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19/05/2014 20:58
Brian McClair
Arriving at Manchester United at the beginning of the 1987-88 season, Brian McClair had won the Scottish FA Cup in 1985 and the Scottish league championship in 1986 as a goalscoring centre forward brought to Old Trafford by Alex Ferguson who bore a strikers` resemblance to future...
22/02/2014 15:38
Soccer Tsar Andrei Kanchelskis
Manchester United right winger, Andrei Kanchelskis, played for the Soviet Union of Socialist Republics (USSR), known as the Soviet Union before the Russian Federation was brought into being by President Mikhail Gorbachev on December 25, 1991. Before the USSR became...
21/02/2014 09:52
Praying For A Wing
Manchester United have always had a simple playing policy, which is to find the best wingers, like legendary manager, with 13 league titles, Alex Ferguson, found David Beckham (1993-2003) and Ryan Giggs (1990-), to make the forwards responsible for scoring goals, because of a...
17/10/2013 12:42
The Diamond
The fallacy surrounding Manchester United in recent seasons has been that of the diamond, which is a tactical concept, and a strategical structure, deriving at Manchester United from the way in which Bobby Charlton was deployed in the 1960s, as a deep lying center forward,...
14/10/2013 20:10
Supermarket Stam And The Plates Of Meat That Couldn`t Run Enough After Him
Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, decided to sell Jaap Stam, his central defesive rock, to Lazio of Italy in 2001 after the club`s third successive championship win. The centre back, who had arrived from PSV...
04/10/2013 12:38
Clubs Cups
The Copa De Libertadores is the trophy all the soccer teams in South America compete to win and it`s the most difficult because first the teams have to win their national championships. Unlike Europe, where the zenith of achievement is the European Champions` League FInal and the cup...
02/10/2013 13:07
Leeds To Soccer Success At Manchester United
In 1953 Bobby Charlton was a young left winger with a powerful strike in his left foot that kept him in the Manchester United team when he got his chance to play there. By 1968 he was a holder of the Ballon D`Or, and the title European Footballer Of...
30/09/2013 12:21
Manchester United And The Carriage And Wagon Department Of The Lancashire And Yorkshire Railway Depot At Newton Heath
In Manchester United`s early days the `red devils` were the `heathens` of Newton Heath, and wore the green and gold of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, because they`d been...
28/09/2013 14:13
Mangnall, Busby, Docherty And Ferguson, Managing Triumph From Disaster
This article can be found in the May-June 2014 edition of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America`s (NSCAA) Soccer Journal
Manchester United have had only four successful managers, and but three since their...
06/09/2013 12:19
Clogging In Soccer, Will The Reds Survive?
Manchester United are known for attractive, attacking, entertaining, and successful footballing skills, which survived soccer`s so-called `hard men` to welcome changes in the Football Association rules to prevent the horrendous injury list of players under...
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