Kitbag.com has today announced that Manchester United’s Van Persie has been the most popular name printed on the back of replica football shirts, during the current 12/13 Premier League season.
The findings revealed that Van Persie accounted for 25.4% of all personalised replica football shirt sales, followed by Gerrard (8.2%), Rooney (6%), Kagawa (5.8%) and Suarez (3.6%).
Last season, Rooney was at the top spot with (8.4%) of all personalised replica football shirt sales, followed by former Arsenal striker Van Persie, (7.9%), Chicharito (7.5%), Gerrard (5.0%) and Giggs (4.6%). Overall Manchester United football shirts remained the most popular for name printing.
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I just realised Ruud, Edwin and Robin all have “Van” in their name, I don’t think all Dutch people do, were they from the same area or something. We need to find this area.
ROBIN VAN VAN VAN PERFECT
i just hope he will fire us to the double
come on united
We bought Robin to sell shirts.
Scott – please can you do a detailed reactions thread for the game last night. Thanks. Awaiting.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/manchester-united-set-bank-34m-1723600
Logic because we had 600000000+ members in the world
Amazingly, there is one quote making the rounds from Ferguson, apparently from post match
@AzmarKhan “I’ve lost two finals against Barcelona and I deserved that, but tonight I feel robbed” Sir Alex Ferguson
Anyone else know that this is genuine?
http://www.thesportreview.com/tsr/2013/03/vincent-kompany-gerard-pique-twitter-real-madrid-manchester-united/
even shitty player reckon that was never a red card
keane what s your fucking problem
even shitty player reckon that it was never a red card
keane what s your fucking problem
http://www.redmancunian.com/2013/03/06/video-manchester-united-fans-footage-welcoming-ronlado-back/
the atmosphere was incredible
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/382263/Manchester-United-s-Rio-Ferdinand-thanks-fans-for-amazing-support
did anyone notice the performence of vidic yesterday
he was a beast .the true vidic is back
rio also was top class
I think Van means from.
Still gutted. losing a game is one thing but losing unfairly is another. Does anyone have a video or link to Ronaldo crying after he scored against us?
Oh and just quickly, we should be proud of the way all our players gave everything for the shirt; in particular Rafa, Giggs and Welbeck…Those guys were incredible. So proud.
@icedearth
it has become a habit for me to wait your links after games
great to read something different. peace.
Last nights cu(ey)nt decision to know united out himself seemed to overshadow what seemed to be a brilliant performance by Red zaha, bagging a goal and two assists for his team
Knock*
UEFA backs referee
A UEFA spokesman says the governing body
has “no issues” with Nani’s red card against
Real Madrid on Tuesday night.
WELL DONE PLATINI
WeAreUnited
cheers mate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7CJTQMerbDA#!
GOOSEBUMPS, the legends comeback to United!
a shame that the Ref couldn’t let us shut up Ronaldo and deny him scoring at OT. but it was all written in the starts……and in the book of the referee.
peace
stars***
@Proverb
Of course they had no issue. The right team (for them) went through. Now watch the 2 referees for our games with Real get to officiate the semi finals or even the final.
Proverb
fifa uefa platini blatter are just corrupt
Well Scott, if this thread has been written as a consolation to what happened last night, then so be it:-)
right now I need a hug:-D
http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1364891?cc=3888
@andromea
haha I also found this thread funny, you don’t expect this kind of threads after yesterday hahahaha. FUNNY
ps. which one it is with capital Andromeda or andromeda?
Just sending off.fucking arsehole is responsible for getting us knocked out with his studs up challenge,we went from cotrolling the game to also rans.And I would like to know why there was not an immediate tactical change as soon as the sending off occured while we were still leading.And I was wrong when I said we wanted to win.
Awesome. No complaint on the lads. They did so well. Beast.
All players played well.
Nothing is there, all is there is united
“we are reds”
No one here, all is here is my soul tided
the stars were turning red, destiny guided
in the night of honor
oldtrafford chimed
bless him who sings for tomorrow
for him the eternity has been decided
for the sake of tomorow, we will be derided.
@we are united
cheers mate, actually its both:-)
on my cell phone I signed in as “A”version while on my laptop its”a”.I didnt notice this by myself:-/ kinda strange, but guess what I will try stick with the former one”Andromeda”:-)
Parryheid – you really are not helping yourself again, how on earth is nani raising his foot to control the ball mid-air as he usually does and arbeola steaming from an offside of nani’s vision a “studs up challenge”? You really are clutching at straws but as always you search for a scape-goat. If it was up to people like you, united would have cloggers all over the pitch and no talents.
@parryheid
I guess you’re joking right or being sarcastic about Nani, cause can’t see more on your comment,
and for the comment for the changes that SAF didn’t make immediatelly, kinda agree, but then, what to do? we had a proven team there, that played their hearts off, but afterwards when you see it, probably we should have made some changes after the red.
At that time, it didn’t seem necessary, Welbeck went leftwing and that’s it, didn’t need to do anything else, I though immediatelly after the red, that Valencia should have been introduced and Giggsy off and RVP off for Rooney to come in,, could that been the answer?
IF’S and BUT’s part.132.
@Parryheid
well said mate, I was myself waiting for something to change, perhaps to halt Modric’s stormy contribution.to be honest I was waiting for Evans or Anderson.I think the match has been decided on emotion, Fergie has too much frustrated and the players where too shocked and they were inspired by the incident.we woke up to late after conceding two goals.perhaps this a harsh lesson to learn in the future we must not be so much distracted by these kinda freakish things, all I need this year to see the virus out of champions league.
@Parryheid
well said mate, I was myself waiting for something to change, perhaps to halt Modric’s stormy contribution.to be honest I was waiting for Evans or Anderson.I think the match has been decided on emotion, Fergie was in despair and too much frustrated, the players too were shocked.on the contrary they”madrid players” were inspired by that status quo.unfortunately we woke up too late.perhaps this a harsh lesson to learn, in the future we must not be so much distracted by these kinda freakish things.
Banging on about “why wasn’t there a tactical change”, disregarding the fact that madrid have world class players capable of exploiting gaps on that pitch, the oldtrafford pitch is one of the most difficult to play on with ten men. It was the same with bayern, top teams capitalise on an advantage, especially when aided by a fixing ref. Kagawa, anderson, hernandez could have come on and united would still lose, it was hard enough to play with 11 men against madrid, 10 was pushing it too far.
The crowd last night were incredible. In my opinion ronaldo now definately knows what he means to manchester united. You will never hear the real madrid giving that sort of reaction to one of their own players!! Im certain he will be back next season. He had tears in his eyes after he scored.
Giggs did outplay him at the tender age of 39 though, was incredible to watch. This would be one of those games that people talk about for decades! You will never get that feeling with a barca, city, bayern, chelsea, liverpool game. And it was all ruined by a biased cunt. How uefa can support him is ridiculous. Anyone got any news whether he made it out of manchester in one piece? Sounds fucked up but i kinda hope he got obliterated.
Also, midfield (that is sooooo shit [sarcasm]) was fucking incredible last night. We played our hearts out. If only old trafford was like that every week, imagine the performances the team would put in. Last night really showed what the home advantage does for you
Samuel.. I cant believe we have people criticising our team! So called fans. One cunt even said on here before kick off that they hope welbeck gets injured in warm ups so rooney will come on. We were beaten by a biased ref and were totally in control and would have got more goals!
Every United player last night exceeded expectations and were fucking incredible!
People are desperately clutching at some form of reason for the defeat which does not apply to having a deficit of ten.men. Hernandez this, kagawa that, point is, in alonso, khedira and modric, madrid had the right players to manipulate possession into areas that would affect united. Ronaldo had numerous one on one runs against rio and vida, both defenders are still world class but i fancy neither in a foot race with him. The defeat could have been a lot more but united’s mentality of never throwing the towel.in prevailed and they in-turn battered madrid to no rewards. Pointless all these to be honest, united are out, bribing and fixing will go on and cakir will get a sack of $$$ sent to him, it’s all worked out for uefa and plateeeeni’s tumble belly won’t rumble.
Looks like the ref doesnt like english teams, he sent off Terry, Cahill,Gerard,Balotelli , great list for his CV
New good player. Thats why. I bet if Rooney joins Arsenal he will sell most shirts in his first year
I don’t think there was room for a tactical change. We needed a fresh CM after Nani was sent off. And once again, Anderson was nowhere to be found.
Dan-young – it baffles the mind really, i would have thought as fans, we were all on this subject at least, surely vast proportions of united’s faithful acknowledge that the red card made a big impact? Seems some are digging out everything tactically and wondering who could have played but at no point in that game was tactics an issue, fergie had everything worked out, one bizarre decision blew everything up and gave madrid incentive and more confidence, you could see their players had a spring.immediately nani went off. I agree, thought every player was outstanding, they played with drive and determination and none hid on the big stage.
Not helping myself.It was a clear sending off for studs up or does that rule not apply to United.We had plenty to say when the Liverpool player Didn’t get sent off for his studs tackle on Nani.And that incident last night happened thirty metres in front of me useless cunt.
Cheers guys
The douchbags couldn’t have preferred any other team to progress, the fucking fixing of matches has to be investigated. How obvious do they want to make it appear
Parryheid – I left this blog because of nonsense fom knobheads like you and Wayne but you truly have stooped to a new level with your anti Nani agenda. Yeah they were so similar.Fuck off to the Etihad or Anfield where you belong
lhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3ZpCmstTKA
Too bad RVP has sucked last couple of games, just like with Arsenal last season he scored 1 goal last 10 games. I think he has played too much, but on the other hand he has saved us plenty of times. Hard choice for Fergie.
It wasnt just the fact that Madrid players had a spring in their step, but the sheer shock our lads felt. Old Trafford was stunned as red nev said, the decision was such a bolt out of the blue. Amazing to see Giggsy try and rally from there but honestly it had all shifted in the most bizarre way possible. Not even an indication that it would be a red. Ref looked pretty calm, players looked uninterested, except for Ramos, and it was all a bit of nothing. He should be lucky to officiate a league match again. And the snap decisions that continued to follow… it was as if Madrid could do no wrong, there was a certainty to their play where there had been hesitancy before. Al of a sudden they knew the ref would help them out. The pen wasn’t given, the cards added up. Proud of the lads to face upto it. You dont go down against a marauding team like Madrid and expect to defend a one goal lead. Had we been 3-1 up it would still have been an ask. The bemused look on Jose’s face told the bigger story. He has been on the other side enough times to know what it is like…
Voice of reason.
You left this blog before did you well I suggest you fuck off again as you have difficulty seeing the obvious. Fucking Bam.
And you didn’t answer the question does the studs up rule not apply to United ?
Absolutely gutted. The lads put in a great shift only to be upended by a bizarre call to say the least. Apparently we have our own, in-house, visionary officiating pundit that was 1 of 4 in the entire fucking building that thought it was any more than a yellow at worst. Cunt ref, Ramos, Arbeloa and parryheid, congratulations, you stand in good company.
Giggs rolled back the clock last night, he was sensational. Couldn’t help but be reminded of SAF’s infamous coacker spanial quote. He outplayed the world’s 2nd best player in a match on the biggest of stages. Pity to see a call change a game like that. Not to say if it didn’t happen Real wouldn’t have gone on to muster a result as anything’s possible in football, but had United gone on to prevail Giggs’ performance would’ve become that of folklore passed down to generations of United faithful.
Roll on FA Cup, time to show the true spirit of that which is MUFC. Heads held high lads, let’s bury the Renties and push for a double.
Breaking from MEN
@MENnewsdesk
UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against MUFC over Nani’s red card and non-fulfilment of post-match media obligations. More follows
And Dan Roan
UEFA action against United is purely concerning Nani suspension & failure to talk to media NOT dissent such as Ferdinand sarcastic applause
Good news for Ferdinand. Hope there is something in Collina’s report to help Nani.
And you’ll love this
Liverpool legend Jamie Nicol says Never a Red for Nani
AND goes on to calls Keane out!
HA, With friends like these eh!
CAUTION THIS LINK MAY TAKE YOU TO A VERY ABU PLACE
http://tinyurl.com/cj4tr57
ididnotzeeit.
Aptly named,and you missed out with Roy Keanes view on it as well.And I’ll ask you does the studs up challenge’s not apply to United players?
@FletchTheMan
My computer didn’t want to open that link, it said, warning, you are entereing to a place where you walk alone.
@parryheid I really think you are joking and just trying to get people angry. I get it, funnr response, can’t see anything else. It’s a different thing to have studs up in purpose and hit someone and a different case when yo udon’t even see the guy coming, Arbeloa clearly rushed and hit Nani, of cousre Nani trying to get the ball.
YES, studs were up, but clearly you can use your common sense and see that it was unintentional, and Nani didn’t mean that, that’s how the decisions are sometimes made.
My common sense says Arbeloa desevred a red card for hitting Evra, but he didn’t, why Nani’s case is any different? Use your common sense, and don’t try to be the only one who tells us that we need to get our red tinted glasses off, when for example Liverpool legend Jamie Nicol says it’s not a red and many more, but us United supporters should not say that.
peace.
erm Steve Nicol ! My mind is obviously blown tonight! Cheers
WeAreUnited. Cheers son!! A dark place indeed!
Now even Steve Bruce is calling Keano out……
This is getting way our of hand!
@parryheid
Why don’t you and Roy meet up for a beer. You seem to have a few things in common.
Against Bayern Munich posters on this site pilloried Rafaelfoe costing us the round with his Reckless tackles.Yet you and some others prefer Nani gets a free pass for his Reckless studs up which definately allied with poor tactics cost us progression.And I wont even mention a few of bang in form players missing for some obscure reason or times substotutions were made,Ach fuck it.
Still angry guys.
Boycott Heinekin. One small way to make a difference. Maybe that insurance agency if it’s large enough.
you’re walking alone @parry mate, and I for example never blamed Rafael for making us lose, but I wasn’t at that time in this blog so don’t’ know the opinions here.
Sometimes it’s betetr to have your opinions and not enter this place, because sometimes you only get angry at how people can miss some great things or not appreciate the right players etc.
anyway. leave it parry, it never was a red. peace.
@parryheid
Hello mate. From what I saw he looked at the ball and put his foot up to control the ball. But at the same time you’re always leaving yourself open to a referee making that decision. He was unlucky but I wouldn’t say that it was a reckless tackle as he didn’t make a tackle.
United had many chances to score over the tie but just didn’t take the chances. We can all blame the referee but it wasn’t his fault Modric was unmarked on the edge of the box or that Ronnie was left unmarked at the back post. Bad decisions happen all the time. the trick is minimising the chance of being on the end of one, and if you are, how you mitigate against it.
SAF had his tactics bang on up until the sending off. Although I would have preferred it if United were able to keep possession for a little longer. It always seemed like we were rushed in possession.
When Welbeck moved to the left to cover where Nani was this left Alonso unmarked. Perhaps RVP should have dropped on to him for the rest of the game.
A Man Utd fan called 999 to report the Nani sending off as a crime. Brilliant”
We was robbed.
@ parryheid – to be honest, you come across as quite dumb, you make baby level analogies and statements that are illogical, simplistic and obtuse.
The red card in my opinion shouldnt have been a red card BUT I completely understand it because the europeans play girlie football and its not the done thing to kick a bitch in the tit. Nani followed the ball with his eyes and his thunderous 10 stone frame graze the bossom of the Real lass, needless to say she went flying and the revenge first muslim decided that being center stage and help the team he personally supports was the right course of action.
If I had the choice United would withdraw from all future champions league (watered down European Cup) competiotions for the future and play a north Atlantic soccer cup with the up and coming yanks and reignite the Irish’s passion for football. Every time we play Barca or Madrid the referees are atrocious. Every time we play Germany we get a French or Turkish referee and I hate the idea of our players havig to go to shit holes like everywhere in eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Ive decided that from now on United are just a domestic team and Europe is just the mickey mouse cup euro disney style. I already dont give a flying fuck about England when they play mainly because I have no desire to see England play foreigners and I have no desire to shake a foriegners hand and have something in common with him even if its just for 90 minutes.
Nani is a prick for doing it because even he must realise that euro refs are verging on the overly soft and to go up with a leg like that is asking for trouble, but Ill admit I would have done the same thing and then I would have purposely kicked the fanny in the chest. But thats why Im not a proffessional footballer, fitess and temperament.
Sod Europe. Cant stand the Frogs with a passion, I will never forgive the Germans for their actions at the beginning of the 1900′s, I like the Italiens but the corruption is rife. The Dagoes are corrupt and elitest, the dutch will soon be under water so it doesnt matter, the Belgians have no identity so instead they try and take a youngsters by going three knuckles deep, The Scandinavians are wet behind the ears and believe they are still Vikings………. The European Union is a collection of biggoted beurocratic numpties and the people can be pretty bloody rude at times.
Please remind me why we want to play a game with these people, Its like playing Monopoly with Osama Bin Ladin. As soo as you build a hotel, he throws a strop sits down on top of it then explodes his vest. Fuck it. Let them win, I wont watch anymore.
NBI Red Onion.
To be frank it’s debatable if you know what honest is,and thanks for the compliments the main one being that I am totally different from you.And for fucks sake dont bite yourself there may not be an antidote for your brand of poison.Giruy.
I hate to link to the Fail but Paddy’s commented on Roy’s comments:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2289043/Roy-Keane-wrong-Nani-red-card–Paddy-Crerand.html
Naturally they’ve jumped on his dig at Keano but the old man’s got an excellent point.
parry, there you go again, waving the flag for all sensless buffoons. seems like you’ve had that crazy bitter baguette roy keane had last night.
Samuel-united We stand.
Simply put a Clear ordering off offence whether you like it or not and dont give me the wasn’t looking/didn’t see him excuse.just think peripheral vision.
look at this tackle on Evra from Arbeloa, incredible how he has stayed on the pitch. That was studs showing. http://i.minus.com/iQtq1dQBa4VIZ.gif
For all of his shirt selling, RVP sure bottled the heck out of those two legs against Madrid.
Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson
I would’nt say bottled it,but underperformed and has underperformed for a number of games recently.Which is why if anybody was to be dropped it would have been him rather than Rooney who has come back into decent form and snap with Kagawa and I would have had Evans as a sure starter and watching the team coming up thought Aw for fucks sake.Still that’s life.
firstly @parry, when you’re right, you’re right, and I will admit it, you also should be able on doing that, for example the red card, and not blame Nani or anyone for it. Just saying!
Anyway, back to business, I agree with you both @Arthur and @Parry, I also thought that RVP should have been dropped and not Rooney. My bet is that, SAF thought, that when you have a player like RVP you always think that if you leave him out, you maybe are going to make a mistake. It usually is the case, but this time, he was a disappointment, when you consider he didn’t score.
SO, the two-leg game turning point was that, We expected that our supersigning and man of the season RVP will deliver in this kind of games, what happened is that in his last 8, he’s only scored 1 and assisted 2. RVP scored against Madrid 0 goals and had a lot of chances that he wouldn’t have bottled if it would have been the beginning of the season. He did, summary 0 goals.
On the other hand, Madrid expected Ronaldo to deliver in these kind of matches, and he scored 2, didn’t play his best, but basically scored 2 winners.
The third part that if we don’t count the missed chances is that the REFEREE decided the game and ROBBED us a place in top8.
WeAreUnited.
Whether the card was harsh or not is not the issue with me,it’s the view he was unaware/did not see him that is.I dont believe he did not know he was there and if he didn’t then he had no right being on the pitch.Which by coincidence I said before I left for the match would put a damper on it for me.As Kagawa bang in form should have played imo and therefore we are out of the cup coutesy of a player who should not have been in the position to show studs in the first place,others think differently so be it.
I like their shirts all the way
Whether the card was harsh or not is not the issue with me,it’s the view he was unaware/did not see him that is.I dont believe he did not know he was there and if he didn’t then he had no right being on the pitch.Which by coincidence I said before I left for the match would put a damper on it for me.As Kagawa bang in form should have played imo and therefore we are out of the cup coutesy of a player who should not have been in the position to show studs in the first place,others think differently so be it.