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I don’t know if anyone has noticed – or if anyone cares -  but our blue bitter half has invested a significant amount on yet another false dawn.
Or a set of new players, depending on your point of view.
Still, there’s nothing like a set of summer sighnings (sic) to raise the collective pulse; even [...]

Paul Scholes interview

There’s a wonderful article by Jonathan Northcroft in today’s Times Online. It’s a little piece on our little Paul.
Best quote is from Ryan Giggs:
“From day one, Scholesy played as if he were playing on the street. And he was deceptive. You’d think, ‘He’s only small…’ Then he’d boot you.”
Read the full article here.

A match up

Things have been a little more bearable this past fortnight, with the Asian Cup dishing out some much needed football.
The Quarter-Finals begin tonight with the Japanese out for revenge against the Australians. That match will be followed by the Mother of All Underdogs, Iraq, taking on one of the co-hosts, Vietnam.

22 days to go

United defeated FC Seoul last night in the second of their four match Far East tour.
Ronaldo, Eagles, Rooney and Evra were the goal-scorers in a comfortable 4-0 win. The team:
Van der Sar (Kuszczak h-t); Bardsley (Simpson h-t), Ferdinand, Vidic (Evans 76), Silvestre; Eagles, Carrick (Scholes h-t), O’Shea, Evra; Ronaldo (Smith h-t), Rooney (Giggs h-t).  Unused [...]

25 days to go

In case you missed it, United drew 2-2 against Urawa Red Diamonds in last night’s pre-season friendly. The goal-scorers were Darren “I will not be The Forgotten Man” Fletcher and Cristiano Ronaldo.
I can’t comment on the game as our local cable operator mysteriously, and unilaterally, removed MUTV from its programming.
Oh, and another thing: Rooney sported [...]

Thank you, Lord

and thank you, Niall, for the £5.5m.
It is always sad to see an ex-trainee leave the Club, and the transfer of Kieran Richardson to Sunderland is no exception. Richardson made only a handful of appearances for United, and it could be argued that his potential – a potential appreciated by Bryan Robson at WBA, [...]

Greetings!

Welcome back, my fellow Reds, to the show that never ends.
Forget about what happened last season; it starts all over again tomorrow night as Urawa Red Diamonds host Manchester United at the start of what will no doubt be known as Ryan Giggs’ Season Swan-Song. Sir Alex brings to Japan two of his newly acquired [...]