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 [...]
Posted in Rooney, Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2008
Had a very pleasant night out on Tuesday.
Not normally the sort of thing that UV reports, I’ll grant you, but bear with me. Having enjoyed the evening and being a man of weighty parental responsibilities, I passed up the offer of ‘one for the road’ with JW and HJD and headed off home, leaving them [...]
Posted in FA Cup, Rooney, chelsea, kuzszcak, portsmouth on Mar 9th, 2008
You know what? We can live without winning the FA Cup this year. We’ve got enough of a problem with fixture congestion without a replay and two games at Wembley. Just at the moment, though, it’s hard to see it like that.
I try not to make a big deal of refereeing mistakes. All it does [...]
Posted in Rooney, anderson, arsenal, champions league, lyon, ronaldo on Mar 5th, 2008
Well that was an odd experience. Managed to catch United’s game against Lyon last night at the One Tun pub in Goodge Street, which seems to be a fairly safe bet if you want to see a Manchester United game in the centre of London (even when the Gooners are also live on TV). Great [...]