The men in red have just signed a new deal with Azerbaijan Telecommunication Company: Bakcell for a three years term. During these three years, Bakcell will be the Manchester United’s sole communication partner, perhaps Bakcell is the first broadcasting partner of Manchester United. The Red Devils have announced it on Monday and explained it as a part of their global strategic expansion. This deal is one of the many sponsorship deals signed by Manchester United and first in the telecommunication sector. According to the deal, Bakcell will telecast MUTV channel in Azerbaijan along with offering multiple add-on services related to Manchester United, like its matches highlights, latest news, and interesting facts, etc., on pay per usage basis. Notably, in a survey conducted by club itself early this year, it has a record number of fans following throughout the world, and around 1.75 million of them belong to Azerbaijan alone, so this deal could bring lots of revenue for Bakcell whilst … [Read more...]
Wayne Rooney to Captain England for World Cup Qualifier
Wembley is going to host England’s coming world cup qualifier against San Marino, but English team will be headed by a new captain - Manchester United’s striker - Wayne Rooney. This would be the first big international match for Rooney as being a captain in front of a crowd of 90000 spectators. The 26 years old starlet got its feet into captain’s shoes after England’s regular captain and vice-captain both are out for their own reasons. Though, he has the experience of captaincy, but that was just for one match against Brazil in 2009 where he captained national English soccer team. It happens to bring two surprised gifts for him: one, he got captaincy, and second is yet to come in form of a beautiful baby. Yes, he and his wife Coleen are expecting their second baby. At the moment, he and England manager Roy Hodgson both are equally existing and pressured to display their best form in this qualifier ahead of their probable world cup entry. Notably, England soccer team is ranked fifth by … [Read more...]
Abusive Tweets, Mark Halsey Complaints to Police
How Premier league’s matches leave their impact on fans’ mind was shown on Sunday after Liverpool and Manchester United match where Manchester United defeated Liverpool by a decisive last minute goal through a penalty rewarded by referee Mark Halsey to Robin van Persie. This penalty changed the game in Manchester United’s favor and Liverpool lost another match only to bring it down to eighteenth spot on leaderboard. Manchester United, with this win, secured its second place on the ranking table. Nonetheless, the match is more known for the fans retaliation to referee’s penalty decision which caused Liverpool a match. Referee Mark Halsey, who has long been fighting with his cancer, got some abusive tweets by the apparent fans of Liverpool; these tweets were targeted towards his personal health issues which disturbed him the most. He filed an official complaint with police and tweeter also took action immediately by removing those abusive tweets and banning one of two said accounts where … [Read more...]
Wayne Rooney is expected to be fit by next week
Manchester United has been missing two of their key players due to their injuries. Wayne Rooney and Ashley Young both are undergoing their treatments hence they are not likely to be available for Manchester United this weekend. However, by next week, Wayne Rooney is expected to be fit and fine as declared by MU boss Sir Alex Ferguson. He told in a press conference held at Carrington where he talked about his two main injured players and told about his team’s strategy for next matches. He also made it clear that all players, who played on Wednesday, are available for the next match against Liverpool on Sunday. He also ruled out any possibility of Rooney to return by this Sunday and hinted his sure recovery by next week. As Rooney is expected to return by next week, another injured player Ashley Young is yet to recover from his bruised cartilage for which he could take another two to three weeks. Till then, Manchester United will come on the field without Rooney and Ashley. Notably, … [Read more...]
Rio wants to end his career with MU
Rio Ferdinand, the man behind MU’s successes in last few years has said that he would like to be with Manchester United until he is thrown out by the manager. Notably, the star footballer still has one whole year left under the contract between him and MU club. He is also near to mark his 400th match presence for MU in last ten years. The long and dedicated association between Rio and MU could be revived if 33 years old football could manage to remain fit and healthy, coz not many 30 plus players can make it for Manchester United. During his tenure of ten long years, Manchester United won several titles, like Premium League five times, FA cup once, League Cup twice, and many more. Recently, Rio gave an interview to an English newspaper where he discussed about his future plans. He, however, recalls his rememberable journey for Manchester United and said, I known how it feels to be here for so long time and I will continue playing for MU till Sir Alex Ferguson finds him eligible and fit … [Read more...]
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