By Brian Sears 25 January 2011 Manchester United’s Premier League season reached the half-way mark, its 19th game, with the New Year’s Day 2-1 victory at West Brom. Since then they’ve played three more league games, beating Stoke, drawing at Tottenham and then thrashing Birmingham 5-0, all ahead of Tuesday’s match at Blackpool. As sportingintelligence’s […]
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REVEALED: Ferguson beat Busby’s Manchester United record 10 weeks ago
By Nick Harris 19 December 2010 Few if any Manchester United fans can have failed to notice the recent coverage of Sir Alex Ferguson ‘overtaking’ Sir Matt Busby’s record reign as United manager, but in fact Ferguson overtook Busby 10 weeks ago. And the inconsistency in the way the ‘official’ United figures have been compiled […]
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Arsenal research brand value in hope of catching United, Real and Barcelona
The ‘brand’ is increasingly bandied around in the world of football. Sportingintelligence explains what is meant by a brand and how you calculate its value. Alex Miller reports. . By Alex Miller 26 November 2010 Ask anyone with even the most basic knowledge of football to name the clubs with the biggest and most valuable […]
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Manchester United’s unbeaten start keeps Arsenal’s historic record in sight
By Brian Sears 15 November 2010 If there is a perception in some quarters that Manchester United are faltering this season, it should be balanced against the fact that they are enjoying their longest ever unbeaten run at the start of a Premier League season. They are unbeaten after 13 league games following the weekend’s […]
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Aston Villa brace for challenge of Man Utd, most fearsome foe since … Oldham
By Brian Sears 12 November 2010 Aston Villa’s lunchtime match on Saturday pits them against Manchester United, the team against whom they have found it hardest to win points during the Premier League era. In their previous 36 meetings since summer 1992, Villa have won a mere 18 points, from three wins, nine draws and […]
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Manchester United round-up: Nani on being ‘the real deal’, Sanchez, Hamsik, Rooney effigy, Wolves fear, and FCoM in the FAC
4 November 2010 . A digest of some of the Manchester United stories making headlines today . From the official website, Nani insists that United are now the ‘real deal’ and will start a proper challenge to Chelsea. “I think you are starting to see the real Manchester United now. We are very confident at […]
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M.U.S.T claim Glazers ‘caved in to pressure’ to seal Rooney’s new Manchester United contract
By Nick Harris 22 October 2010 The Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST) has claimed this evening that Wayne Rooney’s new contract is evidence of the Glazer family caving in to fan pressure and protests at the US family’s ownership. A MUST spokesman said: “Like most supporters we are astonished but delighted by the news that […]
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Drawing conclusions: why Manchester United and Fulham are the same this season
By Brian Sears 22 October 2010 Manchester United and Fulham have a fascinating statistic in common this season and it’s got nothing to do with the amount of time they’ve been without their star strikers, either metaphorically or literally, before being gloriously reconciled in recent hours. (That’s a reference to Rooney and Johnson for those […]
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Wayne Rooney performs contract U-turn on a sixpence to sign new 5-year deal with Manchester United after owners’ intervention
22 October 2010 Wayne Rooney has changed his mind about wanting to leave Manchester United, signing a new five-year contract until June 2015. The terms have not been disclosed but the owners of the club, the Glazer family, were directly involved in the deal and it is assumed Rooney was given a bumper rise on […]
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Andy Cole: ‘Stretford was my agent and he’s with Rooney for the cash’
By Nick Harris 21 October 2010 The former Manchester United striker and Paul Stretford client Andy Cole has this evening asserted that Stretford “is a key factor in what’s going on with Manchester United’s best player [Wayne Rooney] at the moment.” Writing in his column for the Friday edition of the Abu Dhabi newspaper, The […]
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