A pair of British men have spent £50,000 (€56,249) customising their car into a theme of their favourite football club.

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Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar will retire from football at the end of the season.

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OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

Nemanja Vidic insists he never had any intention of quitting Manchester United.

IF you are a gambling man then this is the time to put all your money on blue.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

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OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy. He casts his eye over your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football. You may agree with him or then again you may not. This week France in the qualiers and away in the second let; Pool react with dignity; Throwing toys out of the pram; Pool undone by hot air; Hiddink available for Anfield; Best Premiership for years; Utd v Liverpool difficult to call; Bruce next Utd manager; Fulham victims of their own success; Lamps lack of goals; Wenger was right about obscenities; Defoe’s should have seen red.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy. He casts his eye over all your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football. You may agrewith him or then again you may not. This week the subjects include: Ireland’s performance against the Italians; seeding that helps France and Portugal?; England and Steven Gerard and Wayne Rooney; Where to next for Robinho; Capello’s plodders on the internet; Heskey and Aston Villa and the World Cup; soccer DNA; Maradona miracles; Ferguson and his apology and the awakening of Manchester United?

DAVID GILL has pledged that none of the £80 million (€94m) received from Real Madrid for Cristiano Ronaldo will go towards tackling Manchester United’s spiralling debt.

ALEX FERGUSON has dismissed Manchester City as a major threat to Manchester United’s Premier League title.

Alex Ferguson claims departed hero Cristiano Ronaldo is “streets ahead” of Kaka and Lionel Messi as the best player in the world – but is confident teenage star Federico Macheda will eventually receive the same adulation.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

WITH Liam Mackey away another week ALLAN PROSSER gets more continuous starts

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy after his holiday this week. He casts his eye over your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy. He casts his eye over your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own. Today, and every Tuesday, he will be acting as referee on your opinions on the Premiership. Let him know what you think and he’ll argue the toss with you.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own. Every Tuesday, he will be acting as referee on your opinions on the Premiership. Let him know what you think and he’ll argue the toss with you. We’ll be offering a free sports prize to the star contribution each week.

The Examiner’s Chief Football correspondent Liam Mackey returns to active service next week so it’s back to the benches after a run in the first team for your current mediator Allan Prosser.

Wayne Rooney returned to the Manchester United starting line-up tonight as Alex Ferguson’s men looked to reclaim second spot in the Premier League table with victory over Fulham.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it, and he’s got strong views of his own.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey is off in the land of Goudy and Ronaldinho this week so veteran substitute Allan Prosser is called from the bench to hold the ring while our contributors slug it out.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it and he gives prizes away for the best of them.

MANCHESTER UNITED assistant-boss Carlos Queiroz is confident the Old Trafford outfit have signed two world stars of the future in Nani and Anderson.

You never know what you’re going to get from our angry fans and this week The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey listens to contributors comparing the Arsenal board to P.G. Wodehouse characters, express surprise that the Queen should be a Gooner (when we all thought she was Bayern Munich).

The treatment of footballer supporters in Europe is this weeks hot topic and our soccer correspondent Liam Mackey has got plenty to say about experiences of friendly local constabularies.

There’s nothing like a good Roy Keane controversy to get contributors reaching for their pens and email clients and this week the Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey arbitrates on the latest theory from His Corkness that Liam Miller can’t get a game for Ireland because he hails from the Rebel County.

With soccer entering the business end of the season with the campaign’s first trophy handed out on Sunday Liam Mackey finds our readers still preoccupied with Champions League action and in particular that disturbing series of incidents at the Félix-Bollaert Stadium in Lens last Tuesday and the heavy-handed French police. There’s divided opinions, also, on whether quickly taken free kicks are within the spirit of the game, a warning that Liverpool shouldn’t count their chickens just yet, a view on the justice of the Shelbourne punishment, irritation over RTÉ's on going anti-Mourinho campaign, and the suggestion that Big Sam has magic powers.