MAN UNITED 1, GALATASARAY 0 Manchester United made a less than convincing start to their Champions League campaign, even though they defeated Turkey’s Galatasaray at Old Trafford to record their 100th victory in the Europe’s premier club competition. It was a laboured display by the Reds who can count themselves lucky to have picked […]
Reds count cost of failure
As Manchester United tonight kick off their 2012/13 Champions League campaign against Galatasaray, the price of last season’s early elimination has been laid bare in the club’s latest financial figures. The Reds saw profits for the last financial year fall 16.5 per-cent to £91.6million. And much of that decrease was caused by a 11.3 per-cent drop […]
Ronaldo stuns City with late Real winner
REAL MADRID 3, MANCHESTER CITY 2 City took the lead twice in the Bernabeu but Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid showed the hunger that he claimed they lacked in their shock defeat against Sevilla at the weekend and twice levelled the scores before former Manchester United striker Cristiano Ronaldo struck the winner with two minutes to […]
Aguero set to boost Euro hopes
Manchester City could have star striker Sergio Aguero back to give their Euro hopes a lift. Manager Roberto Mancini has revealed that the Argentine could return after injury in Tuesday’s opening Champions League fixture away to Real Madrid. Aguero has been missing since damaging his hamstring in the opening Premier League game of the season […]
Reds go back to the future
Man Utd 4, Wigan 0 It was a day for records at Old Trafford, but one statistic remained the same – Wigan received another hiding. Paul Scholes celebrated his 700th game for the Reds with his 155th goal for the club. Ryan Giggs became the first player to chalk up 600 Premier League matches and […]