Manutd.com will unveil the new kit on July 1st, but we already have it here.

As you could see from the Rio and Rooney pictures, AIG is still the front shirt sponsor. You could also see the black V across the chest

The players will don the kit for the first time during their pre-season tour of Asia next month.

The reigning Mexican champs made a splash in Mexico City on Wednesday night as they presented their new line with German outfitter Puma. Long gone are the days where Lotto was their designer of preference.
So top secret was the information about this new jersey that when they went to Los Pinos to go visit the president, Felipe Calderón, he was given the "old" jersey.

While waiting for the game to start I was having a nose around the Observer's Review section, and more specifically around an interview with art collector Charles Saatchi. He was asked about (artist) Mark Rothko and the nature of infinity, and replied as follows:

"My understanding of infinity goes something like this: every 100 years a sparrow flies to the top of a large mountain, and cleans its beak by scraping it on the highest rock.

United have received permission from UEFA to hold a tribute for Sir Matt Busby prior to the start of the Champions League Final. One half of Rome's Olympic Stadium (the Curva Nord) will be transformed into a 16,000 piece mosaic/mural meant to honor the late Manchester United manager, who would have been 100 years old the day before the final.

The U.S. team trained today at Allan Lamport Stadium in Toronto, a small venue (seats just under 10,000) that was built in the mid-1970s. The stadium, named after a former mayor of Toronto from the 1950s, was built on the site of the infamous Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women, i.e, a prison. The prison opened in 1872 with the idealistic promise of a "homelike" atmosphere for its inmates, but in it's almost 100 years of existence earned a dark and dastardly reputation, and in 1969 it was closed and demolished.

Liverpool are on a disastrous four-game losing streak in the league at the moment. How does this compare to the club's worst runs over the last 100 years? LFCHISTORY.NET investigates.
Liverpool have not lost 4 games in a row since the 1986-87 season, when Kenny Dalglish was in charge and the Reds finished 2nd.

The current team might be trying their best to erase all positive memories of the club's history for their fans, but River Plate can celebrate a milestone of sorts today. In 1908 they won a promotion playoff with Racing, and one hundred years ago today, on the 2nd May 1909, they beat Argentino de Quilmes [.

Newcastle United have arranged another pre-season friendly when they will travel to Scottish Premier League side Dundee United to help kick off their Centenary Season celebrations at Tannadice Park on Sunday, August 2 (kick-off 3pm). The Dundee club are proudly celebrating 100 years since it was founded.

Partick Thistle Football Club and Greaves Sports launched the club's new Puma 09/10 centenary strip yesterday. This was done 100 years to the day since the Jags' first ever game at Firhill. According to Partick Thistle's website: The commemorative and limited edition strip will be worn for the first time by Thistle this Saturday during the league [.

The Guardian has an interesting piece on a forgotten tale involving United players, 100 years ago. Here's an extract:

The first meeting of the Association Football Players Union in 1907 was chaired by United player Billy Meredith – the "Welsh Wizard", who was one of the first footballing superstars.

CONMEBOL is the South American Football Confederation (officially known as the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol) which covers the majority of the continent of South America. It is the oldest of FIFA's confederations, originally forming in 1916, almost a century ago. The federation's formation was begun by Héctor Rivadavia Gómez who had a grand plan for a federation for South American football.

On this Friday, Inter released the documentary about its 100 years. "Nada Vai Nos Separar" highlights the great moments in the history of the club its foundation, the important participation of the black community, the construction of its stadium, the three Brazilian titles and the titles of Copa Libertadores and the Club World Cup.

It's so rare for a Premier League footballer to act in such a deranged fashion that we simply must get as much information as possible so we can place the details into a big box and hide it and then we can re-open it in 100 years time and think ...

Something to read while you watch Alan Brogan and wonder: "How much better would the Irish national team be if all the Gah players switched to soccer?"* The Offside finally blowing bubbles again (West Ham Offside) To the internet! (Studs Up) Ryan Babel: earplug salesman (Three Match Ban) 100 Years of Internacional (See The Cup) Plastic pitch = plastic football [.

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• It's a week to Promise and Deliver! Luis Fabiano, Fabregas and Nilmar expressed their desire to score and promptly delivered. The Arsenal midfielder opened the scoring for La Furia Roja last night, helping Spain to a 3-0 win over Estonia.

Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez insists that he's unconcerned about his side's leaky defence this season, pointing out that the Reds are in sterling form at the other end of the pitch.
Striker Fernando Torres, who leads the Premier League scoring charts with eight goals, is the primary reason for Liverpool's best offensive start to a campaign in over a century.

In England, Liverpool is beaten 2-0 by a powerful Chelsea side which moves to the top of the Premiership.
In Italy, Italian champions Inter Milan move to the top of the Serie A beating Udinese 2-1 with a late winner by Sneijder in stoppage time.
In Spain, Real Madrid is taken down by Sevilla 2-1, while Barcelona struggle with Almeira winning 1-0 with Pedro scoring.

There is now a fairly decent selection of Hibs books available on the web. The daddy of them all is of course The Making of Hibernian by Alan Lugton three volumes of the history of Hibernian Football Club. Sadly, volumes 2 and 3 are really hard to get hold of (Volume 1 can be purchased on the link below).

On the night that Man United celebrated 100 Years at Old Trafford, Man United had a very, very easy game against Wigan Athletic. The Man United players wore black armbands in memory of Busby babe...
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