Manchester United Play Host To Ajax

February 22, 2012 by Chris Marker · Leave a Comment 

Javier Hernandez

Javier Hernan­dez

Manchester United pre­pare to lock horns with reign­ing Dutch cham­pi­ons Ajax at their Old Traf­ford home in the second leg of  the Europa League last 32 this Thursday night. Manchester United, who won the first leg at the Ams­ter­dam Arena 2–0 last week thanks to second half goals from Ash­ley Young and Javier Hernan­dez, are clearly the bet­ter team of the two and should def­in­itely win this game by a good margin.

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Tomasz Kuszczak Signs For Watford

February 21, 2012 by Chris Marker · Leave a Comment 

Tomasz Kuszczak

Tomasz Kuszczak

Accord­ing to reports, Manchester United goal­keeeper Tomasz Kuszczak has signed for Foot­ball League Cham­pi­on­ship out­fit Wat­ford on loan until the end of the cur­rent cam­paign. The Poland inter­na­tional shot stop­per, who has been fourth choice goal­keeper for most of the sea­son, made his last first team appear­ance for Manchester United in a draw with old rivals Black­burn Rovers at Ewood Park in May 2011.

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Sir Alex Ferguson To Stay On

February 20, 2012 by Chris Marker · Leave a Comment 

Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Fer­guson is con­fid­ent that he will remain in charge at Manchester United for two or three more cam­paigns. The Manchester United supremo, who has won 12 Eng­lish Premier League titles, five FA Cups, four Foot­ball League Cups, two UEFA Cham­pi­ons Leagues and a Cup Win­ners’ Cup at Old Traf­ford, also firmly believes he will stay on as an ambas­sador for the club after he even­tu­ally retires as manager.

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Sir Alex Ferguson Keen To Sign Defender

February 19, 2012 by Chris Marker · Leave a Comment 

Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson

Reportedly, Sir Alex Fer­guson is keen to make a move for Valen­cia stop­per Adil Rami who was watched by Manchester United scouts dur­ing his side´s nar­row 1–0 tri­umph against Stoke City at the Brit­an­nia Sta­dium in the Europa League on Thursday night. How­ever, the Manchester United boss will face fierce com­pet­i­tion for Adil Rami with rivals Bar­celona also inter­ested in sign­ing the prom­ising defender.

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Antonio Valencia Out With Injury

February 18, 2012 by Chris Marker · Leave a Comment 

Antonio Valencia

Ant­o­nio Valencia

Manchester United player Ant­o­nio Valen­cia will be side­lined with injury for at least four weeks after the power­ful and pacy winger dam­aged his ham­string in the com­fort­able 2–0 tri­umph against Ajax at the Ams­ter­dam Arena in the Europa League on Thursday night. The Ecuadorian inter­na­tional was helped from the field a mere ten minutes after com­ing on as a late second half sub­sti­tute for goal scorer Ash­ley Young.

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Manchester United Defeat Ajax

February 17, 2012 by Chris Marker · Leave a Comment 

Ashley Young

Ash­ley Young

After a mor­ale boost­ing 2–1 tri­umph against Liv­er­pool at Old Traf­ford last Sat­urday, Manchester United man­aged to defeat Frank De Boer´s Ajax side 2–0 at the Ams­ter­dam Arena in the first leg of the last 32 of the Europa League on Thursday. A highly con­fid­ent Manchester United team emerged vic­tori­ous thanks to two goals in the second half from young for­wards Ash­ley Young and Javier Hernan­dez respectively.

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Paul Scholes May Extend His Career

February 16, 2012 by Chris Marker · Leave a Comment 

Paul Scholes

Paul Scholes

Sweet passing mid­field orches­trator Paul Scholes has played so well lately that he may con­sider pro­long­ing his Manchester United career for yet another cam­paign. The former Eng­land player, who ini­tially announced his retire­ment after the UEFA Cham­pi­ons League final with Bar­celona at Wemb­ley Sta­dium in May 2011, has been informed that Sir Alex Fer­guson will sit down with him and dis­cuss his future at the club.

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Manchester United Take On Ajax

February 15, 2012 by Chris Marker · Leave a Comment 

Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson

Fol­low­ing a nar­row 2–1 Premier League vic­tory against old enemies Liv­er­pool at Old Traf­ford last Sat­urday, Manchester United pre­pare to take on reign­ing Dutch cham­pi­ons Ajax at the Ams­ter­dam Arena in the last 32 of the Europa League on Thursday night. Manchester United are one of the favour­ites to win the tour­na­ment and Sir Alex Ferguson´s troops should not have any prob­lems with The Amsterdammers.

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Sir Alex Ferguson Condemns Luis Suarez

February 14, 2012 by Chris Marker · Leave a Comment 

Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Fer­guson has said Luis Suarez should never play for Liv­er­pool again after refus­ing to shake Patrice Evra’s hand dur­ing the tra­di­tional pre-match greet­ing at Old Traf­ford on Sat­urday. The Uruguay inter­na­tional was given an eight game ban and fined £40,000 after the Foot­ball Asso­ci­ation claimed he racially abused the Manchester United full back dur­ing the 1–1 draw at Anfield Road back in Octo­ber 2011.

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England Names Interim Coach

February 13, 2012 by Chris Marker · Leave a Comment 

Stuart Pearce

Stu­art Pearce

Foot­ball Asso­ci­ation chair­man David Bern­stein has con­firmed the tem­por­ary appoint­ment of Stu­art Pearce as the suc­cessor of Fabio Capello  The Eng­land Under-21s man­ager, who made an impress­ive 78 full inter­na­tional appear­ances for his nat­ive coun­try between 1987 and 1999, will take charge of The Three Lions senior team for their friendly encounter with the Neth­er­lands at Wemb­ley on the 29th of February.

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