The Liverpool Crisis: Where Are The Lords And Masters?
As the week has worn on, the situation concerning the ownership of Liverpool Football Club has descended into chaos. With each passing day, the tug of war for the ownership...
Posts Tagged: "Manchester United"
Clubs In Crisis II – Sheffield Wednesday, Portsmouth & Manchester United Redux
Mark Murphy is back with the second of his round-ups on football clubs that have been hitting the headlines for the wrong reason. ...
Match Of The Week: Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool
Manchester United vs Liverpool. Aon vs Standard Chartered. Nike vs Adidas. The warm, sticky smell of testosterone and hubris hangs large in the air this afternoon for this match, but...
The Premier League 2010/11 Previews Part 12: Manchester United – Write Them Off At Your Peril
On Sunday afternoon, Manchester United lifted the first trophy of the new season after having beaten Chelsea in the Community Shield at Wembley. For all the talk of the insignificance...
Conflicting Season Ticket Stories At Old Trafford
A most curious little article appealed on the Daily Telegraph’s website on Thursday, stating that the Green & Gold protest against the Glazer family’s ownership of the club had failed...
The Manchester United War Of Words
Never has a football club’s “official wine partner” seemed so important. And while you’re pondering the concept of a football club having a wine partner at all (what next, “prawn...
How Ben Foster Highlights The Farce Of The Loan System
Ben Foster has made news today by becoming the first player to openly criticise the Manchester United fans’ Green and Gold campaign to oust the Glazer family. However, something more...
The Title That No-One Wants To Win?
English football season has had more than its fair share of madness this season, but the race for the title is starting to give off a hint of being the...
“England” Out Of Champions League, Apparently
So it has come to pass. For the first time in seven years, there will be no English clubs in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. The manner of the...
Manchester United 1948-1992: The Busby Dynasty
We have a little break from the usual this morning, with a downloadable, four-part audio cassette produced by the BBC in the early 1990s, just before the death of Sir...
David Beckham, The Green & Gold
The Champions League match between Manchester United and Milan had been punctuated by what are now starting to become familiar images. The green and gold gold scarves and the “Love...
The Glazer Protests: Where Do They Go From Here?
The Manchester United supporters that wore gold and green scarves for the League Cup semi-final on Wednesday night were protesting, but it may be too late for them to have...
Football & The Media – There’s Something In The Air
The game is starting to smell rotten from the inside out, and this smell is starting to become all-pervasive to the extent that even those that have been trying to...
Match Of The Midweek: Manchester City 2-1 Manchester United
There are so many threads to tie together with this match that it is almost impossible to keep track of them all and the feeling, for the first time in...
Video Of The Week: Manchester United vs West Bromwich Albion – December 1978
This week's Video Of The Week goes back, as we are wont to do, to the late 1970s, but this isn't any old match. It's the match Manchester United and...
Manchester United & The Need For Permanent Success
Manchester United are considering a bond issue to cover the ongoing issue of servicing their massive debt. Has the sould of Old Trafford already left the building, though? ...
Match Of The Week 2: Manchester United 0-1 Leeds United
Manchester United were knocked out of the FA Cup by League One Leeds United this afternoon. Could the time be right for a club from outside of the top two...
2009 – Year Of Missing The Point
2009 was the year in which the wheels constantly threatened to come completely off football's financial wagon without actually doing so. Mark Murphy takes a look over the great and...
Might The Fab Four Become The Super Seven?
As the Premier League reaches the half-way point in its season, Mark Siglioccolo takes a look into his crystal ball and wonders whether the days of Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool...
Match Of The Week: Fulham 3-0 Manchester United
Fulham brushed aside Manchester United in the Premier League yesterday afternoon with a performance which suggested that 2010 could be a very good year for the London club. Roy Hodgson...