AP: MU to refinance debt with bond sale

United said Monday it hoped to raise 500 million pounds ($808 million) from the issue of the seven-year bonds, which could pay off a majority of the debt burden incurred by Malcolm Glazer’s 2005 takeover of English football’s most famous team.

Saw it Coming

This is a joke. A soap opera that is rapidly turning us into the Newcastle of the south. Analysis not required. My indignation should be enough.

Football Finance Focus: Manchester United

Periodically, GET STUCK IN draws back the curtain on the world of football and investigates the business side of the game. When pressing issues arise, or it’s near transfer window time, we look at the money different clubs can spend. Let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way first: Manchester United are not even [...]

Absolutely Crushed

Absolutely crushed by the defeat. Match isn’t even over and we’re down 4-1. United are beating Wigan 5-0, making it 10-0 for the season. These matches don’t even need analysis. I don’t need to know how each team played. These were predictable results. Two poor teams going against two of the best. Fine, great, forget [...]

Sofa Punditry: Liverpool Get Lucky

And so it goes. In recent years, just when it seems that a challenger to a top-4 place has arisen, they are cruelly knocked back on their bum. Such was the case yet again last night at Villa Park. To be fair, it was a game that neither team really deserved to win. Each squad [...]

Team News

Before the matches today kick-off, I thought it would be best to provide some quick team news ahead of the matches. From the Premier League website, the squads are as follows: Aston Villa: Friedel, Guzan, Luke Young, Beye, Dunne, Collins, Cuellar, Clark, Warnock, Milner, Petrov, Downing, Sidwell, Reo-Coker, Delph, Gardner, Agbonlahor, Carew, Heskey, Delfouneso, Albrighton. [...]

Dec 29, 2009: Festive Fixtures

Aston Villa v. Liverpool Preview

Welcome

Hello, In order to distract myself from mindless surfing on the web, I decided to create a site dedicated to analyzing the greatest sport in the world: football. I figured that I spend so much time in the pub discussing it and on the internet reading about it, I might as well write about it. [...]