Rio's Decision To Retire From England Duty A Brave And Sensible One

But for Chelsea’s late late Europa League final win over Benfica, the football world’s big talking-point today would be Rio Ferdinand’s decision to retire from England duty.

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You may have seen over the weekend that four Manchester United players were voted into the PFA Team of the Year.

Two of the four – Robin van Persie and Michael Carrick – were obvious picks.

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Losing to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the FA Cup Quarter final is no disgrace but from 2-0 up at home in the first game, losing 3 goals unanswered is of concern.

In both games the cracks that appeared are the faults that separate the very best from the nearly men, and I saw enough to know we have to fix some faults.

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According to rumours in the European and British press Manchester United have reportedly completed a deal to bring Benfica’s Argentine centre-back Ezequiel Garay to Old Trafford next season.

The former Real Madrid defender has impressed with the Portuguese giants getting his career back on track in Lisbon after arriving in 2011 after an unfortunate two-year spell in Spain.

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Manchester United have done pretty well this season. The early parts were rather wobbly but performances over the past 3 odd months have seen them move way ahead in the Premier League title race. Here, let us see at which places can the squad be improved and who can be brought in for that!

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As I predicted a Fulham team shorn of Danny Murphy, Andy Johnson, Moussa Dembele and Clint Dempsey came to Old Trafford in the FA Cup with one eye on their relegation fight and totally capitulated in one of the most one sided games I have seen this season.

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He’s made over 400 appearances for the club in his 10 seasons at Manchester United, winning 13 major trophies to date, but is Rio Ferdinand’s career at Old Trafford coming to an end?

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Well, I don’t think many of us would have backed Cluj to beat Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford. Hands up if you did?

Anyone, OK then I’ll continue. Not many fans would have backed the Romanian champions to have won this game, even with the likes of Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs and David De Gea all in the starting line-up.

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In a case of déjà vu, the sight of Javier Hernandez heading in a winner at Villa Park evoked memories of Ryan Giggs v Arsenal, or more vividly Federico Macheda scoring the winner against Villa, a 3-2 win reversing a losing position characterizes this Manchester United team.

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You know, the writing was on the wall. It was akin to a Bollywood script (i.e. on expected lines). And the end was as it always is, Manchester United beating Aston Villa.

Let us now see the five major talking points of this game:

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In a game of 3 halves, a Manchester United team comprising a 50/50 combination of first team and the League Cup team claimed a last 16 place in the Champions League, proving that last seasons failure was an exception, as Manchester City look on jealously.

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Tonight Manchester United won in grand fashion to defeat Braga and seal their passage through to the Last 16 of the Champions League.

Once again though they had to come back from a 1-0 deficit after a sluggish effort from the team, which enabled Braga to get on-top of the game as United worryingly failed to get out of first-gear for large portions of the game.

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