Alex Ferguson's farewell speech at Old Trafford by footballdaily1 Sir Alex Ferguson said goodbye to Old Trafford with an emotional speech following Manchester United's win against Swansea in his final home game in charge. Fergie's unscripted talk was sandwiched between the match and United's title celebrations.
Will Chelsea legend Lampard replace Scholes at Manchester United? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Frank Lampard has become part of the furniture at Stamford Bridge, amassing over 400 appearances for Chelsea since joining from West Ham back in 2001. Despite being only one goal away from equaling Bobby Tamlin's goalscoring record for the west London club, the England international's future with the Blues looks uncertain.
Paddy Crerand has today revealed that it is unlikely that we will see Darren Fletcher play for Manchester United again. Speaking to Beyond The Pitch, Crerand expressed his disappointment for Fletch, but he doesn't think the Scot has any chance of coming back.
"I love Darren Fletcher and I hate to say this, but I wouldn't expect to see him playing again for Manchester United," said Crerand.
Yoan Gouffran of Newcastle is stretchered off with an injury-Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images
This weekend in the English Premier League proved pivotal for teams in the title race and the top four, but unfortunately saw a couple of key injuries as well.
Maybe the most crucial result of the weekend came at St.
Manchester United v Everton English Premier League Old Trafford, Manchester Sunday 10 February, 2013 16:00 GMT
Manchester United will be looking to maintain their nine point lead at the top of the table and take one step closer to wrestling away the Premier League title from Manchester City.
Manchester United have confirmed that Darren Fletcher will miss the rest of the season following surgery to resolve his chronic bowel condition.
The Scottish midfield has fought a two-year battle with ulcerative colitis and while United have emphasised that the operation is part of a ‘planned procedure', it has to raise fresh concerns about his future.
Darren Fletcher ruled out till summer - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher will miss the rest of the season after having a surgery to cure his long standing problem with a chronic inflammatory bowel condition.
Darren Fletcher ruled out till the end of the season
The 28-year-old had to take a break from football last season too due to his chronic bowel suffering (Ulcerative colitis) and even though Manchester United expects him to return to action next season with all his problems behind him, the news puts his long term future at Old Trafford in jeopardy.
Manchester United today released a statement regarding Darren Fletcher and his need for bowel surgery. Fletcher will be unavailable for the remainder of the season. Is this the end of his United career or the beginning of his road to recovery? Read the full statement...... Darren Fletcher will be unavailable for the remainder of this [.
Manchester United have confirmed that Darren Fletcher has been ruled out for the rest of the season. Fletcher has had planned surgery to resolve his Ulcerative Colitis condition. Fletcher needed a period of sustained good general health before he could have the operation, which the club believe he has shown by training with the team regularly and featuring in some first team games.
Bottom of the table QPR visited European giants Manchester United on Saturday in a showdown that many believed would be extremely one-sided. Though Manchester United walked out winners, they did take the roundabout way of securing all three points. Below, the story of the match in pictures.
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Javier Hernandez of Manchester United (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)
In typical Manchester United style, Sir Alex Ferguson's squad had to come from behind and pull out a result. Although QPR stuck with Manchester United for as long as possible, the energy and urgency from United was too much for QPR.
Highlights of Newcastle united's League Cup match against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Teams / Match facts Manchester United (4-3-3): David de Gea; Marnick Vermijl (Ran Tunnicliffe 77), Michael Keane, Scott Wooton, Alex Buttner (Robert Brady 86) Darren Fletcher (c), Tom Cleverley, Anderson; Danny Welbeck, Wayne Rooney (Nick Powell 77), Javier Hernandez Subs: Sam Johnstone, [.
Long-term Manchester United absentee Darren Fletcher made his return to action last night. The
Scotland international had been out of action for nine months since being diagnosed with a chronic
bowel condition. The 28-year-old pulled on a United shirt again for a testimonial match for former
Aberdeen player Neil Simpson.
Darren Fletcher returned to Manchester United duty tonight as he came on for the last half hour
of United's 2-1 defeat to Aberdeen in Neil Simpson's testimonial, with United midfielder Anderson
getting on the score sheet with a cracker.
It's not that long ago that question marks were being raised over Darren Fletcher's chances of
ever playing football again, as a chronic bowel problem kept the Man Utd man out of action for the
majority of last season. However, having already been called up to the Scotland squad this week,
the 28-year-old made an appearance for United in a friendly game against Aberdeen on Tuesday
night.
Darren Fletcher has been named on the bench for Manchester United in tonight's pre-season
friendly against Aberdeen.
"Darren joined in for four or five days last week," Mike Phelan said last week. "We
decided that, if he felt well enough and felt good, we'd bring him into a training
session.
According to Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti, French club Paris Saint-Germain have thrown
themselves into the mix for the 19-year-old midfielder. Moratti, whose club is keen on signing the
midfielder, said PSG has offered Sao Paulo a bid worth an estimated $55.
Only recently, more question marks were raised over Darren Fletcher's playing career by none
other than his Manchester United boss, Sir Alex Ferguson. However, Scotland boss Craig Levein has
now announced that the 28-year-old United star will link up the national side ahead of their
friendly against Austrailian on August 15th.
The former England manager who abruptly resigned in February, just months before he was to lead
the nation at Euro 2012, met with the Russian federation Thursday to discuss the national team's
coaching opening.
Capello is reportedly the front-runner to replace Dick Advocaat, who already had plans to leave
Russia for PSV Eindhoven even before his side failed to advance out of the group stage at Euro.
Not the most talented of players to play under Fergie, Scottish midfielder Darren Fletcher still
managed to carve out a key role in some of the Red Devils' recent successes. However, last
December, Â the tough-tackling star saw his career put on hold courtesy of a case of ulcerative
colitis which, according to his manager, may now spell the end of his playing career.
Swiss Ramble looks at our financial situation in great detail.
ManUtd24 talks about Shinji Kagawa.
By Far The Greatest Team has an interview with The Telegraph's Mark Ogden. He talks about the
joys of working in Manchester, the West Ham bias in the press, and United and City.
Soccerlens reckons this will be a defining season for David de Gea.
Manchester United have acknowledged on their official website that reports linking them with
Portuguese midfielder Joao Moutinho hold legitimacy, with only the details appearing to be
unclear.
Moutinho, 25, has enjoyed a successful career at FC Porto since his move from Sporting Lisbon in
2010 and his international career also reached unprecedented heights during an impressive Euro 2012
showing earlier this summer.
Manchester United have completed the capture of Japan midfielder Shinji Kagawa from Borussia
Dortmund on a four-year deal.
Kagawa passed a medical with the Old Trafford outfit earlier on Friday and has now tied up the
loose ends of a transfer Sir Alex Ferguson expects will prove a big success.
Paul Scholes was brought out of retirement after Manchester United struggled with injuries in
midfield, with Tom Cleverley, Anderson and Darren Fletcher all ruled out for a period of several
months.
Having not played any competitive football for seven months, aged 37-years-old, how did Scholesy
get on?
One of the most interesting things about the summer spending period so far has been where the
top teams have indicated where they want to strengthen.
It is obvious that Man Utd have needed to improve their midfield with the possible retirement of
Darren Fletcher and doubts about Park Ji Sung pending and the rather rushed re-signing of the
evergreen Paul Scholes.
It has been reported that Michael Carrick hasn't trained for the past few days due to illness,
meaning United could be playing Sunderland with a squad down to the bare bones, again.
Carrick has been our most important player this season so his absence could be costly. Tom
Cleverley has barely played this season because of injury but after a few substitute appearances
recently may get called back in to the starting XI.
The biggest and most important Manchester derby of recent times brought with it disappointment and
begrudging acceptance that the opposition deserved the win and were the better side for
Manchester...
Darren Fletcher played for 90 minutes for the second time in a week today, as he makes his return to first team football after suffering from a chronic bowel condition. There were times last season when it looked as though his playing career may be over and he started coaching the younger players.
Sir Alex Ferguson today confirmed that we are still playing a waiting game when it comes to
Darren Fletcher's future as he battles ulcerative colitis, a bowel condition.
"We'll wait and see," Ferguson told MUTV. "The boy's trying very hard to get back
to his level. It's not going to be easy but we'll give him every possible chance and see how he
does.
Wales player Gareth Bale (C) celebrate (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
Gareth Bale enacted a ten-minute turnover that saw Wales go from bottom of the pile and back into Group A contention. The match signaled the first Welsh victory with Chris Coleman at the helm of the nation and will undoubtedly buoy the Dragons on their quest for 2014 World Cup qualification.
Kenny Miller of Scotland celebrates with Jamie Mackie (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
As match day three for World Cup Qualifiers gets underway this week, let's take a look at Europe's most difficult group to predict, Group A. After two matches played Serbia, Belgium and Croatia remain dead-locked at the top with four points.
With just days to go before a match on Sunday, Sunderland defender Phil Bardsley went out on the town this week to disastrous consequences — only days before their final match of the season against Tottenham Hotspur where Arsenal will be hoping that Bardsley and his colleagues will put up a good fight.
Ahead of United's Champions League game against Galatasaray, Darren Fletcher has spoken about his role within the squad as one of the more senior players.
"I'm 28 and one of the most senior players in the squad," he told MUTV. "But it's a role I'm used to with Scotland – you talk to the younger players, give them encouragement.
Wayne Rooney has suggested that as he gets older and loses some of his pace, he plans to play in
central midfield. Having played there a few times last season when United were hit by injuries,
Rooney grew to enjoy the role, although would still prefer to play up front for the time being.
"I did my bit by dropping into a central midfield role when the team got hit by injuries
last season," Rooney said in My Decade in the Premier League, which is being serialised by the
Daily Mirror.
Would you just look at that? Six players cruelly denied of playing in the biggest games of their
club careers for the heinous crime of having picked up three bookings in the dizzying maelstrom of
the Champions League knockout phases John Terry being the only dolt present who actually deserves
to miss out given his conduct.
