New Kit For Manchester United 'v' Inter Milan

Manchester United today get to wear the new kit that has been designed with the Club World Cup Winners badge on it. The badge sits in the middle of the shirt to recognise United's success in the tournament held earlier in the season.

Good old Sepp Blatter, Manchester United's best friend in the whole world will present United with the special 'Champions' badge at Old Trafford this evening. The white emblem features an image of the Club World Cup trophy and is inscribed with the words 'Manchester United Champions 2008.'

The new shirt will be worn during Champions League, FA Cup and Carling Cup games until there is a new holder of the Club World Cup. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said: "It was an enormous honour to become the first British club to win the Fifa Club World Cup and this is a badge we will wear with great pride.".....Back To Home Page...

Manchester United Draw A Blank And Now It's Off To Japan

FOR once Heurelho Gomes left White Hart Lane a hero as his last-minute save denied Manchester United a vital win at Tottenham. So often he is the clown prince of goalkeepers and for once he actually managed to string together some very good saves without matching them with some gormless errors as is his wont.

As United desperately searched for a winner to ensure they left for Club World Cup duty in happy mood, the Brazilian produced a fingertip save to turn away a Ryan Giggs free-kick that was going to creep in. Man of the match was probably Gomes.

This game has probably left United rueing their failure to take advantage of second-half superiority and opened the door for Chelsea to surge clear in the Barclays Premier League title race by beating West Ham this afternoon.

Dimitar Berbatov had a frustrating time on his return to White Hart Lane and Cristiano Ronaldo had the ball in the net but saw his effort ruled out for handball.....Back To Home Page...

Sir Alex Keen To Become 'World Champions'

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has stated quite clearly he is keen for them to win the Club World Championship.

In a recent news conference he said: "We are delighted to be playing catch-up because it means we did things right during the previous season, to win the event in Tokyo would be great. We won it when it was a one-off game and now we have the opportunity to become the first British team to win it in its new tournament format. We will have to manage the second half of this season as best we can. We don't want to get to April and May and have to play rearranged games. Fulham and Wigan are our outstanding games and we will try to arrange them for January."

The FIFA Club World Cup, formerly known as the FIFA Club World Championship, is a competition contested between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations, although, since 2007, the champions of Oceania must play a qualifying play-off against the champion club of the host country.

The first competition took place in Brazil in January 2000. It was intended by FIFA to be a replacement for the Intercontinental Cup (also known as the Toyota Cup), which was contested annually in Tokyo, Japan by the champions of Europe via the Champions League and South America via theCopa Libertadores.

I guess it is a major trophy and it is worth winning but the timing of theis match and the journey involved to go and take part is not the best for United. Still, it is a piece of silverware so let's go and win it! .....Back To Home Page...