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Sir Alex Ferguson says Manchester United are on track to win the Premier League title despite losing to Chelsea last week.

Wayne could be on the bench against West Ham, but Vidic misses out.

Tevez to score in a one-nil win - for United this time - is priced 25/1.

Four Manchester United fans sentenced to over two years in prison in Italy have been released on appeal.

Manchester United legend Peter Schmeichel tells BBC Sport his former club win the Premier League on goal difference.

Sir Alex Ferguson says Cristiano Ronaldo will only get better.

Owen Hargreaves is confident Reds can secure two wins for title glory.

Wes Brown wants United fans to repeat Barca atmosphere on Saturday.

Wayne Rooney could be a sub against West Ham, but Vidic misses out.

Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo is named Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association for the second year running.

Sir Alex Ferguson will move to address Manchester United’s problem right back position with a £15 million bid for Portugal international defender Jose Bosingwa this summer.

Cristiano Ronaldo has capped a great season with the Football Writers’ Footballer of the Year award

Today’s rumours are sure it must be beer o’clock by now

Manchester United defender Mikael Silvestre is relishing the end-of-season showdown with Chelsea.

Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association.

The Manchester United winger collects the Football Writers’ Association’s Footballer of the Year title for a second year

The Manchester United striker is losing his battle to be fit for the visit of West Ham, plus the rest of the team news

Cristiano Ronaldo has become only the second player in the history of English football to be named both the Football Writers’ Footballer of the Year and Players’ Player of the year in successive seasons.

Negotiations are almost complete between Uefa and the Moscow authorities on a scheme which could ease the passage for many of the 42,000 supporters of Chelsea and Manchester United travelling to the May 21 Champions League final.

Sir Alex Ferguson has not got the opponents he wanted in Moscow and has good reason to fear Chelsea’s zest, says Kevin McCarra

Moscow to stage English power struggle, writes Henry Winter.

Sir Alex Ferguson will not take any risks with the fitness of Wayne Rooney when Manchester United face West Ham United at Old Trafford, with the forward expected to play no part against Alan Curbishley’s side.

The two dominant forces in Europe and the Premier League are well matched. Don Howe assesses how they measure up.

Kevin McCarra: Sir Alex Ferguson has not got the opponents he wanted in Moscow and has good reason to fear Chelsea’s zest

Manchester United and Chelsea were doing their utmost yesterday to ensure that their supporters would be able to get to Moscow for the European Cup final on 21 May.

Frank Rijkaard, doomed but surely not dishonoured at Barcelona after winning one Champions League title of imperishable beauty with players like Ronaldinho and Lionel Messi, may well have provoked the best of all possible scenarios when Manchester United and Chelsea collide beside the Moscow River in three weeks’ time.

Manchester United striker, dogged by a hip injury, is highly doubtful to play against West Ham United tomorrow

Get the lowdown on West Ham ahead of Saturday’s must-win clash at OT.

English supporters furious that Russian Embassy has hiked price of a visa for those wanting to attend Champions League final

William Gaillard, Uefa’s director of communications, says the governing body is looking forward to football coming out on top

Have your say on United’s outstanding player and goal of April.

Two goals from Ronaldo, and one each from Nani, Tevez and Scholes make up the list of Manchester United’s greatest goals of the season.

After two failed attempts, Park is elated to reach the Champions League final.

Silvestre says Barca win will inspire Reds to retain the league title.

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Barcelona midfielder Xavi has said that Manchester United’s performances over their two Champions League semi-finals against Barcelona did not justify the English side’s progression to this month’s Moscow final.

Chelsea edge extra time thriller to book a date with United in Moscow.

Cristiano Ronaldo sets his sights on European and domestic glory.

Manchester United are the richest football club in the world, says Forbes magazine.

Paul Scholes has sampled a decade of Champions’ League ups and downs, writes Tim Rich.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s girlfriend has been seen sporting ‘R7′ earrings

United are seeing the benefit of Alex Ferguson’s recent focus on defence and doggedness, writes Kevin McCarra

Ferguson hopes that his striker will have recovered in time to play some role in the Premier League match against West Ham.

In reaching their third European Cup final, two of Manchester United’s older men - Paul Scholes and Edwin van der Sar - took centre stage.

Tim Dowling: An estimated 40,000 British fans will try to travel to Moscow for the Champions League final match, if they can afford it

Simmering diplomatic row threatens to prevent thousands of the clubs’ supporters travelling to Russia

It could be dismissed as sour grapes from a coach who knows he is to be fired, but Frank Rijkaard had a point yesterday when he added a barbed caveat to his glowing tribute to the strength of English club football. “I think the level of English teams is very high,” said the Dutch coach who oversaw Barcelona’s Champions League success in 2006. He added: “If it were not for the fact two had to play each other [Liverpool beat Arsenal in the quarter-finals] you could easily have had four teams in the semi-finals as it is very difficult to beat them. They are very strong and very disciplined, really very tough to beat.”

As Manchester United basked in the glory of reaching their third European Cup final yesterday there was positive news on the injury front as they turn their attentions to wrapping up the Premier League title.

There is an old tale about Paul Scholes’ years playing junior football in Salford that he would find the competition so easy he had a habit of ditching games at half-time or not bothering to turn up at all. So much so that Manchester United dispatched their then assistant manager Brian Kidd to watch and to encourage Scholes to show up. Twenty years on and he has not lost that tendency to slip away quietly.

After scoring the winning goal in the Champions League semi-finals, midfield player can make up for missing out in 1999