Monday, November 23

Get your place on the coach to Fulham


United are running coaches to the Fulham game on Saturday December 19, kick off 15:00.

Places cost £35 per person and the coach departs from the Old Trafford N2 car park at 08:30.

To reserve your place, call the ticket office on 0161 868 8000.

Birmingham home-end tickets on sale now


Home-end tickets for United's January 9 trip to Birmingham are now on sale.

Adult prices range from £23 in the Family Stand to £45 in the upmarket Club Class area.

United fans will share the Gill Merrick Stand with home fans.

In the lower tier of that stand, home end tickets will cost £33 for adults, £16.50 for over 65s, under 16s and students aged under 22 with an NUS card, and £9 for under 12s.

You can book online
here, but you have to register first. Or you can call 08 44 55 71 875 and choosing option 2.

A full travel and pub guide will be published here in the next few weeks.

Apply for Fulham tickets now


Executive members and season tickets can now apply for tickets to see United take on Fulham on December 18.

The application deadline is 08:00 on Friday.

United have got 2,845 tickets priced at £49 for adults, £38 for over 65s and £22 for under 16s.

Apply online or by calling 0161 868 8000.

The ticket office will publish ballot results on December 4.

Both the home and neutral ends are sold out but it's worth keeping an eye on Seatwave, as it has been selling neutral end tickets for just above face value in the last few days.

If you're planning on going to the game, you can buy your train tickets now and save £10.40 on the buy-on-the-day price. Details here.

A full travel and pub guide will appear here in the next few days.

United in the news


Manchester United facing fight to keep hold of first team coach (Alan Nixon, Daily Mirror)

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is facing a fight to keep his Dutch coach Rene Meulensteen - with wealthy Qatar desperate to whisk him away.
More.

Fletcher's moment of magic inspires United (Ian Winrow, The Independent)

Ferguson's side are working to more pragmatic targets and the manager viewed this workmanlike victory over Everton with relief.
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Chelsea bid '€65m plus José Bosingwa' for Franck Ribéry (The Guardian)

Hoeness told Bild newspaper that it was the "best bid". However, it still fell short of the Bavarian club's €100m (£90m) valuation of the 26-year-old, which is why they turned the Stamford Bridge club down.
More.

Fergie: Now we mean business (The Sun)

"We need to get on a run and be somewhere near the top of the league by New Year's Day."
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Michael Owen must take chances or miss World Cup bus (Chris Wheeler, Daily Mail)

Just how many chances can pass him by, how many of those buses can come and go, before Fabio Capello decides once and for all not to invite Owen aboard for England’s World Cup journey to South Africa next summer?
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England won't win the World Cup, claims Alex Ferguson (The Guardian)

The Scot is instead tipping Brazil to win the trophy for the sixth time. "I can't see past Brazil, actually," They are going to be the ones in South Africa. They are going to be hard to beat."
More.

Sunday, November 22

Tickets go on sale to Birmingham fans


Home-end tickets for United's January 9 trip to Birmingham will go on sale at 09:00 tomorrow.
Birmingham have classed it as a category B game.


Adult prices range from £23 in the Family Stand to £45 in the upmarket Club Class area.

United fans will share the Gill Merrick Stand with home fans.

In the lower tier of that stand, home end tickets will cost £33 for adults, £16.50 for over 65s, under 16s and students aged under 22 with an NUS card, and £9 for under 12s.

You can book online
here, but you have to register first. Or you can call 08 44 55 71 875 and choosing option 2.

Away-end tickets will go on sale to executive members and season ticket holders in mid-December.

It is unclear what price they will pay or what allocation they will get, but it looks like it will be about 3,000.

When Manchester City played there on November 1, it was also a category B game and their fans paid £32 for adults, £12 for over 65s, under 16s and students aged under 22 and £7 for under 12s. Details
here.

But, although this match is in the same category, it would be hard to see Birmingham selling tickets to away fans for cheaper than home fans in the same stand.

When the new Birmingham owners took control of the club in October, they promised to address supporters' concerns that tickets were too expensive. Details here.

A full travel and pub guide will be published here in the next few weeks.

Saturday, November 21

Fulham ticket information released


The ticket office has released details of how fans can apply for tickets to see United take on Fulham on December 18.

United have got 2,845 tickets for this game - 86 fewer than last season and 66 fewer than Liverpool got when they visited Craven Cottage earlier this season.

As we predicted earlier this week, the tickets will cost £49 for adults, £38 for over 65s and £22 for under 16s.

It means Fulham are the only Premier League team remaining from last season's Premier League to raise their prices from 2008/09, when reds paid £2 less for adult and under 16s tickets and £4 less for over 65s tickets.

Executive members and season ticket holders can apply online or by calling 0161 868 8000 from 08:00 on Monday to 08:00 on Friday.

The ticket office will publish ballot results on December 4.

Both the home and neutral ends are sold out but it's worth keeping an eye on Seatwave, as it has been selling neutral end tickets for just above face value in the last few days.

If you're planning on going to the game, you can buy your train tickets now and save £10.40 on the buy-on-the-day price. Details here.

A full travel and pub guide will appear here in the next few days.

Friday, November 20

United in news


Andy Cole blasts Manchester United for failing to sign Fernando Torres (David McDonnell, The Sun)

"We all make mistakes and not signing Torres was one, because I've spoke to several of the current United players about him and they all say the same thing: 'Top, top player'.
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Manchester United v Everton classics: Sportsmail remembers four famous matches from the past between the English giants (Nick Metcalfe, Daily Mail)

Manchester United play Everton on Saturday evening at Old Trafford, in a match between two of the 'Big Five' as some of us still refer to mentally at times. (Apologies folks, but I still struggle to think of Chelsea as a bigger club than Everton or Tottenham Hotspur). More.


Banned - but Sir Alex Ferguson will still be in the dugout when Manchester United tackle Everton (Daily Mail)

The Football Association have confirmed Ferguson's two-match touchline ban does not start until 14 days after the disciplinary panel hearing, which was held last week.
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Phil Neville will never go blue (Sky Sports)

He said: "Joining City is not something that will ever happen. When you have got red blood you cannot see yourself with blue blood. You go there and they have blue ketchup... it's just like 'What are they doing?'.
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