At the start of the 2024/25 season, it would have been taken for granted that Manchester City would be playing in the Champions League in the 2025/26 campaign. As for Manchester United, fans may have hoped that they too could get back amongst the elite. After their success against Man…

Given Manchester United’s relative struggles in recent years, it’s easy to forget that no side has won the English top-flight title more times than the Red Devils. With 20 championships in the bag, they stand alone at the top of the tree – although Liverpool might well have drawn level…

Spring is here and as we see first snow drops, then crocuses, then daffodils, then tulips, fruit blossom and bluebells, the cyclical nature of life is apparent. Night follows day, follows night, the tides ebb and the tides flow. Sport, like much of nature, tends to be cyclical too and…

With the March international break behind us, and England recording the two routine wins that everyone expected them to achieve, thoughts turn back to domestic action. Most teams, however, will have to wait a little longer for the football to resume, because before the Premier League gets going again, we…

Manchester United are one of the biggest and most successful football clubs in the world. And yet, in recent times, they have become, dare we say it, something of a laughing stock. Since Sir Alex Ferguson left the club, over a decade ago now, at the end of the 2012/13…

Manchester United are the most successful team in English football and that fact is even more evident when we restrict ourselves to the Premier League era. They have won the Premier League title a massive 13 times, finishing second on a further seven occasions. Manchester City, however, are second, with…

Back in May 2024, Manchester United upset the odds to overcome Manchester City in the FA Cup final in front of a packed Wembley Stadium. Kobbie Mainoo was the Man of the Match and scored one of his side’s two goals as they produced a superb display to claim a…

There are several important dates in the football calendar that come around every year, and that fans will have in their diaries, or certainly in the back of their minds. The date that the new season’s fixtures are announced is one, the first and last games of the campaign, the…