There's this myth about that we're all eating baked beans because that's all we can afford in a recession. From credit crunch to credit munch, as it were. I'm not convinced. I think we eat beans, not because they're cheap, but because they cheer us...
The Eastlands outfit were taken over by Dr Sulaiman al-Fahim and his Abu Dhabi United company this week and raised eyebrows with a shock late swoop for Robinho from Real Madrid for a British record ÂŁ34.2million.
The new owners have also expressed...
David Ottewell
3/ 9/2008
SIR Bobby Charlton and Britain's Olympic cycling heroes are to be given the freedom of Manchester.
The move was agreed at a meeting of the city council's ruling Labour group last night, manchestereveningnews.co.uk can...
Mike Whalley and Trevor Baxter
5/ 9/2008
RYAN Giggs has rejected money-bags City's bid to take the place of United as the world's No 1 soccer club.
The Blues, who stunned the game with mind-boggling transfer bids for world-class stars, have vowed...
A famed goalscoring midfielder with Manchester United FC and a FIFA World Cup winner with England, Sir Bobby Charlton will field uefa.com users' questions from 14.45CET on Friday.
European champion
The 70-year-old Manchester United director joins...
It was December 1969; I was one of the 49,344 people in Old Trafford, with its ambitious cantilevered stands, to attend my first football match.
I was here to watch Man United the European Cup Holders, vs Chelsea, with my dad and brother,...
Background
Sir Robert "Bobby" Charlton, CBE (born 11 October 1937 in Ashington, Northumberland) is a former English professional football player who won the World Cup and was named the European Footballer of the Year in 1966. He played almost all of his club football at Manchester United, where he became renowned for his attacking instincts from midfield and his ferocious long-range shot.
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