The Pundits: Brian Woolnough on the Glazers
Star: When Keith Harris talks, he’s worth listening to. Here is a man right inside the game.
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Pundits: Kevin McCarra On United’s Best Ever Team
Guardian: There is not so much as a Carling Cup final in sight but already prizes are being foisted on managers.
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Pundits: The Guardian On Anderson
You can’t kick Arsenal out of a game any more. That was last year.
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Pundits: Kevin McCarra On Rooney
Wayne Rooney turns 22 tomorrow. It is hardly a landmark birthday and there is no call for the sort of outing to Aintree that marked his 18th. In any case, the player seems to lead a determinedly dull private life nowadays. Maybe he is getting a taste for the peaceful existence enjoyed by those who are taken for granted.
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Pundits: David Pleat On Rooney & Tevez
Guardian: Manchester United gave a massive statement of intent in this tricky away fixture. With a positive attacking philosophy and shorn of a defensive midfielder - John O’Shea, Michael Carrick and Owen Hargreaves were all absent - they pressed forward with an incisiveness that punctured Aston Villa’s half and hearts.
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Pundits: Kevin McCarra - Risk Taking Months
Guardian: Not so long ago Manchester United were the spendthrift scorers of English football, so flush with menace that they could run up that beautiful 7-1 win over Roma in April. The Serie A club come back to Old Trafford in the Champions League this evening and it is virtually certain that they cannot be trounced to that extent again, even if they did lose 4-1 to Internazionale at the weekend.
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Pundits: Steven Howard - Fans ‘Sold Down The River’
Sun: MANCHESTER UNITED fans have been sold down the river.
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Pundits: James Lawton on Sir Bobby Charlton
Independent: We were somewhere over the mid-Atlantic when Sir Bobby Charlton, who was quite by chance in the next seat on the flight from Chicago, turned to me and said, “Oh, by the way, I’ve been making some notes for the book.”
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Pundits: Oliver Holt on Rio
Whatever happened to Rio Ferdinand? Whatever happened to the stylish young defender who was going to break the mould?
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Pundits: Jim White
Telegraph: This afternoon at Old Trafford we are to witness the first of the annual auditions for succession of the dug-out. It used to happen every time Bryan Robson or Steve Bruce came to town: the young protege head to head with the old master, a 90-minute interview for the post of the next boss of Manchester United.
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Pundits: Kevin McCarra
Guardian: Sunshine is an invitation to daydream and the Old Trafford support gladly took the weather up on that offer at the weekend.
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Pundits: Jeff Powell
Mail: With Manchester United making a guest appearance in the relegation zone this weekend, and both Chelsea and Arsenal fortunate to edge wins which they took as routine in the past few seasons, you would think we might be heading back to the good old days of a wide-open English championship.
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Pundits: Alan Hansen
Telegraph: For Manchester United, yesterday’s defeat was more than a setback. There is no doubt that you cannot win a championship in the first five or six games, but you can certainly lose it, and a blind man could tell you that United are struggling for a centre-forward.
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RK Watch: Paul Hayward…
Mail: Life was a whole lot simpler when Roy Keane was the smouldering anti-hero who engaged his enemies only around the knees or by the throat.
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Telegraph: Jim White On The Glazers …
Telegraph: Over the last couple of weeks there has been a growing feeling abroad, as demonstrated in newspaper columns and on various radio phone-ins, that the Glazer administration is proving to be nothing like as bad for Manchester United as the naysayers and doom mongers insisted it would when the first family of Florida took over at Old Trafford three years ago.
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Independent: James Lawton on Ronaldo …
It was billed as a coronation for Manchester United and the most celebrated of their stars in the new Wembley fantasy park (sorry, that should be football stadium despite the dismaying quality of the pitch and most of the Cup final). Instead it was the big reality check for all those who forget some of the basic rules of measuring greatness.
