For once, in his post-match comments on Saturday, José didn’t dissemble, and he spoke for what was in all our hearts. We all knew we’d robbed the Cherries blind - but we felt it was the cosmic karmic balancing for our own last-gasp mugging at Stamford Bridge two weeks back. Somewhere in the back of mind chirped the old cliché “these things even out over a season”.

It’s not something I usually hasten to admit but my heart isn’t entirely hardened to Everton Football Club — and I know I’m not the only Manc Red who feels like that.

There have been some legendary United ‘goons’ at Wembley down the years. Moments when all bodily and mental control flies out of the window, and gruff grown men can be seen kissing each other on the lips, ululating like possessed animals, and falling over each other into tangled heaps of blood and joy.

The Glazer family has been accused of draining £1 billion (€1.39 billion) from Manchester United and wrecking the club’s chances of dominating Europe.

Manchester United: Our Angel ensures Christmas comes early

ONLY 15 months after they won the league and three years after they reached the Champions League final for the third time in four years, it is already hard to fathom a way back for Manchester United after their humbling 4-0 defeat to League One MK Dons.

Louis van Gaal refused to comment on Danny Welbeck’s future as speculation mounts the England striker is set to leave Manchester United.

The Glazer family will make around $150m (€112m) by selling part of its stake in Manchester United although the deal will leave the Americans firmly in control of the English soccer club.

Lately, I notice quite the competition between betting outlets in the advertisements on television.

Manchester United owner Malcolm Glazer has died, his NFL franchise the Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced last night.

It was threatening enough in Charleville on Saturday, but the rain held off, more or less, and Cork-Limerick played out their hurling challenge in that kind of eerie twilight you sometimes get on a late spring evening.

Former Manchester United coach Rene Meulensteen is open to a return to Old Trafford and has claimed David Moyes failed at the club because he ignored advice from the Dutchman.

Manchester United have begun their hunt for a successor to David Moyes in earnest, drawing up a shortlist and sending out feelers to potential candidates.

Manchester United’s mountainous debt pile and wage bill meant its owners could ill afford to give David Moyes the same amount of time to succeed as his predecessor Alex Ferguson, it was claimed today.

The contentious ‘Chosen One’ banner will remain on display at Old Trafford despite a growing clamour for it to be removed in the wake of Manchester United’s increasingly woeful season under David Moyes.

Rashard Mendenhall kind of wanted to disappear, he told the world this past Sunday.

KEITH ANDREWS: Time to hold my hands up: I wrote a couple of months back that I felt Man United would turn things around and challenge for the title but I have been proven very wrong.

Much has been made about Jose Mourinho’s penchant for functional football during — and in the time between — his two spells at Chelsea but any lack of ambition to be found at Stamford Bridge, where they face Manchester United on Sunday, is far more endemic among the visiting ranks.

The NFL play-off picture was completed on Sunday with a dramatic final series of regular season games delivering big results for the Green Bay Packers, the Philadelphia Eagles and the San Diego Chargers.

Another week, another media “sensation” that everyone is talking about.

Illinois car parts baron Shahid Khan will find plenty of familiar faces and accents when he visits English soccer stadiums this year after spending an estimated $300 million to buy Fulham.

News of Alex Ferguson’s retirement caused an initial dip in Manchester United’s share price on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, but by the close of trading it had bounced back.

A reduction in broadcast revenue for Manchester United pushed underlying core earnings 15% lower at the Premier League soccer club in the quarter to the end of September.

Manchester United’s owners will not sell the club for “many, many years” despite ongoing interest, according to vice-chairman Ed Woodward.

Manchester United said it expected revenue to grow in the current financial year after paying the price of a rare barren season on the field in 2011/12.

Manchester United commercial director Richard Arnold claims the club are only starting to scratch the surface of the mammoth global opportunities available to them.

Billionaire money manager George Soros reported a nearly 2% stake in Manchester United Plc in one of the first revelations of investors in the British soccer club’s controversial initial public offering earlier this month.

Chief executive David Gill believes Manchester United will continue to grow despite a disappointing share price when the club was listed on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday.

The American owners of Manchester United pocketed around €95m today as shares in the football club were publicly traded for the first time in seven years.

Manchester United’s owners stand to make about three times their investment in the club if it successfully goes public.

A group of Manchester United fans accused the American Glazer family of milking the English Premier League soccer team for cash after IPO terms revealed that they planned to take half of the proceeds of its flotation.

A leading Manchester United fans group has launched a stinging attack on the Glazer family’s plans to float part of the club on the New York Stock Exchange.

Manchester United's owners suffered a fresh wave of criticism last night after indicating only half the proceeds of their planned IPO will be used to reduce the club's massive debt.

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has defended his club’s owners as well as his transfer policy.

Manchester United’s proposed flotation on the New York Stock Exchange could be a precursor to the club’s eventual sale, according to a financial expert.

Manchester United’s proposed flotation on the New York Stock Exchange could be a precursor to the club’s eventual sale, according to a financial expert.

Manchester United have applied to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the hope of raising $100m (€80,) from selling shares in the club.

The euphoria lasted just 30 seconds.

IF we were in any doubt as to where United’s priorities lie during the excruciating boredom of Saturday’s game, then Fergie settled it in his post-match interviews.

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The Manchester United Supporters Trust have repeated their call for the Glazer family to use the proceeds from their intended Singapore Stock Market flotation to wipe away the club’s massive debt.

ENGLISH Premier League soccer champions Manchester United have filed a preliminary application with the Singapore Exchange for a planned listing, a source with direct knowledge of the deal said yesterday.