Liverpool V Manchester United 0–1

January 10, 2013 by · Leave a Comment 

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Wayne Rooney

Des­pite being down to ten play­ers for much of the second half, Manchester United were still a hand­ful as they beat their long­time adversar­ies Liv­er­pool 1–0 at Anfield Road in Janu­ary 2005. And to top it all all, the win­ning goal was scored by pre­vi­ous Good­ison Park centre for­ward Wayne Rooney in the 22nd minute of the derby match.

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Southampton V Manchester United 2–5

November 26, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

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George Best

In the month of Novem­ber 1971, Manchester United and North­ern Ire­land favour­ite George Best man­aged to hit his second hat trick of the sea­son against releg­a­tion bat­tling Southamp­ton at The Dell. Brian Kidd and Sammy McIl­roy also made the score sheet to round-off a bril­liant away per­form­ance by The Reds as they beat Soton 5–2.

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Manchester United Trash Liverpool

November 20, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

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Ted Mac­Dou­gall

Frank O´Farrell´s Manchester United team sur­prised most pun­dits by regis­ter­ing a com­fort­able 2–0 tri­umph against bit­ter adversar­ies Liv­er­pool at Old Traf­ford in Novem­ber 1972. Ted Mac­Dou­gall, who had pre­vi­ously been rejec­ted by Liv­er­pool man­ager Bill Shankly, recor­ded one goal and cre­ated another for fel­low striker Wyn Davies.

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Denis Law Demolishes Waterford

October 28, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

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Denis Law

Fol­low­ing a 3–1 vic­tory in the first leg, Manchester United once again put up an aston­ish­ing dis­play by demol­ish­ing League of Ire­land side Water­ford to the tune of 7–1 at Old Traf­ford in Octo­ber 1968. The Blues were well up for the chal­lenge and fought hard in the first period but they ran com­pletely out of gas after the half time break.

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Manchester United Clinch The Treble

May 29, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

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Ole Gun­nar Solskjaer

The 1999 Cham­pi­ons League Final turned out to be one of the most mem­or­able matches in his­tory as Manchester United beat Bay­ern Munich before a crowd of 90,000 at Camp Nou. After being 1–0 down at half-time, Manchester United came back to win the clash 2–1 cour­tesy of goals from Teddy Sher­ing­ham and Ole Gun­nar Solskjaer.

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The Red Devils Tame The Lions

May 21, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

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Ruud van Nistelrooy

The 2004 FA Cup Final at Mil­len­nium Sta­dium in Cardiff turned out to be a some­what one sided affair as The Red Dev­ils cruised to a rel­at­ively com­fort­able tri­umph against Denis Wise´s Mill­wall team. Cris­ti­ano Ron­aldo headed The Reds in front after 44 minutes before Ruud van Nistel­rooy net­ted twice in the second period to make it 3–0.

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Manchester United V Charlton 4–0

May 15, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

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Ryan Giggs

On the last day of the 2005-06 cam­paign on the sev­enth of May 2006, Manchester United defeated Alan Curbishley´s Charlton Ath­letic team to the tune of 4–0 at The Theatre of Dreams. The con­vin­cing win over the South East Lon­don out­fit sealed second place in the Premi­er­ship and with it auto­matic qual­i­fic­a­tion into the Cham­pi­ons League.

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Mark Hughes Hits An Amazing Brace

May 14, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

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Mark Hughes

The 1991 European Cup Win­ners’ Cup Final at Fey­enoord Sta­dium in Rot­ter­dam ended with a deserved 2–1 tri­umph for Manchester United as they defeated Bar­celona thanks to an amaz­ing brace from wing wiz­ard Mark Hughes. With the vic­tory, The Reds won the European Cup Winner´s Cup for the first time in the his­tory of the club.

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Lee Martin Scores The Winner

May 11, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

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Lee Mar­tin

Although not a great goal scorer, defender Lee Mar­tin still man­aged to snatch the win­ner in the FA Cup Final against Steve Coppell´s Crys­tal Palace team at Wemb­ley Sta­dium on 17 May 1990. After win­ning his first major trophy with Manchester United, Alex Fer­guson would go on to win the European Cup Win­ners Cup the fol­low­ing sea­son.

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Manchester City V Manchester United 0–1

May 7, 2011 by · 1 Comment 

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Cris­ti­ano Ronaldo

As was expec­ted before the start of the game, the con­test between Manchester City and Manchester United at The City of Manchester Sta­dium in May 2007 turned out to be a tough and phys­ical encounter. The red shirts even­tu­ally emerged vic­tori­ous thanks to a pen­alty goal from Por­tugal inter­na­tional Cris­ti­ano Ron­aldo in the 34th minute.

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