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Weekend Betting: Why Everton can stop City

Sky cameras are at Main Road on Saturday to see Manchester City take on Everton (12.45pm KO) and the bookmakers make the home side red hot favourites at 1.44 to bag all three points. However the stats suggest that it may not be as clear cut as the odds suggest. Everton beat Manchester City 2-1…

Weekend Bets: Back United to beat Chelsea and Liverpool to beat Tottenham

Weekend Bets: Back United to beat Chelsea and Liverpool to beat Tottenham

After a midweek that saw only one British side win in Europe, we’re back to a fantastic weekend of Premier League action, with the headline matches on Sunday as Manchester United take on Chelsea at Old Trafford and Liverpool travel to White Hart Lane to meet Tottenham. Let’s look at the key Premier League matches…

Champions League Preview: Manchester Plots European Domination

Champions League Preview: Manchester Plots European Domination

Manchester City get the chance to finally – definitively – emerge from the shadow of their cross-town Red rivals as this year’s UEFA Champions League commences. They’ll do so with a team which, while not having ever competed in the the Champions’ League as a unit, possesses a significant amount of top-flight continental experience. United,…

Stat Attack: The Relentless Cristiano Ronaldo

Stat Attack: The Relentless Cristiano Ronaldo

Just how ‘good’ is Cristiano Ronaldo? Earlier we shared news on the ‘Cristiano Ronaldo: Tested to the Limit‘ documentary which subjects CR to a series of innovate tests to measure his performances. But that’s still lab testing, off the pitch, not a true measure of a footballer’s abilities. To measure how good Ronaldo is as…

Rooney and Young – A Promising Partnership For United and England

Rooney and Young – A Promising Partnership For United and England

Rooney and Young, Young and Rooney. The two seemingly go hand in hand. Both have starred in Manchester United’s exceptional start in the quest for a 20th Premier League title. Sir Alex Ferguson’s newly devised weapon is as electrifying as it is frightening. Undoubtedly, Rooney and Young have taken Old Trafford by storm. Initially, Ashley…

Owen Hargreaves: Manchester United to Manchester City via Oblivion

Owen Hargreaves is to join Manchester City in one of the most dramatic and sensational transfer deals of the summer after the ex-Manchester United player agreed to undertake a pay-as-you-play deal for the Champions League debutantes. Fresh from signing Sergio Aguero, Samir Nasri, Gael Clichy and Stefan Savic it would seem that the free transfer…

10 Things We Learned From Manchester v North London and Premier League Week 3

10 Things We Learned From Manchester v North London and Premier League Week 3

We’re just three weeks into the new English Premier League season and we have already seen two of the greatest team performances of recent times, two of the worst team performances of recent times, and two clubs in crisis. All in all it was a good day for Manchester as they beat North London 13-3…

Manchester United sign £40m training kit sponsorship deal

Manchester United have confirmed two new commercial partnerships, including an extension of their existing partnership with logistics firm DHL, who will be their first training kit sponsor. The new four-year-agreement sees the DHL logo included on the Club’s training kit worn by all first, reserve and youth team players during domestic competitions and builds on…

Five Things We Learnt This Weekend

Five Things We Learnt This Weekend

After three months of feigning interest in golf, cycling and cricket the Premier League football season finally returned and here are my “Five Things We Learnt This weekend.” 1. Liverpool Used to be Home to the Fab Four. The greatest quartet ever, was born in Liverpool: Lennon, McCartney, Harrsion and Starr, passionate, imaginative, good looking and…

Manchester United’s £16m deal to win EVEN MORE free-kicks and penalties

Manchester United’s £16m signing Ashley Young brings several key advantages to the team. When Ferguson realised that you can’t buy a successor to Ryan Giggs for 3m (bye bye Obertain), nor can you force a right-sided winger (Nani), an ageing CAM (Park), a striker (Rooney), an OAP (Giggs) or a young defender (Fabio) to run…