Even though the next game is near our way, the news is still slim but if related to the England team defeat last Thursday, the world wide web still has something to say:
1. Is Manchester United your passion? Reckon you know more about the Reds than your friends and family? Now you can test your knowledge with the ultimate interactive football quiz: Manchester United – The Big Game.
2. It’s not the same, though. The country doesn’t unite behind Manchester United or Arsenal, even if the quality of club football is better. Manchester United would probably beat England, but that’s not the point. When it’s England, nobody minds about the quality. It’s about unity. It’s great precisely because it is a shared experience.
3. Roy Keane surveyed the English landscape post-Croatia yesterday and saw rampant egomania as the key character fault among Steve McClaren’s beaten squad.
4. The 109th league meeting of these two Greater Manchester rivals could see United at the top of the table and Bolton still below the safety line at the final whistle.
5. United fans up and down the country, regardless of their feelings towards the England National Team, should be feeling the same way after watching that shambolic performance against Croatia. Thank God we have Manchester United to support.
6. Vietnamese football fans will have the chance to watch Manchester United play at Old Trafford simply by flying with AirAsia on its Hanoi-Bangkok or Hanoi-Kuala Lumpur route and joining the airline’s lucky draw.
7. Are the big three – Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal – finally plotting a breakaway to join a new European elite league? It is an old fear but it is the big question on the lips of rival chairmen when they gather for a Premier League ’shareholders’ meeting today in London. More here.
