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is on Facebook! Join the group by visiting: facebook.com/groups/rollinreds Meet and chat with other MUDSA members. Share your matchday stories and photos for the magazine and even submit your questions for the player interviews! THE OFFICIAL MUDSA MAGAZINE VOLUME 21, ISSUE 1, AUTUMN 2017 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Juan Mata PLUS: 10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Anthony Martial 2 CONTENTS CONTENTS 3 Full set: Following their Europa League Final victory in Stockholm, United have now won every club-level trophy there is to win Inside this edition… The official MUDSA magazine 4 Secretary Says: with Chas Banks 6 Summer Transfers: with Nathaniel Yates Volume 21, Issue 1, Autumn 2017 8 Events: MUDSA 20th Annual Dinner This magazine is issued free of charge to MUDSA 10 Anthony Martial members. You can also view Rollin’ Reds and Things You Didn’t Know: Your MUDSA Committee… download it in PDF format from our website: 12 Europa League: MUDSA in Stockholm CHAS BANKS JAMIE LEEMING www.mudsa.org 14 Meet The Boss: with Nathaniel Yates SECRETARY ROLLIN’ REDS EDITOR Photography: John and Matthew Peters 15 Get Creative: Pull-out colouring in section T: 0845 230 1989 T: 07590 406 669 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Design/production: leemingdesign.co.uk 19 Exclusive Interview: Juan Mata Thanks this issue: Richard Trenchard 24 Events: MUDSA Bowling ANN-MARIE LEWIS SUE ROCCA John Allen 30 Fan Focus MUDSA EVENTS TREASURER Home and Away: T: 01352 715 794 T: 0161 861 9454 32 Souvenirs: MUDSA Merchandise E: [email protected] E: [email protected] DES TURNER JOHN SIMISTER Rollin’ Reds on Facebook: ROLLIN’ REDS PRODUCTION VI REPRESENTITIVE facebook.com/groups/rollinreds Keep yourself up to date with the T: 01978 810 528 T: 07471 195 930 MUDSA on Facebook: latest news by visiting E: [email protected] E: [email protected] facebook.com/MUDSA.official www.mudsa.org 4 SECRETARY SAYS SECRETARY SAYS 5 Nobody’s happy about new platform opening delays, especially the Club It’s been a while since I last wrote my article for have access and we will certainly be making that Rollin’ Reds magazine. In that time, a lot of things opinion known to the club. that were just speculation have come to pass and On a brighter note, we have seen a huge some of the “best laid plans” have indeed “gone improvement in the steps leading to the VI section astray” as Burns once said. and our VI members have reported back about NATHANIEL YATES The plan to deploy the first part of the new how much safer and easier to use the new steps are CO-OPTED TO MUDSA wheelchair accessible platform facilities in the Sir compared to the old ones. Alex Ferguson stand has been delayed. This was due We’ve also seen two examples of the new COMMITTEE AT AGM to the unforeseen necessity of studying the impact of wheelchair facilities being deployed in the South/Sir On Friday 8th September we held the MUDSA able-bodied fans sharing the same spaces as disabled Bobby Charlton stand. The first was the game against AGM in the Phil Downs Ability Suite and it was well fans. Some in wheelchairs, others with walking Burton Albion when all 20 spaces were in use. The attended as usual. This year we pushed the boat difficulties who normally try to avoid crowds. There is also the further knock-on effect of access second was the Spurs game when half the platform out and provided tea and coffee plus biscuits! I’m You should all have received letters explaining the to the Ability Suite being denied to some fans, whilst was used, giving 10 extra wheelchair places. pleased to be able to report Ann Marie Lewis, John club’s logic behind this decision and I do believe they others continue to have access. We know that this Reports back from the members who used the Simister and Jamie Leeming were all re-elected to are as disappointed as we were with having to delay will be in force for the foreseeable future, but we new spaces was 100% positive, with people seriously serve for another three years. the implementation of the new platform. want to see the day when everyone will once more impressed with the quality of the views. We also used the occasion to co-opt Nathaniel Yates on to the committee, with a view to him being elected at next year’s AGM as a full member. Nathaniel is going to serve as MUDSA’s Junior ambassador and as well as chatting with our younger members, he will liaise with the 4 Foundation when they start their outreach programme. Nathaniel is 24 and has been a MUDSA member since he was 10-years-old, so he has grown up with us and when he gave his acceptance speech, he said MUDSA had made him the person he is today. I have to say the speech was very moving and everyone in the room gave him a very enthusiastic round of applause. The Committee believe he is going to be a great asset to MUDSA plus he brings the average age of the “team” down by 20 years! MUDSA TRIP TO STOCKHOLM FOR EURO FINAL MARKED WITH NEW ABILITY SUITE MONTAGE Legend Giggs guests at MUDSA 20th dinner On May 24th, MUDSA (with the assistance of the Club) organised a trip to Stockholm to watch the Reds 2017 beat Ajax 2-0 to win the Europa League Final. We had 72+ disabled members on the flight with their On Friday 27th October, we held the 20th MUDSA Annual Dinner carers and we even picked up Robbie Savage on the way home. annual dinner in Old Trafford’s Manchester Suite, No: Friday 27th October Ticket Guest speaker is Ryan Giggs The Manchester Suite, A big thank you to Sam, Emma and Lenny from the ticket office for all their hard work plus, of course, with 600 people attending. Ryan Giggs was the plus comedy from Sean Styles Old Trafford, Manchester and as ever, your MC is Mark Jones 7.15pm for 8pm Price £35 with late bar an even bigger thank you to Richard Arnold and the club for providing the financial assistance to enable special guest and was absolutely brilliant. Dress: Lounge suit, minimum age: 16 Ticket No: us to price the trip at an affordable level. We made a couple of presentations to our long- 2017 27, October We collected dozens of photos from most of the travellers and together with some help from John term workers and supporters to celebrate the Peters, the official club photographer, Jamie designed and organised the manufacture of a beautiful occasion and my wife Shirley and I were pleased, Annual Dinner Old Trafford Suite, The Manchester bar 8pm with late for 7.15pm montage to fit on the wall of the Phil Downs Ability Suite. Well done Jamie and a big thank you to GPS honoured, but most of all surprised, to be presented for mounting it on the wall for us. with a small gift from the committee and members, so to serve and represent all the members, so don’t Membership numbers are over 700+ now with a steady stream of new people joining each month. If a big thank you from both of us to the organisers of hesitate to let us know if you have a problem or just you haven’t already joined, please visit the MUDSA web site and sign up. It is free to join too! that surprise — it really was most appreciated. want to discuss something. We’re here to help. Finally, please remember the Committee are here Chas Banks — Secretary MUDSA 6 ROLLIN’ RUMOURS ROLLIN’ RUMOURS 7 Romelu Lukaku Everton Jose’s £76m Gelson Martins Kylian Mbappé Cristiano Ronaldo Bernardo Silva Sporting Lisbon Monaco Real Madrid Monaco £52m £51m £2bn £183.5m £70m squad Every summer the British newspapers fill football Alexandre Lacazette Emil Forsberg fans with hope of megabucks deals for the top Kasper Schmeichel Ryan Sessegnon Michael Keane Lyon Leipzig players from around the world, and this year’s Leicester City Fulham Burnley £50m £45m transfer window didn’t disappoint. £30m £15m £20m MUDSA’s new recruit, Nathaniel Yates, has been keeping tabs on all the rumours and has compiled this list 6 of nearly £2billion pounds’ worth of footballing talent rumoured to have Tiemoue Bakayoko Eric Dier Fabinho been heading to James Rodriguez Serge Aurier Antoine Griezmann Monaco Tottenham Monaco Old Trafford this Real Madrid PSG Atletico Madrid £45m £40m £50m summer… £68m £25m £86m Nemanja Matic Victor Lindelof Chelsea Benfica Andre Gomes Blaise Matuidi Ross Barkley Neymar £40m £31m Sergi Roberto Anderson Talisca Alvaro Morata Barcelona PSG Everton Barcelona Barcelona Benfica Real Madrid £35m 125m £50m £174m £36m £15m £52m Lucas Moura Renato Sanches Andrea Belotti Kostas Manolas Gareth Bale Radja Nainggolan Jan Oblak Sergio Aguero Douglas Costa Ivan Perisic PSG Bayern Munich Torino Roma Real Madrid Roma Atletico Madrid Manchester City Bayern Munchen Inter Milan £40m £30m £85m £32.5m £100m £30m £40m £55m £ 34.9m £39m 8 20th MUDSA ANNUAL DINNER 20th MUDSA ANNUAL DINNER 9 Ryan presents Chas and Shirley with a commemorative plate and flowers Ryan presents Christine and Gena 8 with flowers 20 times, 20 times, MUDSA dinner… Two decades ago when we organised the very first MUDSA dinner, we were thrilled when 110 people United legend Ryan Giggs turned up to see Sir Alex Ferguson speak. The original idea was to create an event that, appears as guest speaker over the years, would grow and become the flagship at MUDSA’s landmark event of MUDSA’s busy social calendar… and how it’s grown!… But we never envisaged the day when 600 20th Annual Dinner event people would attend as they did for this year’s dinner.