tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52933232011-12-30T11:45:04.419ZManchester United unofficial fans' Football thoughts and opinion about everything Old Trafford related from Red News, the first Manchester United fanzine founded in 1987.RNnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-50031459514438957212011-11-25T01:47:00.001Z2011-11-25T01:47:04.393Z

Remembering George…RIP George - 25.11.2005 by Tom Clare The Best Years of My Life Since George’s passing in late November 2005, I have been asked so many times by people who never ever had the privilege of seeing him play, whether or not all the stories that abound about his skill are true, or if they are just some exaggeration. It is so difficult explaining to them how brilliant George was. It

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This interview first appeared in RN183 in September 2011 - you can read interviews and features and much more in every edition of the fanzine - entirely different from web content, exclusive to the mag. Different - don't miss a single edition. http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.php UK 10 issue sub £30.00 inc p&p Europe 10 issue sub £40.00 inc p&p Rest Of The World 10 issue sub £45.00 inc p&p

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Sir Matt and Sir Alex - The Wonder of Two by Tom Clare by Tom Clare for Red News, an extract of this appeared in RN184 - this is the full article, copyright Tom Clare, Red News 2011 Tom Clare's Forever A Babe In 1878, the workers of the Carriage and Wagon Works at the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway were granted permission by their bosses to form a football team. From those first

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Firstly of course the current edition of Red News - RN184 - is a special SAF-25 years mag which you can order/subscribe to at www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.php Sir Alex Ferguson: The Official Manchester United Celebration of 25 Years at Old Trafford “alex” During Alex Ferguson’s 25 years at Manchester United the club has gone so far. We’ve seen a few very important nay, defining, one-nil

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MY FERGUSON-ERA BEST XI - By Will Tidey, author of Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester United by Will Tidey Will will be signing copies of his book at 12pm at Deansgate Waterstones on Saturday. As we approach Sir Alex Ferguson’s 25th anniversary at United, it seems fitting to re-visit a debate that’s been played out thousands of times during his reign. If

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In the days before the PLC, one of the pleasures of attending the AGM was having a “one-to-one” with the manager once the press had departed. Holding court in front of an admiring throng, we would engage in a two way exchange that made us believe we were an integral part of the decision making process, whilst secrets were revealed that massaged our egos no end. For me this started with the

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Michael Owen: Anywhere But United? by @Moultyx on twitter from the site http://giventoscore.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/anywhere-but-united/ who have kindly allowed reproduction here at RN. Michael Owen is not a stupid individual. He knew that signing for Manchester United, when he was painted so strongly in Liverpool colours, was going to upset a few people. It did and to be fair many of them

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Tom Clare's Forever A Babe A Very Special Day 55 Years Ago Tomorrow - October 6th 1956 by Tom Clare Saturday, October 6th 1956, was a rather special day for a certain young man who was just approaching his 19th birthday, which would be celebrated on the following, Thursday, October 11th. He was at that time, serving his country doing two years National Service with the Royal Army Ordnance

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A Red News Exclusive. United author Iain McCartney on Gary Neville's Testimonial Dinner Iain McCartney's 30 Memorable games from the 1950s The sun was beginning to set on the blue Mediterranean sky line, but its final rays of another thirty something degree heat glistened off the red, black and white ribboned Premiership trophy, standing proudly on a plinth with the impressive dome of Our

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The Blue Plaques for Tommy Taylor and Duncan Edwards by Tom Clare for Red News Tom Clare's Forever A Babe In September 2010, I was contacted through Red News by schoolmaster Chris Hirst. Chris is the Director of Learning at Stretford High School, which is situated on Greatstone Road, just a stone’s throw away from the Old Trafford Stadium. The reason that Chris contacted me was to see if I

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Milking it for success! To say Manchester United have history in the Northern Ireland Milk Cup is a huge understatement. Looking back to 1991, Utd won the then U16 competition with a team that included a bunch of then unknowns such as Gary Neville, David Beckham, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt, who went on to become the famed “class of ‘92” along with earlier Milk Cup Alum Ryan Giggs after

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Tom Clare's Forever A Babe In The Shadow of a Giant’s Footsteps Nostalgia as I have always said, is a wonderful thing; simply and purely because nostalgia can be made to be anything that you want it to be. It can also be a dangerous thing in that it can cloud your judgment as you yearn for those past eras; those past personalities, and the events which they contributed to. Every generation

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Red News interviewed James Scowcroft for a fascinating part 1 in RN178, and part 2 continues in the new RN181 out this Friday on July 22nd. Order below and read the first part here in its entirety. http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.php UK 10 issue sub £30.00 inc p&p Europe 10 issue sub £40.00 inc p&p Rest Of The World 10 issue sub £45.00 inc p&p Subscribe to the mag as a PDF on your iphone

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We're the Famous Man United - Old Trafford in the '80s: The Players' Stories by Andy Mitten in paperback, now out for under £5! this first appeared in Red News 156 A life tragically ended at the age of 33 in a car accident, his loan spell was the season before Crooks' as he came to us after his mixed time at Madrid (the first English player to play for them) to help us out as we prepared for

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This interview first appeared in the May issue of the mag, RN180 We are all part of the Manchester United story. Granted, some roles may be more important than others, but we are all connected to the MUFC mechanism and its heart. Players, fans; we all have a part to play, that is linked for a common aim, for shared ideals and idealism. Eddie Lewis crossed over, his father the fan, to son the

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-9803014026972966072011-06-22T17:38:00.003Z2011-06-22T21:42:02.855Z

this article first appeared in RN165, just an example of the varied pieces - on past and present events at MUFC with opinion - that appear in the fanzine. http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.php UK 10 issue sub £30.00 inc p&p Europe 10 issue sub £40.00 inc p&p Rest Of The World 10 issue sub £45.00 inc p&p Subscribe to the mag as a PDF on your iphone/itouch/ipad/smartphone for just £15 - http

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by Robert Winton, questions by Red News RN: How did you travel down to the '68 Final, what are your memories of the build up? I had applied for tickets in the quarter final stages when we were playing Gornik Zabrze & was successful in the ballot. I remember listening to the radio commentary when we were playing Real Madrid in the 2nd leg of the semi finals & it looked like we weren't going to

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Red News readers remember 1968 and our other Finals. Today; Greg Barnes. Manchester United 2010/11 Season Review DVD out June 13th, advance discount order here How did you travel down to the '68 Final, what are your memories of the build up? Yellow Ways not very yellow (more of an off beige) coach from Central Station (GMex). It managed to avoid the newly constructed and totally empty M1 on

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In Issue 178 of Red News... Out April 9th 2011. We go back in time for a special feature on a seismic year for MUFC, 1986, with exclusive pictures of United fans and stories. Jamie Scowcroft, the footballer who is a Red, tells us what it's like to face United and about his support, Editorial on rotation, rotation, rotation, Paul Ring on what is the United way, Steph on Fergie and the media,

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Eddie Colman - The Italian Marble Statue Shortly after Eddie died in the Munich Air Disaster, his family commissioned a small statue to be made of him, and for it to be carved in white Italian marble. The sculptor did a terrific job on it, but I can't remember if the family bore the 2000 pounds (which was an enormous amount back then) bill, or if the money was raised by public donation. My

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This article is the type of unique, thought provoking content that appears in every issue of Red News, and first appeared in RN176, you can see for yourself each month by subbing at http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.php It can be both enjoyable and infuriating wondering ‘what if...?’ to a particular moment in time or incident involving United. As Paulo249 on the RN Forum put it: 'What if

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-2827556072503105852011-02-21T12:54:00.002Z2011-02-21T12:54:30.264Z

Over the last few weeks one thread that caught my eye was the one which referenced Ryan Giggs being voted as United’s “best ever player.” Fair enough, in this day and age of media and television hype, everybody has got an opinion and I have no problem with that. It would be a boring old world, and make for boring conversation if we all agreed. However, I did look at that poll and it had me

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go to http://www.rednews.co.uk/forum/index.php for ordering details

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BBC reporter John Sweeney on Manchester United saving himextract from his exclusive interview in RN170, which you can order at http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.php or http://www.rednews.co.uk/current-issue.php"I’m an old war reporter and I owe a debt of honour to football. I can’t remember how many times I’ve been up to my neck in shit in some awful place with a lunatic threatening to put

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Daniel Harris' On the Road is out now, available via the links below or in most Waterstone's stores, WHSmith in the Greater Manchester area, HMV in Greater Manchester and Oxford Street, and Foyles. So how does an ex-City lawyer turn into a canny United author?Well, I’d always wanted to be a writer, and only ended up a City lawyer following an unfortunate confluence of circumstances, mainly

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by Matthew Eastley, author of From Bovril to Champagne (ordering details below) where these extracts come from, a highly recommended book on the 70s FA Cup, now outThe sun rises on Cup Final morning and it looks like being a warm one, which is hardly surprising as we’re closer to June than April. The red exodus from the north west is in full flow.Train after train pulls out of Lime Street or

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this appeared as the Editorial of RN166, printed on the 10th March 2010. You can read thought provoking pieces in every edition of the mag and ordering details are provoided at the end of this article...Like any other printed organ containing opinion pieces, Red News is always going to contain features that some people like and enjoy, or don't, or gel with, because just like an after match pint

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This first appeared in RN158, in May 2009. The mag often carries exclusive interviews with past and present players, and has lots more in it too!Order your copy at http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.phpfrom RN 158, May 2009RN: How do you rate your form this season?PE: It was very good in the beginning and I think when I got the four match ban and my injury, it was a little bit low. I don't

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United v Liverpool in the ‘60’sManchester United versus Liverpool. Just the very mention of this fixture triggers off all kinds of thoughts and emotions. Down the years, the clubs have been engaged in some gargantuan games against each other. Although the rivalry is exceptionally fierce on the field of play, that rivalry has never exceeded the tribalism that we see so prevalent in both sets of

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Old Trafford – “The Theatre of Dreams”It is ironic that it was none other than Sir Bobby Charlton who christened Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium “the Theatre of Dreams.” Speaking back in 1978 when the club was celebrating its centenary year, Sir Bobby said; “I’ll always have a great affection for this place. I suppose that I have put a lot of blood and tears into it. And to see the

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as ever RN brings you more extensive news and exclusives than anyone else. RN contributor Tom Clare kindly typed this up for RN readers in our VIP section last night at http://www.rednews.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=570046 RN provides news that the mass media pick up directly from here, and the papers will nick these quotes in the next day or two. All we ask is for normal Reds to realise what

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Ralph Milne – When the floodlights fade.By Mick RobertsDuring January 2010 MUTV broadcast a half hour documentary on Ralph Milne focussing on his highs and lows as a footballer. For those that missed it here’s a transcript I’ve pulled together. The story was told from several perspectives; one focussing on the comments from four supporters who obviously idolised Ralph, comments from Ralph himself

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See how to order at http://www.rednews.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=78369

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(now RN contributor Tom Clare has taken some time typing this up for Red News readers, so a big thanks for that and any hacks about to steal, please credit, thanks)Dwight Yorke Interview with BBC Radio ManchesterIan Cheeseman of BBC Radio Manchester interviewed Dwight Yorke recently. Here is a transcript of that interview – enjoy.IC: During the next hour it’s a chance to hear in depth from one of

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Tom Clare - author of the excellent Forever a Babe kindly transcribes this fascinating interview with Phil Neville for Red News readersRed News contributor Tom Clare's book - Forever a Babe - order via AmazonPhil Neville Talks to Ian Cheeseman of BBC Radio ManchesterI.C. My special guest this evening is the Everton captain and former Manchester United and England fullback, Phil Neville. Good

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£8.99 gets you 10 cards (and envelopes), and covers the postage to you too. These are a unique design, available in limited quantity so we hope you appreciate you are getting something completely different than you'll see elsewhere. With a right Utd twinge to delight Reds or wind up ABUs you know.The cost for 10 cards is £8.99 inc p&p in the UKThe cost for 10 cards is £10.99 for ROWThe cost for

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(this article first appeared in the fanzine, Red News 162)Philippe Auclair is the author of the excellent new book on Eric, Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King (published by Macmillan and available for just £8.99 on the RN site Amazon links). Writing exclusively here for Red News, he talks of his relationship with George Best and being the last journalist to interview him.This was the sort of

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RN contributor Mojo writes each month for the mag and here he looks at the goalie situation, which we have reproduced here to entice you into giving the mag a go...!http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.phpAnd next……auditions now available to be United’s number one.As our goalkeeper, Massimo Taibi, knelt down to field a soft long range effort from Southampton’s Matthew le Tissier, all eyes in the

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Tim Webber is the author of the excellent and enjoyable United Nations: Around the Manchester United World in 80 Games. Travelling around the world with his girlfriend Clare, he not only follows United games from afar across 11 time-zones, but in the process creates a unique travelogue around his experiences in each country as he witnesses United's global appeal and how the people around it

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-5633121056731411922009-10-20T10:56:00.001Z2009-10-20T10:56:30.699Z

the sort of stuff you see in the RN VIP Forums - this exclusive transcript of an interview Sir Alex Ferguson did with an American radio station was in the VIP Forum last week, we show it to the free site lurkers now so they get a taste of all the delights the VIP Forums offer (you can sign up at http://www.rednews.co.uk/vip.php).Transcribed by Tom Clare of Red Newsfrom http://www.rednews.co.uk/

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Read Lou Macari every month as he joins Red News as our new mag columnist, order a sub here...In Issue 162 of Red News... Eric Cantona face mask!Out October 17th 2009. Every page in colour. Eric Cantona face mask. Michael Knighton, the 1989/90 Season, Besiktas Away, Lou Macari on Foster and Nani, Mojo, LR on wanting Leeds as opponents, Gossip, Matthew Hatton exclusive interview, Pete Shaw hits

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(this review first appeared in the summer mag, Red News 159)I'm always slightly scared when I see Eric Cantona with grey hair, looking old. It was even worse a few years back when he ballooned in weight into a Jan Molby lookalike, I suppose my fear a sign of my own unwelcome mortality, and, on a slightly more absurd level, it just not fair that King Eric was to age just like everyone else; like

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-8643350443085469682009-09-17T23:32:00.001Z2009-09-17T23:32:32.003Z

This is the sort of stuff you'll miss if you don't ever buy the fanzine.This interview first appeared in the pages of RN158, out last May.You can bag yourself every copy of the fanzine packed with interviews, news, gossip and laughs at http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.phpRN: How do you rate your form this season?PE: It was very good in the beginning and I think when I got the four match ban

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-72162376570502518062009-09-17T11:12:00.001Z2009-09-17T11:12:20.262Z

I suppose that since I first began watching the game of football, the world, and the game has moved on, time has flown by, but everything still seems to appear to me as though it was only yesterday. Has what has happened during that period always been for the better, and for the good and benefit of the fans, the local communities, the players or the Clubs? For me, be it personally,

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thanks to es for this research for Red News and its readers, you can find his stat corner in each issue of the mag at http://www.rednews.co.uk/current-issue.phpopposition - number of seasons faced and number of managers used during fergie's reign[1] Seasons faced [2] Number of ManagersArsenal [1] 24 [2] 4Everton [1] 24 [2] 11Liverpool [1] 24 [2] 5Tottenham Hotspur [1] 24 [2] 19Aston Villa [1] 23

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In the latest issue (RN160), our resident statistician (or head nerd as we call him affectionately...!) took up the challenge for some tireless research to discover how many managers Fergie has faced in the league at United. It was great stuff but he realised he missed a couple of short term caretaker managers out, so please find below the definitive list below, and thanks to es for doing this

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-14513618001444523192009-09-03T23:51:00.001Z2009-09-03T23:51:30.668Z

My Sentimental Journey.I gazed out of the train window and said to myself am I really going to Munich after all these years. Did I really want to go? What did I expect to find. Could I cope? Bobby and Matt (my dear friend) would not be there, why have I been drawn? Fifty years I have thought of a name, Munich, it was embedded on my brain and was there nearly every day at some stage. I was

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A Red Perspective on the Charity Shield 2009WE’RE THE FAMOUS MAN UNITED AND WE’RE OFF TO WEMBLEY!Seamus is nothing if not professional so when he got a call from his other editor asking him to take on a tricky assignment, deep behind enemy lines, it was without hesitation that he seized the opportunity. - “What is it Ed?”, Seamus eagerly inquired.- “I want you to cover the Charity I mean

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Summer business and new season hope As at mid-July Fergie declared ‘our business is done’ which surprised me. Maybe he was just winding us all up, perhaps not.I know we’re spoilt, seriously challenging for, or winning the title, most seasons since 1992, but that’s where we want to stay. Maybe a lean year, or two, wouldn’t be totally bad. Winning the title again in 2006/07, after a gap, improved

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Merseyside, have a look, we’re in Moscow, are you f*ck, with a nick nack paddy wack give a dog a bone, we’re bringing number three home.So heard in Hard Rock café on the day of the game. Without doubt 2007/8 will go down in the annals of history as one of United’s greatest ever and the fact that it took us one of each closer to the old enemy made it even sweeter. Every time I see a picture of

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From Aberdeen to RomeThis was not the happy ending to the season we had all envisaged and hoped for but at the end of the day we were well beaten on the night by a better team. We could discuss forever what happened on the night but simply for whatever reason we did not turn up. Hopefully next season we will come back better and wiser for the experience. Anyway enough about the game, I would

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Thanks to Red News forumite Thornton Red for this match reportBilled as The Champions v The Champions, AFC having won the Vodkat Premier Division title last season, anticipation in the area for the visit of Manchester United, whoever wore the shirts, had been high for weeks and the club even managed to arrange for a marquee to be set up outside the local pub, The Birley Arms, to provide

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-47621381229165930552009-07-19T08:48:00.001Z2009-07-19T08:48:57.736Z

United arrived in Kuala Lumpur for the first leg of their 2009 Asia Tour. This is United's 4th visit to Malaysia (that I know of). The last time was in 2001 when they beat another Malaysian select 6-0. Prior to that, a United team in 1995, sans Cantona, Kanchelskis, Hughes and Ince arrived with a group of then unknown young players such as Beckham, the Neville brothers, Butt and Scholes played

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-17566206097083052282009-07-09T23:53:00.000Z2009-07-09T23:54:08.821Z

by Bob Carter, author of the new book (details below), From Salford to Tucson and Back Again: The Globetrotting Memoirs of a Manchester United FanIt was less than a week ahead of two momentous events in the history of our beloved club. The following Wednesday the reds would be facing Barcelona, attempting to become the first club to successfully defend the Champions League. The day before, the

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-43501095075651073852009-06-17T10:38:00.000Z2009-06-17T10:39:02.269Z

VIVA RONALDO! SHOULD HE HAVE STAYED OR WAS IT RIGHT FOR HIM GO?This has been a question that has been troubling many United fans since, finally, United accepted Real’s offer to buy our talented winger.It doesn’t seem that long ago that, a thoroughly weary, Gary Neville trudged off a pitch in Lisbon during a pre-season friendly. It was back in 2003, United had just played Sporting Club de Portugal

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-22032663018015114352009-06-02T09:43:00.001Z2009-06-02T09:43:37.456Z

RN contributor Tom Clare has an excellent new book out, Forever a Babe (order below), and here he selects 5 classic Utd games...My Five Favourite Match Recollections by Tom ClareIn September 2009 it will be 55 years since I made my first trip to Old Trafford to watch United’s first team. So much has been crammed into those 55 years and the Club today is totally unrecognizable from the Club as it

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-48778045921804693272009-02-10T00:49:00.003Z2009-02-10T00:53:32.375Z

you can pay tribute to a great United supporting legend who sadly passed away recently at http://www.rednews.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=55695 Here his friend Frosty pays tributeI’ve been a regular traveller with Mike since the early 70s, initially domestic games, and gradually spreading further afield, but unlike Mike, never beyond Euro Aways. If a trip to Manchester required an overnight stay

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-82048926449573823562009-02-06T07:08:00.002Z2009-02-06T07:13:02.097Z

This article first appeared in RN144.Arguments over the AIG logo and David Gill's name on the Memorial tunnel aside, I think we can all agree that the clubs commemorations for the 50th anniversary were exemplary and hit just the right tone in tribute and education, allowing what could possibly, and sadly, be the last significant anniversary for those who survived to be shared by old and young

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-73561288205457172602009-02-05T02:36:00.001Z2009-02-05T02:36:36.514Z

Driving home last night from work, I had the "Sports Show" on the Sirius sattelite station, channel 125. It's a two hour programme hosted by a couple of guys that get right up my nose (Charlie Stillitano (Sillyarsole), and former Italian player Giorgio Chinnaglia), but I listen to it because sometimes there are some interesting interviews on the show.Last night they had Fergie on for about 25

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-82115579626406612852009-02-05T01:05:00.000Z2009-02-05T01:07:54.326Z

the sort of article you miss if you don't ever give the fanzine a go, this article appeared in an old RN...http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.phpUK 10 issue sub £30.00 inc p&pEurope 10 issue sub £35.00 inc p&pRest Of The World 10 issue sub £40.00 inc p&pThose forgetful few Reds who like to overtly criticise United these days must suffer from selected amnesia. How else could they manage to moan

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Bobby Harrop – Gone, But Not ForgottenIf you were to ask any Manchester United supporter today; “What does the name Bobby Harrop mean to you?” It’s my guess that very, very few would be able to give you an answer. It’s only old farts like me and who are in my age group who really remember this young man. Only one other player that I know of, had such a love and voracious appetite for the game of

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the sort of thing you miss if you don't ever buy the fanzine; full of interviews with the people that matter, gossip, laughs, now ALL colour and lots, lots more.http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.phpUK 10 issue sub £30.00 inc p&pEurope 10 issue sub £35.00 inc p&pRest Of The World 10 issue sub £40.00 inc p&pYou can also bag yourself an online sub for £10 which just gives you complete access for

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the sort of feature you miss if you don't ever buy the mag - with well over 70 former Utd players interviewed so far by RN too!http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.phpUK 10 issue sub £30.00 inc p&pEurope 10 issue sub £35.00 inc p&pRest Of The World 10 issue sub £40.00 inc p&pYou can also bag yourself an online sub for £10 which just gives you complete access for this site - both news on one page

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Ian Greaves, Babe, RIPSad to hear the news that former Busby Babe Ian Greaves has passed away, Tom Clare posted this tribute on the RN Forums.Ian GreavesIan Denzil Greaves, was born in Shaw, Oldham, on 26 May 1932. In the period that became famous for Sir Matt Busby’s youth policy, Ian was a late starter. He had a wonderful 21st birthday present when he joined United from Buxton United in May,

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The sort of thing you miss if you don't buy the mag, this interview first appeared exclusively in RN150http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.phphttp://www.rednews.co.uk/current-issue.phpLou Macari's autobiographyIf Roy Keane’s autobiography raised the bar in honest assessments of a footballing life affected by ups and downs off the pitch as much as on it, then Lou Macari’s ‘Football, My Life’ (

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this first appeared in RN150, you can read exclusive extracts of Red News' interview with Jack in RN151-153.The Grandfather of Manchester UnitedSince the formation of the Newton Heath football club in 1878, to the glories of the modern Manchester United, there has been a select band of men whose service to the club has been extraordinary. Perhaps the greatest of them all is Sir Matt Busby, the

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-85275021053761709752008-10-09T10:45:00.001Z2008-10-09T10:45:31.119Z

Great Players & Games of My Time Manchester United 2 Tottenham Hotspur 0 - 14th January 1961Honoured at Last – Harry Gregg – The Man of CourageOn October 1st, the recipients of the Pride of Britain awards received their awards at a glittering ceremony at a top hotel in Central London. One of the categories of award was that of Special Recognition. One of the recipients was a 76 years old

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-84334659782170797952008-10-02T10:22:00.000Z2008-10-02T10:23:05.593Z

October 1st will always mark a very special day in my calendar. In a time when lavish praise is bandied about regarding even the most ordinary of football players; I think that it is true to say that on this date in 1936, it was the day which announced the birth of a real legend.Football history is strewn with a litany of legendary players and their history. Most of those born before the war of

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-64315838295651774022008-09-29T19:49:00.001Z2008-09-29T19:49:57.573Z

“Thank you, thanks. I’ve had more than a year to think about this and it’s not getting any easier. I knew this was going to be my last game at Old Trafford and today you’ve been absolutely fantastic again. You’re the best supporters in the world. I’d like to thank Espanyol, who came over here and made a good game out of it. It was a good run-out for our boys. It’s a very important season for us

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-51459288774403241412008-09-15T21:31:00.000Z2008-09-15T21:32:36.262Z

RIP from all his friends at St Annes RC Secondary School in Heaton Chapel.If you want to thank anyone for our amazing and dramatic victory, please thank me – the guy sat/stood in Tribune B, row 53, section 6, seat 53 of the Luzhnniki Stadium, Moscow. Never let anyone disrespect or, more importantly, disbelieve in the power of prayer ever again.I’ve not turned into a religious nutter or anything

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-5731581101107039592008-08-13T10:39:00.002Z2008-08-13T10:50:51.618Z

read more in our Moscow issue, issue 147 out now! (order details below)From the FWA to the KGB! For the last several years I have been fortunate enough to attend the Football Writers Association annual awards dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel - this year it was again a privilege to attend after the members comprehensively voted our very own Cristiano Ronaldo their player of the year for the

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-335196605863041662008-06-18T17:28:00.000Z2008-06-18T17:29:11.516Z

this appeared in RN146, buy the mag and open your eyes to a whole new look at United, by Reds, for Reds...Wembley 68Greg Barnes aged 9+3/4I used to live opposite Bobby Charlton. He lived at number 3, I lived at number 8. We owned our house as my Dad was a well paid Steel worker across the water in Irlam. Bobby Charlton as probably one of the top three players in the world, rented his house off

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-79111250148279486162008-05-29T00:24:00.000Z2008-05-29T00:25:23.818Z

To put the event into proper context, you have to try and place yourself in the very emotional circumstances leading up to the final. On the last day of the league season, City had won the championship and we were runners up. On that last league day, we started with equal points, but City had the edge with goal average, so a win for them at Newcastle meant they were champions. At the same time,

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INTRODUCTION:The roots of this tournament, arguably the greatest club competition in the world, can be traced as far back to 1927 and to France. Henri Delauny, then secretary of the French Football Federation (FFF) was also a member of the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA’s) executive committee (the ruling executive for world football). It is widely believed that during a

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the sort of thing you miss if you don't buy the mag, Carrick, Christian and Gordon Hill are all interviewed in the new RN145http://www.rednews.co.uk/subscription.phpUK 10 issue sub £25.00 inc p&pEurope 10 issue sub £30.00 inc p&pRest Of The World 10 issue sub £35.00 inc p&pYou can also bag yourself an online sub for £10 which just gives you complete access for this site http://www.rednews.co.uk/

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copyright Tom Clare 2008 for Red News - read more of Tom's stuff in future or back editions of the fanzine http://www.rednews.co.ukFriday February 1st, 2008It was around 2p.m. on Friday February 1st, when my wife Cheryl slowly halted the car outside the entrance to Departures at Terminal C, in Houston’s George Bush International Airport. The afternoon was warm, around 81 degrees and it was quite

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-56104721807925742012008-03-03T11:31:00.003Z2008-12-11T22:12:10.799Z

MUNICH MEMORIAL6th February 2008Personally I wasn't even born when the tragic events of 6th February 1958 unfolded but was a few short months away of seeing the light of day. However my Salford born Dad was a United fan through and through, and it wasn't long before I was following in his footsteps to Old Trafford and being told tales of this mystical team, The Busby Babes, who, at my early age

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-82007319608436086322008-02-28T08:39:00.000Z2008-02-28T08:40:35.941Z

On February 21st 1958 Duncan Edwards lost his final battle. He survived the plane crash for 15 days but eventually his injuries were just too much for him to survive. 50 years later on, on a cold, dark and damp Black Country morning over 700 people braved the weather to attend his memorial in Dudley town centre. The service of thanksgiving was organised by Sean Coughlan, a council officer and

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-1536742376603989422008-02-27T19:40:00.000Z2008-02-27T19:41:22.355Z

Whenever a young talented forward signs for Manchester United, the obvious but perhaps unfair comparison with the late George Best arises. Willie Morgan, Norman Whiteside and Ryan Giggs to name a few are several players who were associated with the Belfast Boy.An immature Portuguese winger was the latest footballer to have had this comparison made. He was a “one trick pony” that was producing the

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-29644280269562915242008-02-06T01:38:00.001Z2008-02-06T01:38:47.750Z

50 YEARS ON – “The Smiling Executioner”His smile would have brightened even the darkest room. With his black curly hair, mischievous eyes, that smile and good looks, Tommy Taylor, standing at 6’1” tall and weighing in at 13 stones, he was the epitome of the professional athlete. Like the “Bestie” of a few years hence, it is true to say that Tommy Taylor would not have looked out of place on a

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-16505550806153335222008-02-06T01:37:00.001Z2008-02-06T01:37:33.221Z

50 YEARS ON – Roger Byrne“Captain Marvel”, “Captain Fantastic”, “Captain Reliable”. All accolades given to Captains of Manchester United during the last thirty years. United have had some great Captains at the Club down through the years and they have all left their own legacy on the Club’s history. Roger Byrne is certainly up there with the best of them, and he led by example on the field,

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-19865129016666814422008-02-06T01:36:00.001Z2008-02-06T01:36:15.725Z

50 Years On – Mark JonesThat the “Busby Babes” were the glamour team of their era is beyond doubt. Sir Matt had quietly introduced his youngsters into First Division football between the 1952 – 53, 1953-54, and 1954-55 seasons. It had taken three years to assemble this array of mercurial young talent, and there had been some setbacks along the way as his young apprentices came to terms with

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-62609971229452972792008-02-06T01:34:00.000Z2008-02-06T01:35:04.862Z

50 Years On – “The Wizard of the Wing”He was the smallest, the oldest, and the vice - captain of that great “Busby Babes” team of the 1950’s. Born on June 1st 1926, in the Hampshire town of Aldershot, he was considered as being “too small” to make a career in football with the “Shots.” How wrong could people have been! So when he left school, he took a job as a trainee cinema projectionist.

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-78377270611506377252008-02-06T01:32:00.001Z2008-02-06T01:32:09.732Z

“Snake Hips”Cheeky, precocious, exuberant, effervescent, bubbly, exciting; all those words could be used to describe Eddie Colman. But as far as football is concerned, you could only ever describe him as supremely gifted and talented. He was certainly one of those players that left an indelible imprint on your memory with his own style of playing the game. He was definitely different from his

RNnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-91328750445726481862008-02-06T01:29:00.000Z2008-02-06T01:30:05.690Z

50 Years On – David PeggBy John WhiteDoncaster born in September 1935, David was a talented left wing prodigy who was hunted by all the big clubs of the day. He was eventually enticed to United to join all those other talented lads from both locally and up and down the land by that wily old genius, Matt Busby and David made his United debut as a 17 year old against Middlesbrough in a 3-2 home win

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-43578973591460444312008-02-06T01:28:00.001Z2008-02-06T01:28:36.122Z

50 Years On – Geoff BentBy John WhiteOf all of our Red heroes lost in the snow and ice of Munich that grey Thursday in Feb 1958, the case of Geoff Bent, Salford born in 1932, is probably the most poignant and difficult to write about. In many respects, Geoff was probably like any number of understudies anywhere - good enough in his own right to get a place at almost any football club in the land.

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50 Years On - Liam WhelanBy John WhiteMy most favourite of the Babes who was lost at Munich almost 50 years ago was Liam “Billy” Whelan, a gentle Irish lad aged 22 and three-quarters. He joined us as an 18 year old from United’s nursery club in Dublin Home Farm and for all of his tragically short life, I don’t believe he knew how good a player he was. United's coaching staff, however, were under

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-76266144541858719372008-02-06T01:24:00.000Z2008-02-06T01:25:10.755Z

BY THE time I was 15, it looked like I was going to be a good footballer. I was a big lad for my age, and the newspapers were calling me the new Duncan Edwards, the young hero at Manchester United. I was so flattered that I have kept those cuttings to this day. In the restaurant at my club, Scribes West, there is an oil painting of Edwards. He was my hero and an inspiration. When I was growing

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-41503013299882558352008-02-06T01:19:00.001Z2008-02-06T01:19:52.401Z

by Louise GavinIt was freezing cold in Dublin on Saturday when the day’s events started on the Liam Whelan Bridge at 12pm. But that didn’t prevent people turning up to see the first part of the events to commemorate Munich and The Busby Babes. 3 wreaths were laid beside Liam Whelan’s plaque - 1 by a member of his family, another by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and the last by 2 representatives from

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-44380106863013345762008-02-06T01:12:00.001Z2008-02-06T01:12:36.907Z

Everyone knows where they were, what they were doing when they heard the news of certain world-shaping events. Kennedy’s assassination, John Lennon, Martin Luther King. It always seems to involve violent and untimely death. For Mancunians / Reds of a certain age the defining event, burned indelibly into memory, is where they were, what they were doing when they heard about the Munich air crash.I

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-8100683060886757312008-02-06T01:09:00.000Z2008-02-06T01:10:46.083Z

They Were My Heroes by Tom Clare1958 – 2008; a period of some 50 years. To some, it may seem like an eternity in time. However, for myself, and for thousands of Mancunians just like me who emanate from my era; on Wednesday, 6th February 2008, when we close our eyes in the silent minutes of quiet recollection and remembrance; that period of time will be crossed in just a fraction of a second.

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-38304462975621339972008-02-06T01:07:00.001Z2008-02-06T01:07:40.089Z

by PeteI was nine years old when the plane crashed. In the fifty years since I have endured most of the horrors that life can throw up. Nothing has ever come remotely close to the devastating effect that that event had upon me.I had finished my paper round and gone with my best mate, Paul, to his house where his mum had some toast waiting for us. It was just before five o'clock. They had a

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RN: Fergie has called this end of season, challenging on all fronts period ‘squeaky-bum time’, is that how you see it?GN: I think that is something that has just stuck down the years. I think it has been at times but I don’t think it is yet. It will do when it gets to four or five games to go. I know what he means, he means basically it’s the business end where trophies are won. You have

RNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293323.post-63703569164179378472007-05-16T23:09:00.000Z2007-05-16T23:11:16.425Z

No doubt this summer will be like all the others. The predictable merry-go-round of transfer speculation and headlines will be upon us again. United will be linked with £20 million bids for strikers from all over Europe. The names will be exotic; Berbatov, Torres, Villa. All will be the answer to Alex Ferguson’s ‘striking problems’. We know how it works. We see it every year. The stories are the

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