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  • Robin van Persie With the Perfect Free Kick Winner (Manchester City vs Manchester United)

    Robin van Persie With the Perfect Free Kick Winner (Manchester City vs Manchester United)

    Joe Hart took one step too many to his left; Samir Nasri sent his leg forward just a tad too much. Robin van Persie was brought in the beginning of the season to put Manchester United back on top of the Premier League and over Manchester City. In the 90th minute, with a free kick goal against the flow of the final moments he did just that.

  • Premier League – Manchester City vs Manchester United Predictions

    Premier League – Manchester City vs Manchester United Predictions

    In the past few years, for probably the first time ever, the Manchester derby has turned into the best rivalry in the Premier League. Manchester United have always been involved in that sort of thing, but this is relativity new territory for City, who are looking to put their Champions League woes with some more Premier League glory.

  • Carlos Tevez With the Classless ‘R.I.P Fergie’ Sign

    Carlos Tevez might have meant it as a joke, but it’s pretty obvious that holding a sign saying ‘R.I.P Fergie’ isn’t going to be taken lightly by, well, most of the media, social media, fans and Alex Feguson himself.

  • Wayne Rooney’s Goal Voted Best in Premier League’s 20 Years

    Wayne Rooney’s brilliant goal again Manchester City might have been the ‘last goal in’ to the voting process of the greatest goal in the 20 years of the Premier League, but it won anyway, recieving 26% of the votes, beating Dennis Bergkamp (19) and Thierry Henry (15).

  • Aftermath of the City – United Manchester Derby

    Roberto Mancini did an excellent job of picking up his players from their horrendous late March – early April collapse. Having Wolves on the schedule is always nice, but instead of folding the title race, City just turned up the pressure on Manchester United, culminating in their 1-0 derby win that puts them back at the top of the table.

  • Vincent Kompany Decides Manchester Derby and Perhaps Title Race (City vs United)

    Manchester City haven’t beaten their city rivals twice in the same season since 1970. No team has ever turned an 8 point deficit this late in the season. Vincent Kompany scored the only goal at the Etihad stadium, giving City the edge over Manchester United in the Premiership title race thanks to goal difference.

  • Bad Refereeing Can’t Ruin Fantastic Manchester Derby

    One year ago, when Kenny Dalglish made his return at the manager position with Liverpool, he saw Steven Gerrard sent off because of a dive which got Howard Webb to use his highly unstable sense of judgement and send Gerrard off. Manchester United enjoyed Chris Foy’s terrible decision making to help them beat Manchester City 3-2 in the FA Cup.

  • Alex Ferguson’s Worst Defeat (Manchester City vs Manchester United)

    Manchester City tied their biggest ever win over Manchester United, a humiliating 6-1 drubbing at Old Trafford with a sublime David Silva performance, getting Alex Ferguson to call this his worst defeat ever.

  • New Season, Old Habits (Manchester United vs Manchester City)

    Nani. It all came down to Nani stealing the ball from Kompany, and giving United their usual Community Shield win (their fourth in five years). Manchester United were the better side, but found themselves behind 2-0, mostly due to David de Gea lack of concentration. It didn’t matter. Alex Ferguson has the better team, the better players. But a team, first of all. Something City still can’t claim they are. And United proved in a wonderful second half, with Nani scoring twice, that they are still the best in Manchester, and England.

  • Goal of Year in the English Premiership – Wayne Rooney

    Wayne Rooney scores an amazing winner for Manchester United against their city rivals in the Manchester derby, maybe putting his season back on track and keeping United on theirs for a 19th league title.