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The month of August saw United kick off the season in decent fashion. 7 points out of 9, a convincing victory over champions Chelsea in the Community Shield, and some encouraging performances by some players who were all but written off prior to a ball being kicked. Come this way to see who we voted player of the month, goal of the month and see who’s heading our Fantasy Football League..

Continue reading Stretford-End.com August in Review

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Former Manchester United defender David May recently chatted with Yolkie for the website. In case you missed part one of the interview, where he revealed his thoughts on Eric Cantona’s kung fu kick and opened his heart on the anguish of missing out of the Champions League Final in 1999, click here to catch up. Otherwise, to hear more from David and Yolkie chatting about United Nights – a superb event created by Maysie where supporters can not only meet their heroes but have a chat, photograph and beer with them – read on. David has also very kindly offered one Stretford-End.com reader an amazing opportunity, to get free entry to the next event, so to find out how you can enter our exclusive competition, read on.

Continue reading David May Exclusive interview part 2 : Competition

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With the new Premier League rules now in effect, Sir Alex has named his 25-man squad for the Premier League this season. United registered 24 players including long-term absentee Owen Hargreaves. The gaffer cannot make any changes to the squad until January when the winter transfer window opens. None of these should come as a surprise, but let’s introduce our squad…

Homegrown: Neville, Rio, Brown, Owen, Rooney, Giggs, Carrick, Scholes, O’Shea, Evans, Fletcher, Gibson, and De Laet

Other: Van der Sar, Evra, Hargreaves, Anderson, Berbatov, Park, Chicharito, Vidic, Nani, Valencia, and Kuszczak

U-21s: Smalling, Fabio, Rafael, Obertan, Macheda, Bebe, and Amos

Discuss the 25-man squad in the forum.

You can follow Kyle on Twitter at KDill_MUFC.

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Yolkie will be having a chat with Manchester United cult icon David May for the website. To find out how you could ask him a question – and how you can meet David and other legends from the club’s past, read on.

Continue reading Ask David May !

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Hot on the heels of our Fantasy Football PrizePlay competition, Stretford-End.com are pleased to announce another competition (just for fun this time) – our Scorecast prediction competition! Scoring will unfortunately only start from week 2 of the Premier League due to late set up, but the good news is, all of you who joined our Fantasy Football League can use the same log in details. Read more to find out how to join.

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The participants for this season’s inaugural Stretford-End.com Fantasy Football PrizePlay have been finalised. The competition, which will see the winner awarded a Newton Heath green and gold jersey – to coincide with our green and gold campaign – has been popular on the site and on Twitter over the last month. We hope that with your continued support we can show the club that the worldwide supporter base – United – will never be divided.

Thank you to all that joined up and in doing so helped support our Green and Gold campaign (the official Stretford-End.com campaign to ensure the club don’t release a green and gold shirt under the Glazers ownership; while also signifying our desire for the colours to be part of the club after which time the Glazers relinquish control of the club).

You can still join the Fantasy Football competition but by entering you will NOT be considered for our Prize Play competition. To find out if you made the cut,  and how you can participate in the non-prize league, continue to read.

Continue reading Fantasy Football PrizePlay participants list

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Stretford-End.com understands Manchester United will not sign German prodigy Mesut Ozil this summer. The Werder Bremen midfielder impressed last season but really shot into the public eye when he helped destroy Australia and England in the World Cup; however, we can confirm that he will not be joining the Old Trafford club this summer.

Continue reading Manchester United will NOT sign Mesut Ozil Exclusive

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Stretford-End.com is proud to announce our inaugural Fantasy Football competition. As usual, we wanted to be unlike other fan-run blogs who are running similar competitions – that’s why, in accordance with our Green and Gold campaign, we have decided to offer the green and gold Newton Heath replica shirt as a prize. For details on how to enter, keep reading.

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Manchester United are heading back to the USA hoping to take advantage of some of the country’s recent heightened interest in the sport; just as Stretford-End.com works on introducing a new correspondent from that side of the pond. As United hope for a strengthened stranglehold on the commercial market in America, Yolkie took time to welcome our new features writer, Kyle, before he gets to see the club he loves in his own country (Kyle, that is, not Yolkie).

Continue reading As the USA welcomes United, Stretford-End.com welcomes the USA

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It’s not often that Stretford-End.com is honoured with the privilege of announcing breaking news regarding the world’s biggest club, but we did just that on Sunday when I announced through the website and my twitter feed that we had WORLD exclusive pictures of the new Manchester United shirts for next season. Another blog website published our pictures and one of their readers sent in a picture of their own which had the shirts and socks. Yesterday we were shocked to find out that one of the more established United fan websites had run our pictures without giving credit to their source but we were stunned this morning when the Sun newspaper – yes, that’s the Sun national newspaper – proudly ran the shirts on their BACK PAGE a full THREE DAYS with the EXACT SAME PICTURES after we broke the news to you.

Continue reading Sun claim our exclusive pictures of United’s new kit 3 days late

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