To celebrate United’s 20th league title, we’re proud to present an exclusive offer to ROM readers – A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to step out on the Old Trafford pitch and take part in an actual game of football (and there’s more!). This competition is brought to you by bwin, official Manchester United betting partner and ROM [...]

The contest is now over. Congratulations to Michael Marriott and James Pearson for winning the VIP tickets, and to Taylor Jones for winning the standard tickets. Enjoy the game! United play Southampton in their final game of January, and given what happened last time these two teams met, you can expect entertaining football, a few [...]

With one of the biggest games of the season coming up this weekend, we have a copy of Bright Red to give away. It’s a great book which tells the story of the matches between United and Liverpool from 1894 to the present day. Simply post a YouTube link to your favourite goal in a [...]

The competition is now closed. The winners are: Adam Truscott for the VIP tickets and Ashley Tapson and Neil Morris for the General tickets. Thank you for taking part in the competition. VIP seats at Old Trafford. United top of the league, Liverpool the visitors, and United completing the double over them. It doesn’t get [...]

We have two VIP tickets and four general tickets to give away to ROM readers for the Boxing Day match at Old Trafford between Manchester United and Newcastle United. The tickets are courtesy of bwin, the official online betting partner of Manchester United. How it works: 1. Register for a bwin.com account. 2. Send your [...]

Thank you for participating – this contest is now closed. The winners are Chris Bostock and Chris Yarwood – congratulations on winning the tickets and thank you to everyone for taking part. For the record, as there seemed to be some confusion amongst the readers, the correct answer as determined by bwin was Robin van [...]

After kicking a fan in the Crystal Palace crowd, Eric Cantona was told he had to attend a press conference. He sat down, had a drink of water, and said: “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it’s because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much.” Everyone was left scratching [...]

This contest is now closed. Congratulations to Amy Watson for winning the two tickets provided by bwin to the United-Arsenal game. Thank you for participating, and keep following the blog for more competitions in the future. We have two tickets to Saturday’s game between United and Arsenal at Old Trafford to give away to RoM [...]

RoM has a copy of the excellent Sons of United eBook to give away. Tony Park, one of the authors of the book, has given some background to how the book came about. “I met my friend Steve Hobin ten years ago at an Academy match and he was already working on a version of [...]

The people at Clothes2Order, based in Trafford Park, have created some RoM t-shirts and poloshirts. Currently, only five of these exist. If you would like to get your hands on one of them simply e-mail the link to your favourite ever RoM article to: republik_of_mancunia_competition[at]hotmail.co.uk with your full name, address and shirt size. Make “RoM T-shirt” [...]

The first meeting of the Association Football Players Union in 1907 was chaired by United player Billy Meredith. At the time, the FA put a £4 wage cap on the players’ salaries and lacked compensation for injured players. This union campaigned against the FA to make things fairer for footballers. Two years later, the FA [...]