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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.

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Keith Harris, the high profile member of the “Red Knights” who is currently apparently involved in the Liverpool Takeover, says there is “no point” in making a similar bid for Manchester United. Harris’ latest comments reveal him to be either painfully naïve, at best, or an untrustworthy publicity leech at worst.

Continue reading Keith Harris: Less honest than the Glazers

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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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With Kyle otherwise engaged, Yolkie leads you through the morning United stories – a friendly loss in Kansas, a nice change for Fergie, a former legend giving a current player advice, Nani playing with a broken toe, how to deal with your legends and also a reminder of our Green and Gold campaign and how our international readers can make a real difference to the future of our club.

Continue reading 26/07/2010 Stretty Stories

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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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When it was finally “revealed” via statement yesterday that the Red Knights were effectively announcing their intention to NOT make a takeover bid for Manchester United in the near future, I wasn’t surprised. In fact, the more news that has come out in the last few weeks, the less confident I was about a bid at all and the more suspicious I got about the motives of supposed saviours.

Continue reading Red Knights bid: Do you feel let down?

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Apologies for the somewhat misleading title. We are not suggesting in any realistic tone that Cristiano Ronaldo is about to depart Real Madrid and return to Old Trafford, despite the fact that such a comment is not as absurd as it would have seemed 6 months ago. Nonetheless, one year since the best player in the world left Manchester United, a void exists, and when looking at the potential options, his name appears as likely as any.

Continue reading Could Ronaldo be the next Ronaldo?

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Anyone that reads this blog on a regular basis will know and understand what a Fergie supporter I am, however I think we all agree that we do not believe him one bit when he speaks about the lack of quality/value in the transfer market. Today, we’ve seen Barcelona snap up Spanish forward David Villa for a cool £34Million, whereas Manchester City have placed a £20Million bid for Manchester United target James Milner of Aston Villa – whereas Chief Executive David Gill believe United have already done the majority of their spending, with the signings of virtual unknowns Chris Smalling and Javier Hernandez. This has all coincided with the news that the PIK loan that the Glazer family took out in 2006 – will increase by £75million. No market value, or the real reason – no money to spend as United are funding the Glazer greed?

Continue reading Manchester United Debt – Fergie: No market value

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Gillian Duffy may get a little more annoyed that another Eastern European has been linked with a job in the North West, although hopefully my explanation that this would be a great thing will not come across as clumsily as that of our current Prime minister – Mr Gordon Brown. Luka Modric has been in England for two years now and has shown the reason why Spurs paid over £16Million for him. I mentioned on Twitter a few weeks ago that I felt that Modric ‘looked like’ a Manchester United player. That will of course infuriate Spurs fans, who rightfully will claim that he is their player and he is going nowhere. If I was Spurs I wouldn’t sell him in a million years, however if Spurs do fail to land a Champions League spot, then who knows where Modric could play next season.

Continue reading Luka Modric transfer to Manchester United?

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Every now and again you get a defeat that is so demoralising you just don’t know what to say – which is why i’ve taken so long to blog about our exit on away goals to Bayern Munich on Wednesday. Like in 1993, 1998 and 2002 United have exited the competition without losing the overall tie and generally outclassing the opposition for the first 45 minutes. I hope to examine the overall performance from both legs, mistakes made and where this leaves us for the rest of the season.

Continue reading Bayern Munich analysis, post mortem & reaction

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