Manchester United news and links

JOHN O’Shea has hailed his Manchester United team-mates Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic as the best central defensive partnership in Europe.

IT’S a pity Diego Maradona didn’t take up the VIP seat he said he’d occupy to watch his mate Carlos Tevez.

FC United must replay their FA Trophy preliminary round at Radcliffe on Wednesday night after hosts Bradford Park Avenue grabbed a controversial second-half equaliser in a 1-1 draw.

NEMANJA Vidic’s headache could be eased by a new lucrative contract at Old Trafford.

UNITED have been linked with versatile Portuguese youngster Miguel Veloso.

Manchester United 4 Wigan 0: The 19-year-old Brazil midfield player grabbed the chance to show what he could do

Roy Keane is backing Manchester United to dismiss Arsenal’s challenge and collect consecutive championships

Arsenal and Chelsea both win, but Liverpool draw on a packed Sunday.

Man Utd’s Gary Neville could make his return from injury against Liverpool reserves on Thursday.

Cristiano Ronaldo believes United will hold onto the Championship crown.

Anderson going on loan and a couple of others.

Keane wants Evans and Simpson back at Sunderland where they were on loan last season.

Ferguson: “The long-term view with Nani was that he would come in for Giggs now and again.”

Darren reveals that he broke his leg in the last month’s international against France.

Saha’s quotes before getting injured in the warm up yesterday.

No complacency for him as he salutes Mourinho.

Ferguson is happy with his squad.

No surprises as deluge occurs and Saha gets injured in the warm up.

Manchester United 4 Wigan 0: Carlos Tevez helped the Reds to a comfortable victory with an outstanding strike at Old Trafford

Manchester United (0) 4 Wigan Athletic (0) 0For Wigan, who harried and defended well in the opening 45 minutes, this was an all too familiar story. This was their 18th Premier League game against a top-four side and every one has ended in defeat.

Now I have left the Premier League for Barcelona, I can come out with my true feelings about Roy Keane – I am a big admirer of the former Manchester United captain and always have been, writes Thierry Henry.

DANNY Simpson admits he fulfilled a dream by making his league debut for Manchester United.

GARY Neville is expected to make a long-awaited return to action this week.

RYAN Giggs reckons Manchester United’s goal-scoring worries are well and truly behind them.

CARLOS Tevez earned the plaudits of Sir Alex Ferguson after the 4-0 victory against Wigan.

SEE how United’s players rated during their 4-0 win against Wigan.

Match report for today’s home win in the early kick-off versus Wigan Athletic

Ryan Giggs was happy to see United get back to free-scoring ways.

Chris Hutchings admits his side could have suffered a hammering at OT.

Sir Alex confident Vidic, O’Shea and Saha injuries are not serious.

On a sparse Saturday, Aston Villa beat West Ham at Villa Park.

See the best of the action from Old Trafford on MUTV and MUTV Online.

Roy Keane wants Manchester United defenders Jonny Evans and Dannyn Simpson on loan.

Confirmation of the starting eleven and substitutes named for today’s early kick-off at home to Wigan Athletic.

SIR Alex Ferguson was delighted with the depth of his squad after watching Manchester United record a 4-0 win against Wigan to climb to the top of the Premier League.

MANCHESTER United finally broke their goalscoring shackles to crush Wigan at Old Trafford.

RYAN Giggs’ long-term future at Old Trafford is being cared for by a Nani.

UNITED are currently enduring their leanest goalscoring spell at the start of a season since the 1973-74 campaign when Tommy Docherty’s struggling side were relegated!

Watch Sir Alex Ferguson’s pre-Wigan press conference in full on MUTV Online.

The Manchester United manager says he feels his side’s run of 1-0 results is to end, which could be bad news for Wigan Athletic

Youngster Lee Martin joins Ian Holloway’s Plymouth side on loan.

Louis Saha or Carlos Tevez? Sir Alex must decide who will partner Wayne Rooney.

The Manchester United player has been ruled out for another month through injury after reporting discomfort in training

The Manchester United midfield player joins the list of players unavailable for the forthcoming Euro 2008 qualifiers

Prepare the Cotton Wool, we have to move him abroad!

He likes playing with Ferdinand

New breed of fan eh!

You know the drill

Carrick injured, Neville still not back and another injury for Hargreaves

After missing the Roma win, Wes Brown is a doubt to face Wigan.