Contrary to the rubbish we wrote about not winning anything with kids, Man Utd look like their young players may well do fine. Or did we really learn that? In the second half, City were about as effective as an : chocolate fireplace/paper bucket/Steve McLaren team talk etc etc. So to say that United suddenly have a whole slew of young defenders ready to take...
Michael Mancienne’s transfer to Hamburg reduces the English contingent at Chelsea by yet one more. And okay, maybe Mancienne wasn’t the same calibre as John Terry, but it is still another sad decline in the opportunities which exist at Stamford Bridge for English players – whether home grown or even transferred in. There were actually 10 English players in Chelsea’s squad last season (9 really, because of Sam Hutchinson’s...
