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Stoke City 0-2 Manchester United: van Persie celebrates in style

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Stretford-end in Man United, Match Reports, Premier League, Stoke City 2 Comments »

Robin van Persie celebrates with Sir Alex Ferguson following his goal for Manchester United

Manchester United edged closer to an unprecedented twentieth league title with a 2-0 victory over relegation-threatened Stoke City. Michael Carrick netted a early toe poked goal from a corner, whilst Robin van Persie scored a second half penalty and celebrated with manager Sir Alex Ferguson on the sideline. United dominated proceedings from the start with Stoke City having limited opportunities, although Nemanja Vidic was lucky not to give away a penalty after slipping over and bringing down Kenwyne Jones in the process. Manchester United are now fifteen points clear, with six games to go – although Manchester City have a game in hand, with Stoke City three points above the drop. Here we discuss the talking points of the game and invite comments from both sets of fans.

Rating: 9.8/10 (8 votes cast)

Rating: +2 (from 2 votes)

Robin van Persie deserves to be crowned PFA Player of the year

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Stretford-end in Awards, Liverpool, Man United, Spurs 13 Comments »

Robin van Persie scores again for Manchester United

Robin van Persie has been a pivotal part of Manchester United’s title pursuit this season

Many fans ridicule it and simply remark that, in the grand scheme of the things, it really doesn’t matter. No, no – I’m not talking about the International break, but personal awards for players. Yes, the European Cup, Championship, FA Cup and League Cup are all more important – agreed. But when one of your players, like Wayne Rooney in 2010, Giggs in 2009 and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2008 (and 2007) are awarded with such a prize, their contributions has aided the club throughout the season. Sure, sometimes you lose out – like in 2010 – but the award is a pretty good indication of a player who has made the difference in the season. This is why Robin van Persie must be crowned PFA Footballer of the year ahead of the exceptional Luis Suarez and brilliant Gareth Bale.

Rating: 8.5/10 (13 votes cast)

Rating: +3 (from 9 votes)

Manchester United vs. Reading match preview & line up

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Stretford-end in Man United, Match Previews, Premier League, Reading No Comments »

Wayne Rooney is congratulated by Rio Ferdinand

Wayne Rooney scores a brace against Reading in the 4-3 win back in December

Manchester United host Reading at Old Trafford as the two clubs embark in only the 19th fixture between the two teams. United have beaten Reading twice this season. A crazy 4-3 Manchester United victory, with seven first half goals was the first fixture, and more recently – the 2-1 victory in the FA Cup, where Phil Jones picked up an ankle injury. Its top versus bottom and as always we have a cracking view from the opposition, injury news, potential lineup an prediction for the match. We welcome comments from both sets of fans.

Rating: 8.4/10 (7 votes cast)

Rating: +4 (from 4 votes)

Robin van Persie praises Rene Meulensteen coaching

Posted on February 07, 2013 by Stretford-end in Man United, Man United News, Players, Quotes No Comments »

Manchester United's Robin van Persie celebrates scoring

Robin van Persie praises Manchester United coach Rene Meulensteen for his goals this season

Robin van Persie has thanked United’s long serving coach Rene Meulensteen for his goal scoring exploits this season. Meulensreen celebrated ten years at Old Trafford last season and is an extremely well liked and respected member of the coaching team. He has helped the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney develop into the players they are today. The Dutch coach, who retired through injury at the age of 29, helped a young Ronaldo develop by working on when he should dribble and when to pass the ball, which of course helped towards the incredible 42 goal haul in 2007/08. It appears he is having the same impact with Robin van Persie.

Rating: 10.0/10 (7 votes cast)

Rating: +2 (from 2 votes)

Wigan Athletic 0-4 Man United: a near perfect away performance

Posted on January 02, 2013 by nameonthetrophy in Doron, Man United, Match Reports, Premier League, Wigan Athletic 5 Comments »

Wigan away

Rafael and Welbeck celebrated van Persie’s final goal at Wigan

Author: Doron

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United travelled to Wigan aiming to finish the busy festive fixture schedule unbeaten and with a win. The DW Stadium, so often a three points banker for United, held unpleasant memories from last season and United would be keen to ensure the same errors weren’t repeated. Wigan have been flirting dangerously with the relegation places once again after just one win in their previous seven games. Fergie recalled Rafael, Ferdinand, Giggs, van Persie and Hernandez to the starting line up. As ever, we welcome comments from both sets of fans.

Rating: 9.1/10 (14 votes cast)

Rating: +3 (from 5 votes)

Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal: rivalry put on hold

Posted on November 05, 2012 by nameonthetrophy in Arsenal, Doron, Man United, Match Reports, Premier League 5 Comments »

Patrice Evra scores for Manchester United against Arsenal in 2-1 victory

Author: Doron

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After a double-header against Chelsea, United faced another London-based side as Arsenal came to Old Trafford. It’s early in the season but Arsenal are already off the pace set by United, Chelsea and City – a defeat would only reassert that a title challenge will probably not happen this year. For United, there was a chance to go top with Chelsea playing at Swansea later in the day. We welcome comments from both sets of supporters.

Rating: 10.0/10 (7 votes cast)

Rating: +3 (from 3 votes)

Manchester United vs. Arsenal preview

Posted on November 02, 2012 by Stretford-end in Arsenal, Man United, Match Previews 7 Comments »

Manchester United beat Arsenal 2-1 at the Emirates back in January

Authors: Stretford_End

Manchester United host Arsenal at Old Trafford for the 187th league meeting between the two clubs. United come into this game following a league win and a league cup defeat to Chelsea, whilst Arsenal beat QPR last Saturday 1-0 and came back from 4-0 down to win an epic cup tie midweek against Reading. Robin van Persie will lineup for the first time against his old club, whilst the North Londoners will want to try and avenge the 8-2 defeat from last season. We welcome comments from both sets of fans.

Rating: 6.6/10 (5 votes cast)

Rating: +3 (from 5 votes)

Man United 4-2 Stoke City – excitement, maturity and a genius

Posted on October 21, 2012 by nameonthetrophy in Doron, Man United, Match Reports, Premier League, Stoke City 7 Comments »

Michael Owen shakes Wayne Rooney’s hand

Authors: Stretford_End and Doron

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Normal football interrupted the international break and Stoke visited Old Trafford to try to end a barren run of results in the red part of Manchester. United’s last game had seen them win confidently at Newcastle but many days had passed since then and plenty of players have been with their countries so while on paper this looked like a home-banker, things are never that simple. With Chelsea winning at Spurs in the early kick off the pressure was on United to get the win and keep the gap at just four points. We welcome comments from both sets of supporters.

Rating: 9.4/10 (19 votes cast)

Rating: +9 (from 9 votes)

Robin van Persie, goalscoring and past United greats

Posted on October 09, 2012 by Stretford-end in Man United, Players, Statistics 2 Comments »

Robin van Persie has been a massive hit at Manchester United since his move from Arsenal

Robin van Persie has settled in quite nicely at Old Trafford since his £24 million move from Arsenal in August. Many Arsenal fans suggested that he was too old and injury prone to warrant such a fee, however his seven goals in nine appearances, including a superb hattrick against Southampton, highlights the immense quality of the Dutchman.

Many reds will be eager to see more of the Wayne Rooney Robin van Persie partnership, that lined up in a 4-4-2 diamond against Newcastle at the weekend, but with International week upon us – I thought I’d look back in history at some of United’s glorious greats and see what their goals per game ratio was like.

Rating: 8.5/10 (8 votes cast)

Rating: +6 (from 6 votes)

CFR Cluj 1-2 Man United: Rooney to Robin and some winning performances

Posted on October 03, 2012 by nameonthetrophy in Champions League, Doron, Man United, Match Reports 7 Comments »

Robin van Persie celebrates his second goal with Wayne Rooney

Author: Doron

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Game two of this season’s Champions League adventure saw United go to Romania for the second season running. Last year it was Otelul Galati, this year it’s CFR Cluj. United left some experience back in Manchester though to rest or recover – Giggs, Scholes and Carrick opened up spots for some home-grown youngsters instead – Lingard, Tunnicliffe and Michael Keane. Cluj were something of an unknown quantity but nevertheless, a win was expected.

Rating: 10.0/10 (10 votes cast)

Rating: +4 (from 4 votes)

Posts Tagged With 'Robin van Persie'

Stoke City 0-2 Manchester United: van Persie celebrates in style

Robin van Persie deserves to be crowned PFA Player of the year

Manchester United vs. Reading match preview & line up

Robin van Persie praises Rene Meulensteen coaching

Wigan Athletic 0-4 Man United: a near perfect away performance

Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal: rivalry put on hold

Manchester United vs. Arsenal preview

Man United 4-2 Stoke City – excitement, maturity and a genius

Robin van Persie, goalscoring and past United greats

CFR Cluj 1-2 Man United: Rooney to Robin and some winning performances

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