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Does Neville Deserve His First Team Place?

Last March, United took a big step towards winning the title, thrashing Bolton 4-1 at Old Trafford. Rooney and Park both got two goals, with Ronaldo playing a blinder. Little did we know that this day would also be the last time Gary Neville would play for us that season, missing the remaining seven league [...]

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VIDEO: From The Crowd vs Boro

Celebration of Tevez’s first incredible goal Celebration of Tevez’s second goal, United’s fourth “Stand Up For The Champions”

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United Look Absolutely Terrifying

As the final whistle blew at Old Trafford today, all I could think was “Thank fuck I support this team.” Based on today’s performance, I’d be absolutely shitting myself if I was following any other team and had watched United play today. As I wrote about last week, the myth of Rooney and Tevez has [...]

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Finally, Some Good News Concerning Injuries

As I wrote about earlier this week, United have had a ridiculous time with injuries so far this season. Whilst we’ve had fighting talk from several players this week, the injuries have certainly been a concern to me. “The manager has chopped and changed this season already, whether that be due to injuries, or suspensions [...]

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Can We Win The Impossible Treble Again?

Back in 1977, Docherty’s United finished sixth in the table, some ten points behind league champions, Liverpool. It was therefore predicted to be a very one sided FA Cup final when the North West rivals walked out at Wembley in front of the 100,000 crowd. Liverpool were looking good to win The Treble, and pushing [...]

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The Magic Of Rooney’s Birthday

Over four years ago, I remember watching North West tonight and watching a group of lads kicking a football around on a concrete playground. The reporter was saying that one of those lads was tipped to play for his country in a friendly against Australia the following day. He was built like a man, powering [...]

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Republik of Mancunia Clothing

The official United mag have got in touch, so you will be seeing an ad from this very site in the next edition of “Inside United”, which is pretty exciting. I started up the shop after buying a t-shirt from one of the fellas outside Lou Macari’s chippie. It was the League Cup semi-final a [...]

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United’s Injury Joke

Moments before kick off, it was announced that Evra picked up an injury, and has been ruled out of United’s Champions League match against Dynamo Kiev. Yesterday, Paul Scholes was added to the injury list, giving Ferguson time to rethink his midfield. John O’Shea, who has just returned from injury himself, was set to play [...]

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Scholes Out, What Now For Our Midfield?

United have topped the injury lists all season so far, with our returning casualties having their space on the sidelined filled by newly crocked players. I thought we might have been pushing our luck a tad at the weekend when Scholes and Anderson started in the centre of midfield, alongside wingers Giggs and Nani. It [...]

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Is Now The Time To Capture Berbatov?

It might have been Berbatov’s scoring record in the Bundesliga which first drew your attention to the player, or possibly you took note of the striker when his side, Bayer Leverkusen, knocked us out of the Champions League on goal difference in 2002. For most United fans, it was his snub in the summer of [...]

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Ronaldinho Rumours Resurface: Do we want him?

Back in 2003, when United looked set to sign Ronaldinho, we were met with disappointment when the twenty three year old signed for Barca at the last minute. Despite our attempts to lure him to Manchester, offering out of favour keeper Barthez as part of the deal to PSG, he opted to put pen to [...]

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The Biggest Hypocrite in English Football

My write up on Liverpool’s lucky result on Saturday, in reference to our “luckiest team in the Premiership” title, caused quite a stink with the dippers. If the comments I deleted are anything to go by, to hate Liverpool and show amazement at a referee who so blatantly threw a match, means I’m secretly frightened/jealous [...]

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The Myth of Rooney and Tevez

As the Tevez saga dragged on this summer, more than enough column inches were given to a hot debate. Would Rooney and Tevez be able to play together? Both players are short and stocky, with strength and quick feet their prized attributes. Whilst Rooney can bomb down the field and keep up with Ronaldo if [...]

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Liverpool Do What They Do Best

Manchester United were branded the “luckiest team in the league” in a recent poll announced a few weeks back. Whilst I will definitely admit we’ve had our share of good luck over the years, the pot has definitely been drying up in recent times, with referees too gutless to give the right decision for fear [...]

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Republik of Mancunia vs The BBC

After watching England vs Russia during the week, I was left fuming by the comments made by Mark YSB Lawrenson and John Motson about our very own Wayne Rooney, which I wrote about here. I made an official complaint to the BBC about the negative bias used when talking about Rooney. After citing the two [...]

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