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17/06/2024 12:29
Crerand in Midfield
Scot, Patrick ‘Paddy' Crerand, was the central midfield general that broke the half back line at Manchester United, but who played alongside him in midfield often defies analysis. A center half, flanked by a right half, and a left half, was how teams shaped up until the...
28/05/2024 09:29
The Spear With No Point
Manchester United's Dutch manager, Erik ten Hag, was believed to be in danger of dismissal towards the end of the 2023-24 season's campaigning. but the team managed to get through to the F.A. Cup Final at London's Wembley stadium, where they defeated city...
08/04/2024 10:04
Manchester United’s faith in utility players is demonstrably embodied in the rather slight and diminutive figure of Northern Irish central defensive midfielder, David McCreery, who was what was euphemistically called ‘the twelfth man’, before more than one substitute was permitted...
10/03/2024 04:56
Shaw Got Ten Years
A product of Southampton's youth policy, age 16, left back Luke Shaw made his first team debut on January 28th, 2012, against Millwall, 1-1, in the F.A. Cup 3rd Round, substituting for left winger, Jason Puncheon, in the 77th minute, before signing as a professional, after...
04/03/2024 05:39
The Rise and Pause of Scott McTominay
Scots' midfielder, Scott McTominay, increased his stature during Louis van Gaal's tenure; Dutch manager of Manchester United appointed for the 2014-15 season's campaigning after the qualified success of his stewardship of the Netherlands' national side at...
01/03/2024 05:06
Telles about ten Hag
Alex Telles, a left full back with Brazil's national team, was deemed surplus to requirements by Erik ten Hag, Dutch manager of Eredevisie Ajax Amsterdam, subsequent to his succeeding, for the 2022-23 season, German Ralf Rangnick, who from December 2022 had...
18/01/2024 06:13
Franz
A classic World Cup encounter was that of Manchester United’s deep lying England center forward, Bobby Charlton, and sweeper in defense, Franz Beckenbauer, who though he’d often reprise his earlier role as a central midfielder, found his niche in soccer history in the role of libero,...
14/01/2024 14:27
QB Fernandes
That the Glazer family, who took over Manchester United football club, centered at their Old Trafford stadium, built 1910, adjacent to the Bridgewater Canal, off Warwick Road, north, Greater Manchester, county of Lancashire, bordering the city of Salford, and roughly delineated...
10/01/2024 15:16
The Inverted Winger at Manchester United
The labeling of forwards as inverts began at Manchester United with the arrival of Memphis Depay, a right footed left winger, who technical writers, associated with the coaching side of soccer, defined as an inverted left winger. The...
03/01/2024 15:07
The Diamond
The fallacy surrounding Manchester United in recent seasons has been that of the diamond, which is a tactical concept, and a strategical structure, deriving at Manchester United from the way in which Bobby Charlton was deployed in the 1960s, as a deep lying center forward, alongside...
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