Man United and
Chelsea have been the top two teams in the
Premier League over
the past few seasons, tomorrow they go head-to-head at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea is the on form team
and they will be very dangerous, especially up front tomorrow. Man United on the other hand haven't
been in the best of form and are looking shaky, especially at the back.
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It is Friday morning and
Sir Alex Ferguson has finished his pre-match news conference. There
is a bit of good news on the injury front ahead of the all important game between
Man United
and
Chelsea this Sunday.
After missing the midweek 3-3 draw against CSKA Moscow in the Champions League,
Nemanja
Vidic and
Dimitar Berbatov are fit to play on Sunday.
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Man United defender
Gary Neville has been quoted by The Sun as saying that the crowd
trouble at
Barnsley was blown out of proportion because Man United were involved.
United won 2-0 down at Oakwell but the game was marred by three Barnsley supporters running onto
the pitch and other supporters ransacking the food kiosks.
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Gabriel Obertan joined
Man United during the summer. Immediately after he signed, it
was announced that he had picked up an injury. Obertan has recently made his first team debut but
he has been really impressive whilst playing for United's reserves.
The 20-year old made his debut for the first team during United's 2-0 win over Barnsley in the
Carling Cup.
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It is believed that
Man United manager
Sir Alex Ferguson is ready to add to his
attacking options this January. One of the players being linked with a move to Old Trafford is
21-year old
Angel Fabian di Maria.
The Argentine currently plays for Portuguese side Benfica.
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Man United keeper
Tomasz Kuszczak has taken a swipe at fellow United keeper
Edwin
Van Der Sar. Kuszczak has said that he goes to United's number one Van Der Sar to ask him for
advice but he is only rejected.
If this is true, then I can understand why Kuszczak is frustrated, but is it really the best thing
to go to the papers?
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Liverpool captain
Steven Gerrard has admitted that he doesn't like seeing former
team-mate
Michael Owen wearing a
Man United shirt.
Gerrard told FourFourTwo magazine:
"I don't like it. It's weird and doesn't look right."I played with him in the red of Liverpool since I was 10, so to see him in the red of United is
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It has been confirmed that
Man United will compensate
Barnsley after some United
ransacked the kiosks and threatened the young teenage (mainly female) staff. It has been estimated
that the ‘fans' caused £10,000 worth of damage.
United did win the match 2-0 and now hopefully things are all sorted and United can concentrate on
beating Tottenham Hotspur in the next round.
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Man United midfielder
Darren Fletcher may have just returned to the first team from
an injury, but there are already reports that he will have to struggle until the end of the season
with an ankle injury.
Fletcher has revealed that he is hoping that a pain killing injection will delay the need for
surgery.
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Ahead of the upcoming important
Premier League match against
Chelsea this Sunday,
Man United defender
Patrice Evra has said that he never loses against Chelsea. Over
recent season's Evra has had one or two controversial moments at Stamford Bridge. The main one was
after a game, things kicked off with Chelsea staff, you can read more about it here, here and here.
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Before yesterday's game, all
Man United needed to do to qualify for the next stage of the
Champions League was to win or draw. Last night there was a six-goal thriller at Old
Trafford where things didn't go the way they were supposed to.
CSKA had got off to the better start but United were starting to control the game, when the
visitors took the lead.
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The Times have a feature on their website today, talking about
Premier League stars and
their manners whilst flying. An air stewardess has lifted the lid on who was polite and who was
rude.
She said:
"We often get football teams flying to European games, and it's always interesting to
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For once
, UEFA President Michel Platini has said something nice about England. Platini has
said a lot about the Premier League's spending, which was mainly aimed at
Man United,
Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and more recently Manchester City. However he didn't say anything about
Real Madrid's spending and other high profile European clubs.
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Man City striker
Carlos Tevez has bought a massive version of the famous Manchester
poster. Tevez has paid £2000 the ‘Welcome to Manchester' poster which caused an uproar.
Tevez left
Man United during the summer following a two-year loan, he then decided to turn
down an offer from Old Trafford and join their City rivals Manchester City.
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