... than the away kit (which was a horror show, to be honest). Anyway here are the pics, after the fold. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Manchester United 08/09 Third Kit: It Really Is Better...", url: "http://redrants.com/manchester-united-0809-third-kit-it-really-is-better/" }); Click to continue reading...

J. R. R. Tolkien was a great dreamer. Which was perhaps why the Lord of the Rings was a rather good fantasy novel. It had all those elements one would ask for in a well written fantasy: the good, pure evil, adventure, perils, the good getting lured by the evil. So forgive me if I spend [...]SHARETHIS. Click to continue reading...

Three days have passed since the Euros got over. We haven't signed anyone. Doom, gloom and hearts stopping left, right and centre. People are dying. Wayne Rooney is partying in Vegas with his newly married wife with the likes of Le Bron James in tow. Fergie's giving interviews over a game of golf. Ronaldo is [. Click to continue reading...

Sir Alex returned to Old Trafford and regular work as he spoke to the press. He said that whilst he'd be looking to start actively scouring the transfer market, he would really be looking to buy one or two players at the most. Now some people may be worried about the apparent lack of ambition [...]SHARETHIS. Click to continue reading...

Is Michel Platini for real? Or is this different from the rather good player that strolled the park many years ago? Yesterday he made a statement backing Real Madrid over the Ronaldo saga. Now, I don't have any problem with UEFA over not taking action against Real; there is hardly any substantial evidence to back [. Click to continue reading...

Yesterday it came to everyone's knowledge that 5 players from the United academy were released. A club statement was issued: Midfielders Michael Barnes, Sean Evans and Ritchie Jones and defenders Kieran Lee and Michael Lea are all free to leave Old Trafford as of 30 June. Academy striker Chris Fagan and fellow scholar Conor McCormack have [. Click to continue reading...

[Warning - this is a longer than usual post, since this is too big a topic to cover in a few snappy paragraphs. Still, I think it's an important area, so if you have a few minutes then settle in for a read and a think.] There's no doubt that we have been spoilt in the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Is Manchester United's Youth System Redundant? Click to continue reading...

... and Scolari and Wenger. He thinks the Premiership is the best league; he watches the English league in the weekends; and, more importantly, he wants to change clubs. He said all this in an interview to the BBC [audio link -- thanks to a comment from yesterday's post.] So where's the catch? Well, for one, [. Click to continue reading...

Carlos Queiroz has been linked with the Portugal job since Scolari quit, and for good reason too; he's done a great job at United and won over a lot of fans with time. The man himself has been coy over his future refusing to speak anything, citing the now popular excuse with the Man United [...]SHARETHIS. Click to continue reading...

Welcome back. Hopefully most of you might be able to read this now that the site is fully functional. As mentioned yesterday, we went through a bit of house cleaning house moving, rather as we shifted servers and made changes to the backend. While we planned an overhaul of the visible part, we [. Click to continue reading...

RedRants.com is moving from a crap web server to a kick-ass web server. This will hopefully mean no more outages - no db errors, no 'site down' because of too much traffic, etc etc. The whole process is akin to flipping a switch, but there's a 24 to 48 hour period during which some people [...] Click to continue reading...

I know this question has been posed before, but I think it deserves a separate space of it's own. [Why you ask? Because I think it does!] On a day where the likes of Zizou have jumped in on the Ronaldo should go to Madrid bandwagon I'd rather sidestep Ronaldo talk for a day and talk [...] Click to continue reading...

[Warning: Highly speculative article involving yours' truly thinking out loud for most part. Kindly bear and do add your 2 pennies' worth at the end.] Yesterday, following Ronaldo's interview with Guillem Balague Manchester United Football Club, issued a statement on its official site reaffirming what it's been saying all along: that Ronaldo is not for sale. Click to continue reading...

I saw this link directly from the Guillem Balague exclusive interview (from his website) with Ronaldo, after writing this article. [thanks Ben from the comments] So I suggest you read that interview before reading my post, because what I wrote doesn't really matter now. So Portugal, after a mini-drama that threatened to spoil my day, [. Click to continue reading...

I've been meaning to write a set of guidelines to make certain things clear to commenters on this site. Of course, these are in addition to the comments policy on this site. What I am going to say won't be ground-breakingly new but a repeat of things I've been saying all along for about a [...] Click to continue reading...