Newcastle vs United

I’m not too sure that tonight’s match will be as straight-forward as some have suggested. Despite the fact (*snigger*) that Sir Alex Ferguson will be able to call on a fresh set of legs in midfield and up front, I see United making a game of this – in the sense of letting Newcastle get [...]

This Carling, Coca-Cola, Worthington League Cup game this Sunday

Right, here’s my attempt at reading Sir Alex Ferguson’s mind. This is the team that will line up against Spurs:
Tevez Wellbeck
Nani      Scholes Anderson     Gibson
O’Shea Vidic (or Ferdinand) Evans Raphael Neville
Foster
Subs: Kuszczak, Rooney, Fabio, Giggs, Fletcher, Possebon, Park
Good luck, Boys.
Postscript:
With Raphael da Silva ruled out for a month, Neville is likely to play at right-back. Given [...]

Cup Fever

Cup fever is back!
The weekend’s draw for the 3rd Round of the FA Cup pits United against Division 2 (old format) strugglers (same story) Southampton. The game is re-scheduled for Sunday, 4th January and will be United’s first game of 2009.
United have a habit of being on the receiving end of giant-killing exploits in the [...]

United v Arsenal

Journalists started noticing Cristiano Ronaldo near the end of 2007, when, after scoring 6 goals in three games, the likes of James Mossop began talking of the Portuguese as potential recipient of the Footballer of the Year award. While Mossop, keen to make up for lost time (not to mention credibility), was ultimately proved correct, [...]

Crewe v United (preview)

With over a dozen fringe players on loan, United begin their defence of the League Cup – is that what it’s called now? – with a formidable squad for the game versus Crewe.
The squad announced for tomorrow’s 3rd Round tie is anything but modest:
Kuszczak, Heaton, Lee, Shawcross, Brown, Silvestre, Heinze, Gray, Solskjaer, Marsh, D Jones, [...]

United v Celtic (preview)

Four wins on the spin, top of the Premiership, and what do we have next here? Three points to start this season’s Champions League campaign? Well, that’s the consensus in the media: no-one is giving the Scottish champions much of a chance. Roy Keane and Pat Crerand are but two who have staked their mortgages [...]

Watford v United (preview)

Ben Foster is deprived the opportunity of facing the Premiership’s top scorers due to archaic rules governing loan agreements. They don’t have this peculiar exclusion in Serie A, for example. Arsene Wenger was right when he voiced his oppposition to such bans, saying that a professional on loan should not be undermined by any [...]

Charlton v United (preview)

United face Charlton at The Valley this evening (Thursday morning, Singapore time) with the focus falling on Cristiano Ronaldo’s reception in front of a hostile English crowd. Quite how Charlton fans can be classified as hostile is beyond me, but there you go.
With Rooney and The Ginger One both suspended, the team will see either [...]