Fletcher back as Bébé misses out

Bebe

Manchester United’s Premier and Champions League lists, confirmed on Tuesday, include Scottish captain Darren Fletcher, with the 28-year-old seemingly on the verge of a return to first team action this season. However, £7.4 million Portuguese misfit Bébé misses out on European action as Sir Alex Ferguson named his squads for the first half of the [...]

Hit the road Malc

Edward Woodward

Manchester United’s commercial team launched the club’s investor roadshow on Thursday ahead of an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in New York this August. The team, comprising chief strategist Edward Woodward, commercial director Richard Arnold, and operations head Michael Bollingbrook, is meeting potential investors in Asia, Europe and the US ahead to drum up interest in [...]

United Rant Fantasy League 2012/13

United Rant Fantasy League

Join fellow Rant readers for another year of Fantasy Premier League. Based on the official Premier League competition, the United Rant League is available at fantasy.premierleague.com with the entry code 385741-103613. Last year there were hundreds of players, with Paul Khauli taking the glory on the final day. Entry, as ever, is free.

United get Everton in season opener

Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Fergsuon’s Manchester United will face Everton at Goodison Park to open the new Premier League season after the fixtures for the 2012/13 campaign were unveiled Monday morning. Last season’s runners-up will face David Moyes’ Toffees, Fulham and newly promoted Southampton before August is out as United aim for a 20th English title. The [...]

Reds welcome Andreas Hoelgebaum Pereira

Andreas Hoelgebaum Pereira

Manchester United supporters might be forgiven for welcoming yet another highly rated youth prospect to Old Trafford with a grudging nod. After all, while United’s policy of hoovering up the very finest youth talent, especially creative midfielders, is a prudent one, the here-and-now also matters such is the shambles of the Reds’ central midfield at [...]

Compo: Get up close with Best and Cantona…

Live Breath Futbol

… T-Shirts that is, in Rant’s competition to win this fantastic pair of original designs from Live Breathe Futbol. Arguably the two finest players to grace Old Trafford, Best and Cantona have  appeared in more than 650 games for United, scoring 262 goals between them. From Best’s dribbling, to Cantona’s ability to ‘open the can’, [...]

Win a signed 2010/11 United shirt and stadium tours with Betfair

Betfair Stars & Strikes

* competition now closed* Here’s a chance to win a signed Manchester United shirt and one of 20 Old Trafford stadium tours, with United Rant and @BetfairSports! Proving once again that not only does Rant giveth, but giveths again. In Betfair’s latest ad, United winger Ashley Young takes on team-mates Dimitar Berbatov and Patrice Evra [...]

MUST evokes memories of Best … and Kitchener in new campaign

MUST campaign poster

The Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST) needs you… to don the Green & Gold of protest and force the Glazer family to use autumn IPO proceeds to rid the club of debt. At least that’s the message of MUST’s new poster campaign, which was launched today. Staring George Best in Lord Kitchener mode, the new [...]

Rant fantasy football league 2011/12

Fantasy Football

This season the United Rant community is holding, for the first time in seven years, a Fantasy League competition. Based on the official Premier League competition, the United Rant league is available at fantasy.premierleague.com with the entry code 288020-112982. Entry is free and Rant will offer additional prizes for the league winner.

Win tickets to the FA Community Shield

McDonald's Community Shield Competition

** Update – competition is now closed ** We’ve teamed up with McDonald’s, the official Community Partner of the FA, to offer ten readers the chance to win two match tickets to watch Manchester United take on Manchester City at The FA Community Shield, sponsored by McDonald’s, on 7 August at Wembley Stadium. This year’s [...]