Manchester United

Yes, my favorite team is Manchester United. I wish I could play at this club, playing alongside the world-famous soccer players like Rooney, Robin Van Persie, Vidic, Giggs and many more. Persie is a famous footballer who plays a ball with great technique and skills, and he's also handsome like me. Hahaaha

This time I will discuss about my favorite club team.

Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.

The Greatest Football story ever told

The story of Manchester United is unlike any other club in the world. Beginning more than a century ago, it combines eras of total English and European domination with some of the greatest adversity faced by any football club.

Only at the Old Trafford Museum & Tour Centre can you see the stadium through the eyes of Manchester United greats themselves. Or get even closer to the world of Manchester United and share 130 years of football in the award-winning Museum. Whether you’re a Manchester United fan or not, a visit to the Museum & Tour Centre is a day to remember! The Museum also offers a range of education programmes for students of all ages, click here for further information.

Why not make your trip extra special by booking one of our Unique Tours? Cruise down to Old Trafford from Manchester city centre on a canal barge before embarking on a tour of the Theatre of Dreams, or take a tour with a Legend from the club such as Andrew Cole.

Behind the Scenes

Now that the football season is now over our attention has turned to ensuring we have the best facilities for our players ready for next season.

As part of our ongoing development of Old Trafford, for the first time in nearly ten years, the pitch is being replaced. This means that anyone going on the Stadium Tour will have a very rare opportunity to witness the behind the scenes work that is involved in ensuring Old Trafford has the very best pitch for the 2013/14 season onwards.

The pitch will be 97% natural and 3% artificial with the natural grass roots intertwined with the synthetic fibres. This allows the natural grass to grow deeper creating a level, firm and stable playing surface. There will be 1 artificial fibre every 2cm by 2cm square with a maximum fibre height above the ground of 2cm. The experts installing the pitch already installed 450 reinforced natural grass pitches around the world – including Wembley, Arsenal, Liverpool,  Feyenoord, Manchester City, the San Siro and Tottenham amongst others.

During the month of June there will be no access to the Players Tunnel. Regrettably there will be no wheelchair access to the Stadium Tour until the middle of July, due to essential maintenance work being carried out.

Sir Alex Ferguson is the most successful manager in British football history, winning almost 40 trophies – including 13 Premier League titles – during his time in charge of Manchester United.

He arrived at Old Trafford on 6 November 1986 and retired at the end of the 2012/13 season. Ferguson enjoyed a playing career in Scotland that saw him take in spells with Queen's Park, St Johnstone, Dunfermline, Glasgow Rangers, Falkirk and Ayr United. But it is not for his playing of the game that Sir Alex was to become a success.

Following a spell out of the game he moved into coaching, taking up the role of manager of East Stirlingshire, St Mirren then Aberdeen. It was his time at Pittodrie where he earned his reputation as a top coach. He broke the Glasgow dominance of Scottish football to lead Aberdeen to three Scottish titles, four Scottish cups, one League Cup and one European Cup Winners’ Cup. Following the sacking of Ron Atkinson as manager of Manchester United in 1986, the Old Trafford hierarchy moved quickly for his services.

Ferguson inherited a dispirited team of underachievers who had consistently, to their supporters’ discontent, failed to break Liverpool’s domination. Stuck in the bottom four of the Division One table, Ferguson immediately set about attempting to stave off the very real threat of relegation. Without resorting to the transfer market, he guided United up the table to an 11th place finish.

By now it was clear to Ferguson that he faced a major job in turning the club around. United were an entertaining side but one that seemed unable to cope with the more physical aspects of League football. In his second season the Reds fared better finishing second behind Liverpool, but the position painted a false picture. The turning point came in the 1989/90 season.

Following a run of games in which the Reds were drawn away in every round, United picked up their first silverware of the Ferguson era. Lee Martin scoring the only goal in a final replay against Crystal Palace to win the FA Cup.

This first trophy opened the floodgates. The European Cup Winners’ Cup was won the following season in Rotterdam, Barcelona defeated 2-1 thanks to a brace from Mark Hughes. Then, in 1991/92, the League Cup was added to United’s list of honours. Sadly the title remained elusive. It was the Holy Grail to United fans, the 26 championships-free years being exacerbated by Liverpool’s dominance of the domestic and European game.

In 1992/93 the long wait for the League Championship came to an end with the Reds, inspired by £1m signing Eric Cantona, pipping Aston Villa in the final weeks of the season. The shackles were broken: the Double followed in 1993/94, the double-Double (with ‘kids’) in 1995/96, and another title in 1997. Finally United were matching off-field might with on-field success. Liverpool’s dominance was well and truly over.

Sir Alex’s greatest achievement came in 1998/99. No side before or since has achieved a Treble haul of Premiership title, FA Cup and European Cup. On an unforgettable night in Barcelona his decision to throw on substitutes Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer assured history was made. The pair scored injury-time goals to win the Champions League and complete the Treble.

Ferguson was knighted following that success and some suggested he should retire, believing his desire would wane following the realisation of a dream. Not a bit of it. Another title followed in 1999/2000 and he made it three-in-row in 2000/01. His eighth Premiership duly arrived in 2002/03; his fifth FA Cup came a year later, against Millwall in Cardiff.

The Reds had by now entered a period of rebuilding. The side of homegrown players he’d first put together in 1995/96 was now breaking up and he’d recruited new stars like Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo to spark a new era of success.

The rebuilding paid off with victory in the Carling Cup in 2005/06 and a ninth Premier League trophy in 2006/07. In May 2007, Sir Alex swooped for three players - Anderson, Nani and Owen Hargreaves - to bolster an already strong squad. This evolving team claimed more glory in 2007/08, defending the Premier League title and securing Sir Alex's second Champions League triumph with all three of those signings scoring in the penalty shoot-out against Chelsea.

United followed European success by winning the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan in December 2008. The Reds then claimed the Carling Cup in March 2009 by beating Tottenham on penalties in the final. On 16 May 2009, United achieved what had seemed an impossible mission when Sir Alex arrived in 1986, equalling Liverpool's long-standing record of 18 league championships. Beating Liverpool to the 2008/09 crown – Sir Alex's 11th title in 17 seasons – made the feat even sweeter.

Even better was to follow two years later. After being pipped to the championship by a point by Double winners Chelsea, United had to settle for the Carling Cup as the only trophy of 2010. But the Reds wrestled the Premier League title back with typical determination as Wayne Rooney's penalty at Blackburn ensured United surpassed Liverpool as the most successful club in the domestic game.

There was final-day heartbreak in 2011/12 as Manchester City pipped the Reds to the league title with just seconds of the season remaining. That disappointment made the manager doubly determined to reclaim the trophy in 2012/13 – his final season in charge – and his side delivered a fitting send-off to by clinching the club's 20th league title with four games to spare. Sir Alex will continue to be involved at United following his retirement, taking up a position on the club's board and acting as an ambassador.

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GGMU!!!!