Manchester United

We all know about the "big four" club:Manchester United,Liverpool,Arsenal and Chelsea. Here will be about Manchester United. The next post will be about Liverpool.

Manchester United or also known as The Red Devil is founded by employees of Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's Carriage and Wagon in 1878. Manchester is the professional football club that play at Old Trafford in Stretford,Greater Manchester. Manchester United is the most succesful club in history of English League and the MOST SUPPORTED football team in the WORLD! They won over 18 League Title and 11 FA Club. In 1969 Manchester was the poorest club which has financial problem and the worst club. In 1986 when Alex Ferguson become the manager of Manchester United,all the financial problem in the club start to fade, and Manchester United become the best club every year
Manchester United Logo(1998) :D
Manchester United Logo(1960)

The manager of Manchester United is Alex Ferguson seen 6th November 1986 and is the most succesful manager in the Club's History having won over 26 major honours. Sir Alex Ferguson (Manager of MUFC)

Manchester United club captain is Gary neville who succeded Roy Keane in November 2005

Gary Neville :)













Roy Keane

Manchester United has 47 players.
Here are the list of Manchester United players including their position.
p/s: we copy the name list with the link from www.eurorivals.net

MANCHESTER UNITED SQUAD: GOALKEEPERS Edwin Van Der Sar Ben Foster Tomasz Kuszczak Ron-Robert Zieler

MANCHESTER UNITED SQUAD: DEFENDERS Gary Neville Patrice Evra Rio Ferdinand Wes Brown Nemanja Vidic Fabio Rafael John O'Shea Jonny Evans Ritchie De Laet Corry Evans David Gray Craig Cathcart James Chester Joe Dudgeon Oliver Gill

MANCHESTER UNITED SQUAD: MIDFIELDERS Owen Hargreaves Anderson Ryan Giggs Park Ji-Sung Michael Carrick Nani Paul Scholes Darren Fletcher Luis Antonio Valencia Darron Gibson Magnus Eikrem Matthew James Cameron Stewart Oliver Norwood

MANCHESTER UNITED SQUAD: FORWARDS Michael Owen Dimitar Berbatov Wayne Rooney Gabriel Obertan Federico Macheda Mame Biram Diouf Joshua King

That's all for this post, next up Liverpool FC.

English Football Leagues and Cup Competitions.

In England, there are many leagues and cup competitions. There are four "big" leagues in England which are The Premier League, The Championship, League One and League Two. While in cup competition, there are 2 important ones- The FA Cup and English League Cup(also known as The Carling Cup due to their sponsor). We from first-time bloggers are going to explain on what the leagues are, the teams and many other details so please don't get bored reading(seriously).

THE PREMIER LEAGUE

The Premier League is one of the most successful and richest league in the world of football today. It consists of 20 teams, each holding the pride and honour of being in England's elite group of football teams.
The teams are(as of 26th April 2009; according to league position):

1. Chealsea FC
   
2. Manchester United FC
   
3. Arsenel FC
   
4. Tottenham Hotspur
5. Aston Villa
6. Manchester City
7. Liverpool FC
   
8. Everton
9. Birmingham City
10. Sunderland
11. Blackburn
12. Fulham
13. Stoke City
14. Bolton Wanderers
15. Wolverhampton(Wolves)
16. Wigan Athletic
17. West Ham United
18. Hull City
19. Burnley(relegated for Championship in 2010/11 season)
20. Portsmouth(relegated for Championship in 2010/11 season)

The best teams in The Premier League are Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal. These four teams have long been known as the "big four" for their success in domestic, regional and international football. But in the 2009/10 season, the "big four" was renamed to the "big seven" with Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and Manchester City on their rise to success in the Premier League. The Premier League season is played with a total of 380 matches per season.

Manchester United and Liverpool hold the record for having the most number of titles(18 each). Teams nowadays can qualify for European cup competitions by finishing the season in 1st to the 8th place of the Premier League table.

This is a picture of the current Premier League trophy:D


The next post will be on the lower divisions of English Football.
Thank you for reading :)

History of English Football :D

Legend tells us that Football has been existed since Medieval times where unfortunately the game was played by Mobs at public executions where they used the head of a victim as their ball. Although it may not seem to be true, the national sport, football did start during the medieval times, but in a less gruesome way :P

In other case, the sport was introduced as a physical education classes throughout England.

William McGregor in Aston Villa first established English Football League on 8 September 1888 originally with 12 members club only.

William Mc Gregor(Founder of English League)

*smile for the camera*

First Logo of English League(1888)

*not bad*

There were over 72 football clubs from England and Wales in 1995 and split up into three divisions: The Championship, League One and League Two. Each division has about 24 clubs. The club getting increases every decade. About 92 club in 1950 and increase to 130 clubs in 2007. The first club that wins for 18 League title was Manchester United with Liverpool in 1901. After world war 1, Liverpool and Everton never been crowned as Championship for a quarter century. In 1980s new logo was made and replace the old logo.

New logo(1980-2004)
*hmm nice*









In 2004 First Division,Second Division and Third Division were renamed as FOOTBALL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP,FOOTBALL LEAGUE ONE and FOOTBALL LEAGUE TWO.New Logo also was made

New Logo(2004)
*very nice*





That is all for our first entries :P Hope you enjoy it :)
p/s We summaries everything