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STATS: Our midfielders compared to Chelsea’s, City’s and Arsenal’s

STATS: Our midfielders compared to Chelsea’s, City’s and Arsenal’s

Passing – Arteta has made more successful passes than any other player this season (2517), followed by Carrick (2443) and Yaya Toure (2246). – Arteta has averaged a higher number of passes per game than any other player this season (80.9), followed by Toure (78.9) and Carrick (77.1). These three are separated by at least [...]

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STATS: Season review – The midfield

STATS: Season review – The midfield

- Our most accurate passer in midfield is Scholes (92.4%), followed by Cleverley (90.2%) and Kagawa (89.7%). – Our most accurate midfield passer in the attacking half is Scholes (90%), followed by Cleverley and Kagawa (85%). – Kagawa has more touches of the ball than any other player in midfield (1.32 per minute), followed by [...]

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VIDEO: Welbz on Rooney banter, playing for England and being a fan

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How did Michael Keane get on at Leicester?

How did Michael Keane get on at Leicester?

1. What did you think when you first heard you were signing Keane on loan? To be honest, he was a bit of an unknown quantity. That being said, we’ve had Manchester United players on loan in the past (Tom Cleverley, for one) and Nigel Pearson knows a good player when he sees one. We [...]

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PICTURE: Van Persie Rips Piers Morgan

PICTURE: Van Persie Rips Piers Morgan

All season, Piers Morgan has been giving shit to Robin van Persie after his move from Arsenal to Manchester United. He took to calling him “Van Pursestrings”, implying that he was a mercenary. A few months after joining United, Van Persie has shown exactly why he left the club, with him winning the Premier League [...]

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Tribute To Eric Steele

Tribute To Eric Steele

Eric Steele began his playing career as a goalkeeper at Newcastle United in 1972. His next club was Peterborough United where he established himself as first-choice keeper and set a record for most consecutive league appearances (124) that still stands today. Within the next 12 years he moved from club to Brighton & Hove Albion, [...]

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Fan Thoughts On Manchester United’s Season 2012-2013

Fan Thoughts On Manchester United’s Season 2012-2013

With the 2012-2013 season behind us, several fans have spoken to RoM about the best and worst parts of last season. 1. Who has been our best player? 2. Who has been our most improved player? 3. What was your biggest disappointment? 4. Which was our best game? 5. Which was our best goal? Doron [...]

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United cut interest costs by £10m a year

The club has refinanced more than £192m of high-interest debt which cuts our interest costs by about £10m a year. The Glazers have secured a new loan from Bank of America with far lower interest rates. United have refinanced £177.78m of outstanding 8.75% interest sterling bonds and $22.09m (£14.6m) of 8.375% dollar bonds. The new [...]

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STATS: Our defenders compared to Chelsea’s, City’s and Arsenal’s

STATS: Our defenders compared to Chelsea’s, City’s and Arsenal’s

Tackles per game Minutes per foul Passing accuracy Tackles won Ground duels won Aerial duals won Interceptions per game

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Rio: Who wouldn’t want to play for United?

Rio: Who wouldn’t want to play for United?

Rio Ferdinand has agreed a new one year extension deal to keep him at the club until the end of next season. “I am delighted to have signed a new contract,” he said. “Who wouldn’t want to play in this fantastic team in front of 76,000 fans each week? It has been an incredible journey [...]

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RoM Reads

The Cockney Red talks about Ferguson. The Daily Mail has interviews with Beckham, Giggs, Scholes and Neville when they were youth players. Life’s a Pitch looks at the importance of sorting out Phil Jones’ position. Stretty News reports on the claims Rooney has opened discussions with PSG. The Peoples Person looks at Kagawa’s regrets.

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STATS: Season review – The defence

STATS: Season review – The defence

Summary of defensive impact – Evra (82%), Smalling (80%) and Evans (76%) won the largest proportion of their tackles. – Ferdinand (74%), Evans (72%) and Vidic (61%) won the largest proportion of ground duels. – Vidic (67%), Smalling (64%) and Jones/Evra (62%) won the largest proportion of aerial duals. – Rafael (10 minutes), Evra (11 [...]

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Keane: Thanks for chanting my name

Keane: Thanks for chanting my name

Michael Keane joined Leicester City on loan at the beginning of November with the idea that he would just stay there for a month. The club kept on extending his contract though, meaning he stayed all season and played close to 30 games. Two months ago, Keane scored an injury time goal against Leeds United [...]

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VIDEO: 2012-2013 review

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RoM: Best club blog

The Republik of Mancunia was voted the best club blog in the EPL Talk Awards 2013. Thanks to everyone for their support.

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