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Bin United “Anthem”

“Take me home United road” has become a popular song at Old Trafford over years gone by, so much so, someone had the bright idea of letting an American sing it over a cheesy country and western nineties sounding track, resembling the original “Country Roads” by John Denver. It’s good for getting the Old Trafford [...]

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Misconception of Arsenal’s “kids” vs United’s “experience”

There has been a lot of fuss made over Wenger’s team of kids this season, after Arsenal had been written off in the summer. The team of youngsters are currently top of the league on goal difference with a game in hand to play. After United drew with Arsenal at the Emirates last weekend, mad [...]

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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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What If Rooney Grabbed The Red Card?

I was fortunate enough to be at Old Trafford to watch the lads batter Chelsea last weekend. At half time, I watched the highlights, with Rooney coming close to scoring in the opening minutes, with Mikel getting sent off for his foul on Evra, Tevez clinching his first United goal, Joey Cole bringing Evra down [...]

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What A Difference A Shirt Makes…

As the summer of 2006 came to an end, following a season where our team had been ravaged by injuries, the last thing we wanted was to be without arguably our two best players at the start of the coming season. When, ludicrously, the FA dished out three match bans to both Rooney and Scholes [...]

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You Scouse Bastard – Steven Gerrard

“Better late than never as Gerrard gets his MBE” reads the headline in The Times today. The article gets better, if you can imagine that, as you read on. “At last, one of Liverpool’s great quests for a significant honour has been realised. Nineteen months after their thrilling victory in the Champions League, Steven Gerrard, [...]

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Make your mind up, FA

When I saw the “challenge” Wayne Rooney had received his straight red card for in the Amsterdam Tournament, I laughed. “Innocuous” Ferguson branded it. “Unbelievable” said Rooney. Utterly ridiculous decision, but never mind. We had the tournament in the bag, so didn’t really think twice about it. When it was said Rooney could have a [...]

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When in doubt, blame United

Finally, the words I have been waiting for before I wrote about the events of Saturday, have been released by Wayne Rooney. ”I want to say absolutely categorically that I did not intentionally put my foot down on Ricardo Carvalho. When the referee produced the red card I was amazed – gobsmacked.” When the final [...]

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