After back-to-back defeats against Blackburn and Newcastle to end 2011 and open 2012, there were many who doubted that Manchester United would be able to successfully defend their Premier League crown. At that time, though only three points separated United and City at the top, many United supporters would’ve been content with a three-point lead [...]

Following this morning’s chat about Arsenal’s season, we’re now taking a look at Aston Villa’s, with Damian Dugdale from The Villa Blog. With Villa replacing Gerard Houllier with Alex McLeish, who has relegated hated rivals Birmingham twice, there’s maybe not an awful lot to be happy about if you’re a Villa fan at the moment. [...]

This season, RoM have joined up with the Metro’s Fantasy Football league. League Name: Republik of Mancunia League Pin: 4356 If we can get 100 people to join up, the winner of our league will win £100, so spread the word. We will also be competing with other blogs and there will be an overall [...]

RoM has been nominated for the best club specific blog in the Caught Offside awards. We are currently trailing to Empire of the Kop, famous in these parts for immediately offering their full backing to Spirit of Shankly in light of the Munich singing videos which appeared. Despite the highest ranking members of SoS admitting [...]

RoM were able to give away two tickets to the CL semi-final against Schalke thanks to Sony Ericsson. They are now offering fans the opportunity to win two tickets to the final. To enter you need to visit the Sony Ericsson Football FANatic Facebook page and explain why you are the biggest fan and why [...]

EPL Talk are starting their 2010-2011 awards and RoM has been shortlisted for best club blog. Please take a few seconds to vote for us. Spread the word.

You may have played in the game against Wolves, like me, but closed the window before the end of the game. This means your points, like mine, won’t have been registered. D’oh. Fortunately, now that PickLive are our partners, they’ve kindly offered to refund that game to any of you who closed the window if [...]

For those of you who haven’t joined the Twitter revolution, turn away now and grumble about the irritation of Twitter. For those of you that have, you will be pleased to learn that RoM was ranked 55th in the UK during Follow Friday this week, making us more popular than Jonathan Ross, Lily Allen, Gabby [...]

“First game I went to was West Ham at home on Bank Holiday Monday at the start of 85/86. I’d been nagging to be taken for a while – I was displeased to discover my parents went to the 83 Cup Final replay without me, and dissatisfied with the rosette that I was given as [...]

The Telegraph has used our alternative Carlos Tevez posters on their website and have published them in the paper.