Manchester United F.C.
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Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stretford, Greater Manchester. The club currently plays in the Premier League, of which it was a founding member in 1992, and has competed in the UEFA Champions League every year since the 1996-97 season. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name after coming close to bankruptcy in 1902, ten years after joining The Football League and six years before its first league title. In 1909, the club moved to its current home, Old Trafford, now a UEFA five-star rated stadium and the third-largest football ground in the United Kingdom.In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United was the first English football club to win the European Cup, just 10 years after the Munich air disaster that claimed the lives of eight of its players.
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Times 'duped' into printing hoax Qatar Dream Football League story
The Times has admitted it was duped into publishing a hoax exclusive about plans for a Qatar-based Dream Football League, offering huge financial incentives to tempt Manchester United and other top Premier League sides to join, in an episode it described as a "journalistic nightmare".
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Is the Times's remarkable football scoop an own goal?
His byline is on a story, billed as an exclusive, that is published across three pages of his paper today. But is it quite as it seems?.
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Sources: GM Poised to Confirm Split with Goodby
A General Motors’ announcement about the end of Goodby Silverstein & Partners’ involvement in Chevrolet’s Commonwealth partnership with McCann Erickson could come as early as Wednesday, sources said.
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Dancing on Ice final pulls in 6.9m viewers
Final of ITV's celebrity skating show – won by Beth Tweddle – took a 25% audience share on Sunday night.
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Manchester United v Real Madrid scores with nearly 10m: TV ratings – 5 March
Victory for Real Madrid was most-watched Champions League match on ITV since 2008 final between Chelsea and Man United.
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Maynineteen expands team to deliver new business deals for 2013
Manchester based, specialist shopping centre events and entertainment company, Maynineteen, has recruited two new account managers, Rosie Tams and Mikie Lockwood to its team in order to fulfil its new business commitments throughout 2013. Rosie Tams, Account Manager: Rosie joins the team having spent 6 years freelancing in corporate events for global brands such as [.
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Review: BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, in vision
Newsbeat is a highly-regarded news show that airs on the BBC's young hit music station BBC Radio 1. For some reason today they ended up broadcasting it in video as well as audio, through the BBC Radio 1 website. I'm not keen on "visualising radio". Partly, it's because I see it as fulfilling a seemingly unstoppable desire for BBC Radio staff to stop working in radio but instead, to work on a cheap-looking television channel.
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Chinese New Year of the Snake hisses at social media
It’s that time of the year again when a third of the world’s population celebrates the biggest single event of the year, Chinese New Year (CNY) or Lunar New Year as it’s often called.
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Eric Cantona tackles Kronenbourg ad
Former Manchester United player stars in campaign suggesting hop farmers are treated like footballers in Alsace.
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Agency of the Year: Carat
A year ago, it would have been a bit of a stretch to declare Carat a U. S. media-buying powerhouse. But after the year Carat has just enjoyed, there’s no denying the Eurocentric shop has become a major player.
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