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Injuries – Comparing United With Arsenal, Chelsea, City, Liverpool and Spurs…

Injuries – Comparing United With Arsenal, Chelsea, City, Liverpool and Spurs…

Even before the terrible news that Vidic’s season is over, many of us were already questioning whether the football Gods were conspiring against United with an unusually high rate of injuries this season. Indeed, some have gone further, raising the concern that this is not an isolated phenomenon but the continuation of a trend that [...]

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Chicharito Is United’s Best Ever Super Sub

Chicharito Is United’s Best Ever Super Sub

Five minutes after coming off the bench this afternoon, Chicharito scored the equalising goal for Manchester United at Anfield. Following the game, Sir Alex Ferguson was full of praise for our Mexican striker. “Hernandez did it again,” said Ferguson. “When you see the goal he was strangled by Martin Skrtel but he managed to free [...]

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Some FACTS For Benitez On Liverpool And United Spending

Some FACTS For Benitez On Liverpool And United Spending

The football was nothing to write home about in 2008-2009 but in terms of excitement and nerves, it was one of the best seasons for years. As usual, we were fighting it out for the title, but this time it was against our hated rivals, Liverpool. United were a few matches behind everyone else at [...]

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STATS: Best Value For Money In Manchester

Click on graphic to enlarge Source: VoucherCodes.co.uk

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Who’s Trying To Buy The Title? United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Blackburn, City?

Who’s Trying To Buy The Title? United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Blackburn, City?

1992-93: Blackburn £8.11m (4th); ­champions Manchester United £2.3m. 1993-94: Blackburn £8.65m (2nd); champions Manchester United £3.75m. 1994-95: Everton £10.9m (15th); champions ­Blackburn £6.8m. 1995-96: Newcastle £14.78m (2nd); champions Manchester United £750,000. 1996-97: Newcastle £16.5m (2nd); champions Manchester United £7.5m. 1997-98: Newcastle £21m (13th); champions Arsenal £16.55m. 1998-99: Manchester United biggest spenders with £27.75m and also [...]

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STATS: United’s Spending vs Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, City…

STATS: United’s Spending vs Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, City…

Whilst credit has to go to the manager for buying so well, you can’t help but wonder just how successful we might have been since 2005 if not held back by the Glazers. United are the “most valuable sporting franchise” in the world, according to Forbes, so why is that 13 teams in the Premier [...]

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Sir Alex Spending Better On Wages Than Any Manager

Robert Peston from the BBC has concluded the following from the latest Deloitte annual review: – If you combine spending per unit of output with success in winning trophies, there is no doubt that Alex Ferguson is incomparably the most successful manager in the UK. United’s wage bill per Premier League point is £1.6m, just [...]

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STAT PORN: United vs Barcelona

STAT PORN: United vs Barcelona

Manchester Utd are the only unbeaten side in the Champions League this season (nine wins, three draws). Barcelona’s only defeat in the Champions League this season was in London, when they lost 2-1 at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium last February. Barcelona are the best attacking side in this season’s competition with 27 goals while Manchester United [...]

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STATS: Berba’s Winning Goals, Scholes’ Passing

Dimitar Berbatov has scored the most winning goals in the Premier League this season. 7. Paul Scholes completed 61 passes in 28 mins v Blackburn on Sat, more than any Rovers player has in an entire game this season. Since August 2005, nobody has scored more Premier League goals than Wayne Rooney. 91. Only two [...]

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STATS: Berba’s Goal Distribution Compared With ALL United’s PL Top Scorers

STATS: Berba’s Goal Distribution Compared With ALL United’s PL Top Scorers

Following on from yesterday’s article which argued against the section of United fans who have been critical off Dimitar Berbatov because of his goal distribution, we will now be looking at how he compares with all our top scorers during the Premier League years. We have looked at how many goals each of our top [...]

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STATS: Yeh but Berba has only scored in a few games…

STATS: Yeh but Berba has only scored in a few games…

After spending the first two years of his Manchester United career being criticised by large sections of our support, Dimitar Berbatov has shone this year. He was the first Premier League striker to ten goals, then the first to twenty goals and with three games left to go, he is still the league’s top scorer. [...]

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STATS: League Positions of United, Arsenal and Chelsea So Far This Season

STATS: League Positions of United, Arsenal and Chelsea So Far This Season

You’ll notice that some of the league positions over-lap. This is because differing cup commitments meant they were out of sync and had games in hand at different points in the season, so this doesn’t represent league positions week by week, but game by game. ———- If you enjoy reading this blog, please take a [...]

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STATS: What Happened In Fergie’s Other Banned Games?

- P8 W6 D0 L2 – Before now, he has been banned for 2 games in 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2003. – With today’s ruling, his fines total £75k. Games won: Everton, Portsmouth, Blackburn Rovers, Sunderland, Birmingham and Leeds. – Games lost: v Fulham (1-3 in 2003) and at West Ham (1-2 in 2007) ——— [...]

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STATS: H-H United, Arsenal, Chelsea, City, Liverpool and Spurs

With United not showing enough passion or determination in another big game, here’s some quick stats to see how the top 6 clubs have got on in head to heads this season. It’s interesting to note that United have played more games against top 6 opposition than any other club in the top 6 so [...]

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STATS vs Wigan: Scholes’ Passing, Ineffective Wingers and Goal Involvement

STATS vs Wigan: Scholes’ Passing, Ineffective Wingers and Goal Involvement

Paul Scholes (53/58) 91% passing completion Michael Carrick (45/51) 88% passing completion Darron Gibson (11/14) 79% passing completion Darren Fletcher (28/45) 62% passing completion + 1 assist. Nani (20/37) 54% passing completion + 1 assist. ———— The Guardian Chalkboards

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