Personal and ill-founded views on the world of Manchester United
Posted in Rooney, campbell, charity shield, ferguson on Aug 6th, 2008
Oh dear. Not the end to the summer that Sir Alex would have wished for.
The silver lining to England’s failure to qualify for the European Championship was that it reduced the risk of injury to a United squad that draws more on the talents of the home countries than most others in the Premiership.
It’s an [...]
The perennial question about when Sir Alex Ferguson will hang up his hairdryer and concentrate on mastering the piano at home in Prestbury or start plotting Team GB’s campaign at the 2012 Olympics has been somewhat overwhelmed this year by the Ronaldo circus. Curiously both questions could be answered by a single phrase ‘One more [...]
Posted in berbatov, ferguson, spurs, transfers on Jul 21st, 2008
A slight revision needed to my article on the Levy/Berbatov/United rumble. It seems that Fergie was mis-quoted and never actually named Berbatov as the player in the frame, so apologies to SAF (an avid reader, I’m sure) for this mistake. It all makes Levy look more foolish than before. Clearly he issued the statement without [...]
Posted in berbatov, ferguson, levy, real madrid, ronaldo, spurs, transfers on Jul 18th, 2008
Well, can you blame David Levy? He’s had enough of every Tom, Dick and Harry (usually Redknapp) going after his players and has finally reported both Manchester United and Liverpool to the Premier League for their pursuit of Berbatov and Keane respectively.
“The behaviour of both clubs has been disgraceful. We told both clubs very early [...]