
Seldom, in recent years, has the gap between the Premier League and Champions League titles seemed so great. In the minds of some, Manchester United’s trip to Wembley for the...
The 2011 UEFA Champions League Final: Barcelona 3-1 Manchester United
Manchester United and Barcelona at Wembley, then. These are two clubs whose European histories have become interwoven with each other as well as this venue. When Manchester United became the...
Barcelona vs Manchester United: A Preview, Of Sorts
Tomorrow evening at Wembley, in front of what will probably be described as “a world-wide television audience of seventeen billion people”, Manchester United play Barcelona in the final of the...
Video Special: Six Great FA Cup Finals
It may have escaped your attention, but it is the FA Cup final on Saturday. Manchester City and Stoke City will take the pitch at Wembley on Saturday afternoon, with...