Manchester United

Patience, and Faith in Youth Can Deliver a Dream

Patience is a real virtue in modern-day sport, but sadly very few club owners, administrators or even national associations seem to possess this virtue. In 2005 the Junior Hockey World Cup was played in Rotterdam. In the final Argentina defeated

Who Removed the Plaque?

Football fans know that constantly decisions are made that are baffling on and off the pitch. Some are simply infuriating. The news coming out of Old Trafford this month that the brass plaque that had for many years marked the

Something’s Missing

It was Manchester United’s controversial Irishman Roy Keane who once said “Away from home our fans are fantastic, I’d call them the hardcore fans. But at home they have a few drinks and probably the prawn sandwiches, and they don’t

Women’s Sport Coming to the Fore

There is a saying behind every successful man there is a woman pushing hard. This may soon be changed to behind every successful sport there are women pushing hard. As in Australia it would appear that women are very much

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Breaking up with a partner is never easy. How often has the line ‘its not you its me’ been used by both men and women? Frequently it is used when the one doing the splitting up cannot really explain why