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By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my NOW that Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has finally retired, you really have to wonder how the chewing gum industry will fare without its biggest advocate. Hairdryer manufacturers, too, would probably be freaking out right about now. But such is the measure of the man that his departure has actually caused […]
We’ve seen it many times before: Alex Ferguson beaming from ear to ear while walking on to the football pitch after the final whistle of a momentous victory, applauding his players and giving them encouraging pats on the back. Yet, after one of the most unlikely victories he will achieve in his career, Ferguson seemed […]
Fabio Capello has been praised for giving youth a chance, while Roberto Mancini got a pat on the back for taking a gamble on a free agent. If I had not known any better, I would have thought that I had woken up to the footballing equivalent of 28 Days Later. Just imagine, a desolated […]
After a few summers of relative scrounging, Alex Ferguson had promised Manchester United fans a spending spree, so how do feel about his first piece of business, Blackburn defender Phil Jones?
Were Manchester United that good, or were the opposition just plain bad? I’d have to say it was more the latter.
He’s one of the greatest managers to have ever graced the Premier League. He has revolutionised English football, and unearthed some of the finest players of the past decade. But still, Arsene Wenger has yet to master the art of spending big.
IT’S easy to see why Manchester United are the most hated football club in England after the events of the last couple of weeks.
Manchester United appear to have called dibs on Shakhtar Donetsk’s Brazillian playmaker Douglas Costa after the player was spotted at Old Trafford, but he’s not gonna come cheap.