Well I doubt anyone noticed, but there was no update on the blog again yesterday. This time, though, it was due to a complete lack of anything interseting to write about rather than me being wasted. There was another unconvincing back down from Madrid- this time it was Predrag Mijatovic distancing Madrid (but not really) from Ronaldo- but I couldn't bring myself to waste any time on that. Unfortunately, the only United news around today is again about Ronaldo, but this time it is slightly more interseting, and maybe a little worrying.

It looks like Fergie might have started using what the press call his 'mind games' on Ronaldo, and that is usually not a good sign. Today he claimed that the Glazers are just as determined to keep hold of Ronny as he is, which should dispel any suggestions that Madrid could go straight to the yanks to get Ronaldo. Fergie also said, though, that the Glazers would be willing to drop Ronaldo rather than see him leave, and this comment is obviously aimed just as much at the player as it is at Real. The fact that Sir Alex is using this tactic, if he actually is, suggests that Ronaldo has had his head turned by Real, otherwise why would Fergie need to threaten to drop him? In the past these mind games have sometimes meant bad news, so this story has made me more than a bit nervous.

But, according to Ronaldo himself, the whole annoying, frustrating thing could be over in the next couple of days. He said today that in the next 'two to three days' he will 'announce his decision'. How good of him. Don't get me wrong, United need to keep him and I would be gutted to see him go, but his attitude is getting harder to accept. As I've said before, by drawing out the whole situation, for whatever reason, Ronaldo is showing a lack of respect for the fans and the club, and the fact that he started the uncertainty as little as half an hour after the European Cup Final by saying 'I make no promises' (thus stealing the headlines) proves this. And that he sees the decision on his future as his alone to make shows that he has no respect for his contract either; by all rights he made the decision on his future when he signed a new deal only a year ago. Whether he stays or goes should really up to United, and if Ronaldo doesn't like that its not 'slavery' as Calderon seems to think it would be, its called being under contract. But of course, we all know that football doesn't work like that any more.

One thing is for sure, though, and that's if Ronaldo goes he will be making a massive mistake. He has recently said that he thinks that he's still developing as a player and wants to get better, but Real Madrid is not the club for a young player to continue his development. How can he expect to learn more at a club surrounded by uncertainty and media pressure? Just think, in the past four years Madrid have had five different managers, and a dodgy season next year will almost certainly see Schuster sacked. How can Ronaldo learn more when he might not even know who's going to be coaching him? Plus the media is always going to be on his back, as he would be the highest profile signing for Madrid since Zidane or Becks and would definitely break the world transfer record. If the press are bad here, they're nothing compared to the Spanish media. And instead of receiving the loyalty and adoration he gets from the United fans, he would be turned on by the Bernabau crowd as soon as he has a bad game. They did it to Becks, Ronaldo (the other one) and they have been doing it to Robinho, so the Madrid fans aren't going to care about giving Ronaldo grief. And, to repeat myself again, no other club can offer Ronaldo the success that we can at the moment, and United are at the very least on a par with Madrid when it comes to the size of the club, so if it's trophies he's after, he would be taking a huge step down by leaving. It's as simple as this really, Ronaldo is at the best club, in the best league, with the best manager and the best players. He does not need to go anywhere.

But that's it for today. Depending on his decision, expect a lot of angry ranting about/ relieved praise of Ronaldo in two to three days.

Looks like I'm playing catch up today as instead of updating the blog yesterday I opted to spend all day drinking vodka (not alone, I should add, I don't have a problem or anything). Luckily, there wasn't much to write about anyway. The papers were all dominated by England's latest display of mediocrity, and the story of how brave John Terry 'overcame Moscow' by scoring in a meaning-less freindly against shit opponents. After the match, the arrogant twat came out with this gem:

 'I've shown that I'm a big man. I take full responsibility for what happened in Moscow but I'm a man for the big games and I've shown that.'

'A man for the big games'?! So is an end of season kickabout against the USA, those giants of international football, bigger than the Champions League Final now? I didn't think I could have less respect for that dick but this quote has proved me wrong. Apart from JT's wonder header the only aspects of the game worth noting were a typically lively performance from Rooney (whatever the papers were saying) and Hargreaves' display, which served as further proof that Fat Frank and Gerrard don't have to be forced into the same team when we have a perfectly good holding midfielder to play alonside Gerrard in a midfield four with Becks/Bentley on the right and Cole on the left. That, and the fact that Lumpard is shit for England will hopefully see him dropped, but I doubt it. Anyway, I've already written far too much on Eng-er-land so now to more important matters.

That hilarious FA cock-up, the unveiling of the Holy Trinity staute and, of course, Ronaldo-to-Madrid part 25342 were the only stories concerning United yesterday worth mentioning. For once, the FA has failed to screw over United, and, brilliantly, it was down to their own stupidity. The case against Fergie and Carlos was thrown out due to an error in transcription, but the FA is apparantly going to appeal against it's own disciplinary commision as the case could set a dangerous precedent at a time when everyone should be respecting the referee. But if the case was rejected because the FA fucked up, how does that set a precedent? All that the case proves is that if you disrespect the ref, and the FA subsequently fails to prove it through incompetance, you'll get away with it. If the FA had got thier facts right and decided to let Fergie and Carlos off anyway, that would be setting a precedant. But the FA probably needs to preserve what little credibility it has left, and no doubt that scouse twat Barwick doesn't want to miss an opportunity to get one over on United again, and so will probably persue this until United have to pay a token fine.

In less farcical news, a brilliant new statue of George Best, Bobby Charlton and Dennis Law, was unveiled opposite the East Stand on Sir Matt Busby Way yesterday. It was designed by Phillip Jackson, who also created the one of Sir Matt above the megastore.

At the unveiling, both Fergie and Dennis Law used the opportunity to try and persuade Ronaldo to stay. Fergie again compared him to George Best, and the King said what all United fans are thinking: Ronaldo does not need to go anywhere else, no other club can provide him with the success that we can. Which brings me smoothly to the other big story from yesterday, Real Madrid supposedly giving up on signing Ronaldo. Just thinking about this story pisses me off now, so I'm going to keep it short. Calderon has said:

"We are not going to start a conflict, you can't buy what the owner doesn't want to sell. We have not interfered with United's contract agreement with Cristiano Ronaldo. We're sorry that United – a club with which we have an excellent relationship – is annoyed with us because Real Madrid have nothing to do with that aspect.

"I want to clear this up with him and assure him we are not going to influence any player to break a contractual relationship. We are not going to start a conflict. If a club doesn't want to sell a player, why would we insist that they do sell him?"

Which is pretty much the same as what he said the other day, so, whilst The Telegraph says that this will come as a relief to United, I'm not going to get my hopes up that this is the end of the story. This latest back-down is probably a result of Carlos' (pretty funny) dig at Real Madrid and Spain, and the letter that David Gill is meant to have written to Madrid. And after all there are plenty more people adding fuel to this infuriaitng fire (including his fucking godfather who today said that he'd already made his mind up to join Madrid, who asked him?), so it is almost certain to rumble on until Ronaldo himself stops it, which had better be soon.

Today, any exciting United news is similarly thin on the ground. There are yet more contracts to sort out, Paddy Evra's being amongst them. Evra's situation is arguably as worrying as Ronaldo's, as he only has a year left, is already attracting the interest of clubs like AC Milan, and is demanding double his 35 grand a week wages or he's off. This shouldn't prove to be a problem, because, as Wes proved, if a player is good enough to warrant a raise, United will probably give it them. Like with Ronaldo, I'm tempted to be pissed of with Paddy's attitude, but when you see some of the shit players in the league on 50 an 60 grand a week he more than has a point. The other contract to be sorted is Carlos Tevez's but that should be pretty straightforward. Wayne Rooney said today that it's 'crucial' that Carlos stays, and both the club and the player want to sort out a permanent deal. United target Luis Fabiano is apparantly also close to agreeing a contract, but it's with Sevilla, so it looks like Fergie will have to look elsewhere for a new striker.

Another story concerning United (if a little indirectly) today is that of Sepp Blatter's plans to ruin English football, or more accurately, the Premiership. FIFA today voted in favour of the six-plus-five rule, which limits the number of foreign players in a team to five, and received the backing of the FA. Now I would love to see a United side full of English players, or even better lads from Stretford or Salford, but this is not the way to do it. If this is meant to be a way of improving the quality of home grown players, then, in England anyway, the way we bring through new players has to be overhauled completely. The coaching system in England produces a line of rubbish young players, and thats why our teams are full of foreigners, simply because they're better. Unless the coaching system changes, if this rule comes in, Premiership teams will be forced to field 6 shit Englishmen, and how is that supposed to improve the national side? The bottom line should be this, if a player is good enough, no matter where he's from, he should beable to play, and it's up to the FA to make sure that the English players are good enough.

But I've written far too much today considering the hangover I have, so I'm off. More tomorrow. Unless I get pissed again.

Is it just me or does everything that comes out of Madrid these days just make them seem more dispicable? Take this plea of innocence for example:

"We haven't done, nor will we do anything against the wishes of a club that we consider a friend like Manchester United," Calderon said on the club's official website.

"Our relationship with Manchester is magnificent and we will not do anything that would violate the will of a team, just as we would not like that done to us.

"We know Manchester doesn't want to sell and we have nothing to say. It's a problem between the player and his team."

To someone who's not been paying attention to this whole affair, this might seem like a genuine apology from the innocent, misunderstood party. But if, like most United fans are, you have been following this story closely, you can see this for the complete load of bollocks it is. When you look at the facts, it reads like a misbehaving child's protest of innocence. How Calderon can deny doing anthing against United's wishes when Ronaldo has been on the front page of Marca every day for the past week is beyond me. Everyone knows that the nationalist, pro-Real Madrid Marca is basically the club's unofficial mouthpiece, and yesterday the front page carried the story that Ronaldo was thier priority signing. Calderon obviously means that Real havn't done anything directly wrong, but this is completely missing the point. United aren't pissed off that Real have made an approach for Ronny, because they haven't. United's problem is with Real's constant attempts to unsettle the player in the press, and Calderon's assumption that United don't know about Real's link with Marca is an insult. Plus was he not listening yesterday when his own manager was talking as if they'd already got him? He even tries to unsettle Ronaldo further at the end of this statement, saying that ''It's a problem between the player and his team''. As far as I know, there is no problem between United and Ronaldo and there never has been. We want him to stay, and, for all his vagueness, he wants to stay too. Any sort of problem that arises between United and Ronaldo will be solely down to Real's underhand behaviour, and I hope FIFA recoginise that if that's what it comes down to.

I've only been writing this blog for a few days and I'm already sick of this story. I can now appreciate what Arsenal fans have been put through for the past few summers. Of course, I've sort of experienced this before when Becks left, but the difference then was Fergie wanted to sell him so Real didn't have to use thier unsettling tactics as much. Now though, reading garbage about your club and your best player every day is incredibly frustrating, and Arsenal seem to have had that more than anyone over the past few years (although they haven't completely gotten away with it this time either, those bastards in Spain also seem to think they've signed Hleb as well!). But again, that seems to be the only United story around today so, depressingly, the only thing left to talk about is- yawn- tonight's, guaranteed-to-be-the-worst-game-of-football-you've-seen-in-ages-could-not-give-a-fuck-about, England v USA friendly.

Every time I watch an England friendly I promise myself 'never again' but for some reason I always end up watching them. This is usually because there's not anything better on, or because I want to see some of the opposition players (although this can backfire- I only watched England v France to see Benzema, Ben Arfa or Nasri and none of them bloody played, resulting in the loss of 90 precious minutes of my life). I do also like to see how the United players get on though, and it's always good to see Beckham play, so I'll probably watch until the boredom gets too much. There was one interseting story to come out of the build up to tonight's shitefest though, and that was the news that, disappointingly, Fabio Capello seems to be one of the thousands of people who cannot see John Terry for what he really is. Don't get me wrong, I literally could not care less about who captains that shambles, (it would have been nice to see Rio get the job but it'd make no difference to me if Emile fucking Heskey does it) but I know that there are millions of people who do care, and that the England captain acts as a role model to thousands of kids. John Terry is about as good a role model as Dennis Wise, and how the press haven't worked that out yet is amazing. This is the man who supposedly demanded the clause in his contract which guarantees that he will always be the highest earner at Chelsea, the man who was caught on CCTV pissing on someone's table at a nightclub, the man who brags about regularly blowing 50 grand in the bookies, the man who racially abused Ledley King, his fucking England team mate, and got away with it, the man who undeniably spat at Carlos Tevez in Moscow (watch the video closely and see for yourself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ4KOIFLMbI) the list goes on. Yet good old 'JT' is always portrayed as the lion hearted inspiration of any team he plays in. When you compare him to Steven Gerrard (who as a rule I should despise but for some reason can't help but respect), who is a class player as well as a good captain and decent bloke off the pitch, or Rio, who has had his problems but is now becoming a great leader and is ten times the player Terry is, Terry's appointment seems even more baffling. But as I said, who cares, and as the chant goes 'You Can Stick Your Fucking England Up Your Arse'.

I f you havn't already read this on the official site, United have issued this statement today:

Manchester United has watched with growing irritation the comments attributed to Real Madrid over their alleged desire to sign Cristiano Ronaldo. 

The facts are:

1) The player is on a long-term contract and his registration is held by Manchester United
2) The player is not for sale

The club will have no alternative but to report Real Madrid to the world governing body, FIFA, if it continues to behave in this totally unacceptable fashion. These public attempts to unsettle the player are completely against the regulations and the club will not tolerate them any longer. 

In addition, the club is certain that they are a distraction for the Portuguese national squad as they prepare for the European Championships. No-one should be in any doubt that Manchester United will do everything in its power to keep its best players.

 Lets hope United follow this up if Madrid don't back off.

Firstly, it looks like I've riled my first ABU and I couldn't be happier (Daniel Morales, thank you, you jealous little cunt). As funny as I find the pathetic envy of United haters, it does seem weird that someone who hates United would take the time to not only read a blog directed at reds, but also make the effort to post a frankly embarrassing comment on it. But who am I to question how ABUs waste thier time? Who knows, maybe all this jealousy and hatred is only there to mask a secret love for United. But whatever, I don't give a fuck. If you're an ABU reading this only to have a go at United or me, then please carry on, waste your time before going back to the blogs on whatever third rate shit you support. 

And for the United fans this blog is aimed at, there hasn't been much new in the way of United news today. Gerard Pique is going to Barca, but that's been obvious for ages. Disappointing, as whenever he's played he's been quality and would have been more than capable of coming into the side in the future, but it seems fair enough. I usually don't like it when quality young players decide to just leave big clubs in order to get regular football rather than stay and improve and fight for a place. But Pique is probably too good to be sitting on the bench, and being a Barca fan a move there is too good to turn down. By all accounts he and Gabriel Milito were quality together at Zaragoza, so things should work out well for him and I hope they do. Plus if we are getting a reported £7-8m for him, a 21 year old centre half, its worked out fucking well for United too.

As for players coming in, apparantly Fergie's got £50m to spend, and all of that's going to be gone within the next two weeks. Like last season, it looks like all of our signings are going to be completed pretty quickly, and The Telegraph reckons Micah Richards, Dani Alves and Luis Fabiano are likely targets. It's been suggested that we could get Fabiano for as little as £7m due to issues over his ownership, and that would be an absolute steal for a player who scored 34 in 44 last season. He would add a bit of power to the attack, even though Fergie has seemed to prefer a more fluid front three. I'd prefer Alves to Richards as he would suit our attacking play better, plus Richards seems to be one of these bling bling twats who are in it for the lifestyle as much as the game (although admittedly that has been said about Rio in the past so you never know). Other players on the way out are Louis Saha (thats if any other club wants a player apparantly made of fine china), and Mikeal Silvestre, who I've always rated despite some dodgy displays over the years.

Predictably, Real Madrid, football's equivalent of an old pervert refusing to take no for an answer, have been lusting over Ronaldo even more. Bernt Schuster, who only a few weeks ago  said that signing Ronny would be impossible, now seems to think they've already got him, saying things like,  "Here he'd line up alongside world champions like (Fabio) Cannavaro, important players like Raul, Guti, (Ruud) Van Nistelrooy, Pepe, (Gabriel) Heinze.

"In this Madrid side the kid wouldn't create any problems. I only see it causing a problem for him." and, "For the fans this signing would be an amazing explosion similar to what happened here when Beckham arrived.

"This isn't England, and that change will affect him. We have to be clever about this and sort this problem out for the kid."
Calderon has come out with similar shit, and even Fernando Torres has decided to enter the fray (altough what the fuck it has to do with him is anyone's guess, maybe he's trying to add some drama to his own career as he must have realised by now that he made the biggest mistake of his life signing for those murdering scouse bastards). And Calderon had the nerve to say he was surprised that Fergie was pissed off with his side's shameful tactics. What a complete twat.

Well, even though I could rant on about the past season until we win it again in Rome next May, I reckon enough has been said on the subject and it's time to move on. That said, I might have to come back to Moscow etc. soon as the only things to write about over the next few weeks are going to be who United are (not) signing, more shite about Ronaldo, and pre season friendlies (by which I mean the ones I might actually get to, ruling out the ones in Japan/Kenya/North Korea or wherever the fuck they're going this summer).

There has been some interesting United-related stuff over the past couple of days though, not least Fergies admission that he won't be at United when he's 70. This didn't come as a surprise at first, after all he really has now achieved everything, and within the next couple of years will have well and truly knocked Liverpool 'off thier fucking perch' by overtaking thier number of titles, but now there seems to be a timescale on it I've started to get a bit anxious. This is mainly because, having never known another manager, United without Sir Alex is almost unimaginable to me. They could get in Roy Keane, Mark Hughes, even Cantona as a replacement and it would still seem weird. But still, now his days are numbered as it were, it's time to start really thinking about who will succeed the unsucceedable (don't know if thats a proper word, sounds like something George Bush would say).

I've heard Sir Bobby say that the best thing to do after Fergie goes would be to start afresh with someone with no connections to the club, and let him run the things his own way. I disagree with this, despite what happened after Sir Matt stepped down, and reckon the new man should have to know the club inside out already. Its been said that United is not just a club anymore, it's an institution, whose history dictates that things, such as the way we play and how we bring through new talent, should be done in a certain way. The new manager has to understand and respect this philosophy completely, or else we could lose the very essence of our club. Imagine if, say, Mourinho came in. Do you think an egotist like that would change his own brand of successful non-football to honour the style of Sir Matt, Tommy Doc and Fergie? The man who once said that winning at any cost was more important than entertaining the fans? No, he wouldn't. And plenty of other big managers wouldn't either. Winning at any cost might be good enough for the rentboys, who have no history and never will, or the scousers, who are desparate to regain the success the havn't had in almost 20 years, but for the most entertaining club in Britain?No chance. That's why the new manager has to be someone like Mark Hughes, Roy Keane or even Steve Bruce, someone who knows what it takes to make it at United. Its too early for Keano, and Steve Bruce would have to do something pretty special to warrant an appointment, but Sparky seems perfect for the job. He's worked wonders with Blackburn with no money, and Wales, with a set of shite players, and commands the respect of the players. The fans love him already, and his teams play football the right way.

David Gill seems to share this viewpoint, stating that the importance of keeping it within the club. He did go on to say that Carlos Quieroz is in the frame though, and I'm not too sure about that. I know Carlos has his critics, and I was never a fan of his at times overly European approach, but what he has brought to the club over the past few years has more than won me over. I still don't think he's manager material though. And thats not because of what happened at Real Madrid, no-one's safe in that circus, it's because great coaches don't often make great managers (Steve McClaren anyone?), plus he seems to have the charisma of Avram Grant. His contacts and knowledge of European football and the transfer market have been invaluable though, so whatever happens I hope Carlos sticks around.

Apart from a load of transfer rumours, the only other United news around at the moment is, sigh, the increasingly annoying Ronaldo saga. I'm not having a go at him or anything, after all without his goals this season we wouldn't have done nearly as well as we did, and he is without doubt the best in the world now, but I wish he'd stop messing around. Lets face it, he's going nowhere. Ronny's not daft and must surely know that a move to any other club would be a step down. His contradictory/vague comments are clearly aimed at getting a new deal/ a result of his ego. To be fair, he is probably entitiled to a bigger contract, and although I usually hate players holding thier clubs to ransom, United should give him whatever he wants. I just don't see why he should negotiate his contract, so to speak, in public. Throwing his future into doubt in the media is actually pretty disrespectful to the fans and the club, and could cause unrest amoungst the other players. Plus I thought it was the job of those parasitic bastards, or 'agents', to negotiate new contracts. But today he said again that he's happy at United, even if he still wants to go to Spain one day, so lets hope thats the end of it...which it almost certainly won't be.

One things for sure though, Real Madrid, particularly Calderon, are an absolute disgrace and have shown a distict Chelsea-esque lack of class and respect in this whole saga. They seem to be forgetting that they are dealing with Man United, and no matter what they've acheived in the past, we are Champions of Europe now and obviously won't just be walked over. If what they are doing is'nt 'tapping up' I don't know what is, and FIFA can't do anything about it because they're doing it through the media, particularly what is effectively thier own sports rag, Marca. And speaking of Madrid, it looks like that crook Abramovich has again got his own pathetic joke of a football club confused with a club like Real. The sacking of Grant was more predictable than Liverpool doing fuck all in the league, and even though he got on my nerves, you have to feel sorry for him. Since when have Chelsea had the right to sack a manager who took them to within touching distance of the Champions League? The genuinely big European clubs like Barca and Milan might do stuff like this because over the years they have earned the right to expect success but Chelsea? Chelsea are a nothing more than a rich man's plaything devoid of any morals, class, shame or history and its about time everyone associated with that club realised just how lucky they are.

Here ends today's rant.

'Anelka...VAN DER SAR SAVED IT! ITS UNITED AGAIN!!'

Its been four days since I heard the great Clive Tyldesley say those words and I'm still going round grinning like a dick, celebrating at every opportunity, and generally being nice to everyone, and I can't see my mood lowering any time soon. United are Champions of Europe again and this time I plan to enjoy every minute of it. I was only 12 in '99 and even though I knew that winning the treble was huge, I don't think I truly appreciated what winning the European Cup means. Don't get me wrong, I knew all about Munich and '68, but at the time I just thought of the European Cup as another trophy, one which I'd never seen United win having been lucky enough to see them dominate the league as a kid. This time though, being older and wiser (when it comes to United), I really know what winning this trophy means to the reds, this year of all years. The feeling I got when VDS saved that penalty was almost too much; I was'nt even pissed but the first thing I did was hug the lad next to me like a brother, before crying like a particularly girly little girl (although not as much as John Terry-prick). Fifty years on from Munich, we had won the title playing football the way it should be played, and we had won the European Cup in typically dramatic United fashion. We had won the Golden Double for the Babes. It does not get much more perfect than that.

This has probably all been said already, but here's a few thoughts on the match and the aftermath.

• Is it me or has everyone forgotten how well we played in the first half? I know we were pegged back in the second but, being Chelsea, that was always going to happen after they got the equaliser. Some of our play in the first half an hour was as good as I've seen all season. The link up between Wes and Scholes for the goal was brilliant, and the move where Rooney hit that pass from all of 60 yards for Ronny to cross into Tevez was breathtaking. Every time we went forward it looked like a goal, and Ballack and Fat Frank were in disarray. Yeah Chelsea did well during the rest of the game, and at times we did ride our luck, but they were not, no matter what that fat bastard jabba-the-hutt-a-like now unemployed Grant says, the better side.
• Whilst our goal was created through brilliant link up play and scored by the best player in the world, theirs summed up everything about that joke of a football club: no class, no invention, route one, and above all, lucky.
• Fergie, Giggs, Bobby Charlton, Rio, pretty much anyone associated with United has said that fate played its part and I agree. Just think, 100 years since we first won the league, 60 years since Sir Matt's first trophy, 50 since Munich, 40 since '68, 25 since Fergie's first European trophy, Giggs' record breaking game, and the day before George Best's birthday (alright so that one might be pushing it a bit). No matter what you beleive about fate, that is a lot of coincidences. Plus I did say a prayer to Sir Matt just before Terry missed, so you also have me to thank.
• How fitting was it that the two biggest cunts in football, Drogba and Terry, were the ones to fuck it up for them. But whilst Drogba has rightly been vilified, poor old 'JT' has had nothing but sympathy. Has everyone forgotten that he's a greedy, cheating, arrogant ,racist bastard? Although The Times did describe his miss as 'tragic or hilarious, depending on your viewpoint'.
• And to think that as little as two years ago, United were apparantly on the way down, Fergie has lost it, we were on the brink of financial ruin thanks to the Glazers, and Ronaldo was still supposedly just a show off.  To borrow another quote from the great Clive, never write off Manchester United.

Now then, thought I'd start this off with a quick introduction. I'm Rob, a lifelong matchgoing red from Manchester and I've recently noticed a distinct lack of decent United blogs, whilst other teams seem to have them in abundance. This, along with quality fanzines like Red News, and of course the glorious season just gone have inspired me to start this blog on all things United. Here you'll find everything from transfer rumours to match reports, scouse bashing to Saha injury updates (He's out for another six months after stubbing his toe this morning by the way). I might even try to find out who labelled Liam Miller 'the new Roy Keane'.

'But who wants to read the ramblings of some no-mark twat?' you might think, and I would'nt blame you. After all, every other website/page in a newspaper carries news of United these days, and there are to be honest far more reliable and credible sources of United news on the net(rednews.co.uk being one), but I hope this blog offers a slightly different take on United stories and opinions aimed at genuine reds from Ancoats to Sydney. So that means 'Man U' fans of the Soccer AM/Nuts generation can kindly piss off. Any ABUs, however, can read on, I'd love nothing more than for this blog to fuel your frankly hilarious jealousy.