Matteo Darmian PLUS: 10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Memphis Depay 2 CONTENTS Vol 19 | Issue 1 | | CONTENTS Vol 19 | Issue 1 3
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DISABLED SUPPORTERS ASSOCIATION Disabled Supporters Association THE OFFICIAL MUDSA MAGAZINE VOLUME 19, ISSUE 1, SUMMER 2015 DISABLED SUPPORTERS ASSOCIATION acebook! is now on F Join the group by visiting: facebook.com/groups/rollinreds We’ll be asking you for your matchday stories and photos for the magazine and even your questions for the player interviews! Get involved! EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH Matteo Darmian PLUS: 10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Memphis Depay 2 CONTENTS Vol 19 | Issue 1 | | CONTENTS Vol 19 | Issue 1 3 Opening his account... Memphis scored two stylish goals at Old Trafford in August to open his Manchester United account. PHIL DOWNS, MBE SUE ROCCA SECRETARY/DLO TREASURER C/O Ticketing & Membership Services, 113 Darley Avenue, Inside this edition… Manchester United, Sir Matt Busby Way, Manchester, M21 7QR Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 0RA T: 0161 861 9454 4 The Platform with Jamie T: 0845 230 1989 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] 5 Team Talk with Chas JOHN SIMISTER 6 secretary says… with Phil JAMIE LEEMING VI REPRESENTITIVE 8 MUDSA goes to the dogs! EDITOR C/O Ticketing & Membership Services, The official MUDsA magazine Pictures: 1 Althorpe Drive, Southport, PR8 6HS Manchester United, Sir Matt Busby Way, Volume 19, Issue 1, Summer 2015 10 Things You Didn’t Know: Memphis T: 07590 406669 Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 0RA This magazine is issued free of charge to MUDSA 12 Pictures: The £850m Squad E: [email protected] T: 07521 863737 members. 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The previous edition only websites like Twitter and Facebook. by reading the last one I wrote. Well, that to having already agreed personal terms with the Hseems like yesterday but time flies when As usual we have comment from Chas Banks Ewas back in March we’d just destroyed player.Still, I’m pleased he’s staying for at least the you’re busy, and what a busy summer it’s been and the latest MUDSA news from Phil Downs on Spurs at Old Trafford and were looking next four years. in the transfer market with Premier League clubs pages 5 and 6 respectively, followed by 10 things forward to travelling to Anfield with a bit of a Getting back to the actual football, we began with spending more that £870m on new players. you probably didn’t know about our new attacking metaphorical spring in our step. a bit of a flukey win against Spurs in the manner of But did you know that even though Manchester midfielder, Memphis. But be warned — one of the As we now know, it went pretty much as well as the goal, but also with a solid defensive performance United have brought in six new players, we’ve only facts about Memphis might not be true — you decide! we could have hoped for (apart from Wayne missing that clearly showed we have finally got two proper spent around £40m? That’s less than City spent on Bringing up the rear of the magazine we managed the penalty at the end of the game!) with the added full-backs again. I loved Raphael going forward, Raheem Sterling but that figure takes into account to get a celebrity interview with Happy Mondays’ bonus of seeing Stevie G’s last game against us end but defensively he was a liability at times. Moving the cost of all the players we’ve after two or three minutes. smoothly on to one of our favourite away fixtures, bought minus the income from Thumping Villa away, we saw Januzai make his debut playing the players we’ve sold, like as a number 10 in the hole. The position that every Chicharito and RvP. LvG and the team delivered the goods with a creative footballer in the World seems to want to It’s sad to see them go but the thumping derby win and a fourth place finish and we play. Still, he scored the winning goal and again, the club moves on as we’ve seen so ended the season with hope in our hearts. defence looked well solid. many times before. In fact, to LvG also got his way with the pre-season tour Superb 4 give you a visual idea of just how being shortened and one game being moved to be far we have moved on — here’s closer to the training camp. Then we were in to the Then came the return to European football a photo that someone sent me media circus of the transfer window with United’s that we’d all been waiting for. Albeit with some last week which shows how the early business looking sound and well ordered. Most nervousness (justified when they took the lead via squad and staff looked just two especially Schneiderlin and Matteo Darmian plus the an own goal deflection from a free kick) in case it years ago with only eight first added bonus of getting Schweinsteiger too! Memphis went wrong. It turned out to be a decent game and team players remaining today. Depay looks like a heck of a good prospect and the it looked as though it was going to be a decent result. I don’t know about you but addition of the widely admired Martial has excited It was turned in to a great result though when I’m particularly excited about new arrivals Memphis singer and all-round house music diva Rowetta, everybody. Especially with LvG very cleverly stating Fellaini headed in the superb cross from Memphis to Depay and Anthony Martial who have the potential whose love of United goes back a long way. publicly last evening that he had bought Martial for give us the two goal cushion we needed to to seriously bolster our attacking threat along with Kevin Christie takes a look at last season with an the next United manager, who he predicted would relax. Matteo Darmian who’s been playing brilliantly at eye on not just the first team but all levels of United’s be Ryan Giggs. Fine by me, that’s for sure. Newcastle came and parked the right back since he signed in July, just prior to the youth squads in his column, The Kids Are Alright. Of course the elephant in the room when talking bus (and very nearly nicked it at the summer tour of the USA. Budding young journalist and GB Wheelchair about United’s Summer transfer dealings was the death) for a point and after destroying Moving on to the content of this magazine you will Rugby player Myles Pearson is back with another DDG fiasco. I have to say Real Madrid have Brugge on their own patch to ensure find a great interview with Matteo… did you know he wonderful interview — this time George Fox who, at got some cheek trying to blame it we wouldn’t be playing in Europe on a made his debut for AC Milan alongside Paulo Maldini the age of eight, suffered a burst blood vessel in the on Ed for it going wrong, when Thursday evening, came the debacle when he was only 17? He’s since gone on to become a brain and miraculously recovered and has gone on to they made their first bid at of Swansea. United were undone by regular Italy international player who featured at last represent Great Britain as a runner. Check out the lunchtime on the final day a combination of wastefulness in year’s World Cup and won Italian player or the year. list of sports that you could get involved with, too. of the transfer window. front of the Swansea goal and the We also have a some great photo features Last but not least, check out page 27 where you’ll This after countless sheer power of Bafetimbi Gomis. including the £850m squad — a look at the transfer find details about this great new badge that’s from articles in Marca (the It’s early days, but so far so rumours that have surrounded United this summer, MUDSA — they’re available in-house newspaper good.