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.

Click to read more ...

You put your centre half in, your centre half out, your centre half in and you shake him all about, you do the Rio cokey and you turn around, that's what it's all about.

This seems to be the strategy adopted by Roy Hodgson over Rio-gate, the latest in the saga following the badly handled Terry situation.

Click to read more ...

''Manchester United have been poor defensively.'' This is a common quote that has been said amongst Football fans, pundits and all involved in Football across the globe as sadly it has been true.

Five clean sheets in the first four months of this season and eight in total so far speaks volumes as for a club of our stature and considering what we are competing for that is a horrendous statistic.

Click to read more ...

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?

Click to read more ...

The back-line is one of the most important parts of any football team. Along with their goalkeeper, a defense’s job is to defend the goal and stop the opposition scoring.

This season incredibly Manchester United have not been defending well. You could say that thet have one of the worst defensive-units in their most recent history.

Click to read more ...

Well it’s fair to say Manchester United’s thrilling win away at Reading was a fantastic game to watch. In fact you could say it was a fun match to watch. Here are what I feel were the five main talking points to come out of yesterday’s game:

Click to read more ...

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.

Click to read more ...

Chelsea have made a blistering start this season. What’s been more surprising than that has been the way that they have won back neutrals and pundits around the country who now love the brand of football that they are playing instead of being bored with the defensive-minded side that won an unforgettable European Cup and FA Cup double last season.

Click to read more ...

SC Braga arrived at Old Trafford last night undefeated in their 5 previous European clashes with English clubs, so everybody knew an under-strength Manchester United were in for a tough test against their Portuguese Champions League rivals.

However I doubt anybody expected the Red Devils to be 2-0 down within 20 minutes!

Click to read more ...

Remember the days when Manchester United used to be defensively sound, when you could rely on Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic at the back in front of Edwin Van der Sar. A mean defence which hardly gave away chances, let alone goals on a regular basis, weren’t those the good old days?

Click to read more ...

The player who carries the tag 'most improved' for United so far this year has to be our right back Rafael da Silva, but why is this the case?

His initial introduction into the United team followed a merry go round of Wes Brown, John O'Shea and Chris Smalling playing that role. Phil Jones has provided some competition there too. All tall, all good headers of the ball and all strong defenders.

Click to read more ...

So the word on the street is that Sir Alex Ferguson is going to drop Patrice Evra this weekend for Manchester United’s game against Wigan Athletic this weekend handing Alexander Buttner his full first-team debut.

Should this be the perfect setting for Buttner to be thrown in at left-back at the Frenchman’s expense? The simple answer to that question is a resounding YES!

Click to read more ...