Under Alex Ferguson, Manchester United always spent big in the transfer market, breaking records and making statements from the bucolic days of Mark Hughes and Roy Keane. Their relentless quest for success saw them snatch up and inevitably wear down Andy Cole, Jaap Stam, Dwight Yorke, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Juan Sebastian Veron, Rio Ferdinand, and Dimitar Berbatov. And they even…
Best known as the serial adulterer who obtained a super-injunction over one of his affairs, then tried to sue Twitter users for inevitably breaking it, and as the footballer who refereed Manchester United matches for more than two decades, Ryan Giggs continues to believe that the world – and especially the media – bends to his every whim. An unscrupulous cheat…
Are you of ruddy complexion, barely nourished on a diet of chips, cheese, and gravy and spag bol, and genetically determined to bald prematurely, your body ageing at a rate that skips stops? Is your favourite pastime boxing with friends in the kitchen? Do you sometimes feel unduly amorous towards the old? None of that matters, it’s all distractions merely, but…
For the best part of twenty years Manchester United enjoyed an effective hegemony over the Premier League, as between 1993 and 2013 a glorified group of British youngsters, led by Alex Ferguson the red-nosed Scot, helped the side to a remarkable thirteen league titles. For much of the past decade Manchester United’s main rivals at the top of the Premier…
Call them what you will, the Class of ’92 or Fergie’s Fledglings, the group of players who emerged from the Manchester United youth academy in the early-to-mid 1990s achieved the rarest of feats. Winning Premier League after Premier League alongside an assortment of European, FA, and League cups, the group – which included Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Nicky…
