Tag: Manchester United

The Have Nots Weekend In The Premier League

The Have Nots Weekend In The Premier League

Posted by | Dec 6, 2015 | , | 0 |

It is, perhaps, a reflection upon the uneven times in which we live that, upon the blowing of the final whistle at Stamford Bridge, most eyes were trained on the home dugout rather than the away one. This season has been a strong one for the lovers of schädenfreude, and perhaps, in a Premier League context at least, we may end up looking back upon this particular final whistle as the one at which it reached its peak. In his post-match interviews, there was a different sense to the Jose Mourinho in post-match interviews. The appeal for a penalty...

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1985/86 Week: Manchester United & Ron Atkinson’s Perfect Ten

1985/86 Week: Manchester United & Ron Atkinson’s Perfect Ten

Posted by | Nov 22, 2015 | , , | 0 |

The summer of 1985 was not much of a time for optimism in English football, but if there was one club that had a reason to feel a little sanguine, it was Manchester United. Still the most-supported club in England despite not having lifted the Football League Championship since 1967, they had ended the previous season winning the FA Cup for the second time in three years, a sign that the club’s fortunes were changing for the better for the first time in almost two decades. And for a while, throughout the tail end of the summer and the...

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Algernon Martial: Built Up, Knocked Down… Repeat (Every Nanosecond)

Algernon Martial: Built Up, Knocked Down… Repeat (Every Nanosecond)

Posted by | Sep 14, 2015 | , | 0 |

It used to be said that there were sections of the press who liked nothing more than to “build ’em up and knock ’em down.” We seem to live in a more sophisticated age than that, now, but only in so far as that the up-building and down-knocking processes engaged by the media have become so frantic and chaotic that it can be impossible in any one moment to be able to fully process whether any particular individual or institution is supposed to be lauded or despised. But what happens when a football club – and not just any...

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Saturday Evening Live! Manchester United vs Liverpool

Saturday Evening Live! Manchester United vs Liverpool

Posted by | Sep 12, 2015 | , | 1 |

Good afternoon, sports fans! And welcome to our live-blog on this early season clash of the titans, between Manchester United and Liverpool. Actually, you know, all is not quite well in the House of Trafford and the House of Anfield, at present. Manchester United’s end of transfer window activity had the hint of a single father in a toy shop at ten to five on Christmas Eve about it, performances have been sluggish even before defeat in their last match against Swansea City, and Louis Van Gaal had to say “I am not a dictator” at a press conference...

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Sunday Night At The Football Palladium 3: Manchester United vs Liverpool, April 1968

Sunday Night At The Football Palladium 3: Manchester United vs Liverpool, April 1968

Posted by | Aug 2, 2015 | , | 0 |

Good evening, football fans. This evening’s featured match comes from the First Division of the Football League on the sixth of April 1968. Manchester United are chasing a League Championship and European Cup double, and with eight games of the season left to play, any of they, Manchester City, Liverpool or Leeds United could still achieve the former of these goals. With this in mind, the Match Of The Day cameras travelled north to cover the critical match between Manchester United and Liverpool. Commentary comes from the squawkmeister general, David Coleman.   You can follow Twohundredpercent on Twitter by...

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