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-Credit:GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images Keylor Navas has opened up about the moment he broke down in tears when his transfer to Manchester United fell apart. But it wasn’t tears of sadness Navas wept on deadline day in the summer of 2015 – but rather tears of joy. The 38-year-old was touted as a sweetener for United … Read more

-Credit:Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images. Danny Welbeck knows what it feels like to stand on both sides of the Arsenal-Manchester United divide. After spending more than a decade on United’s books, the striker swapped Old Trafford for the Emirates Stadium on the final day of the 2014 summer transfer window for a fee in … Read more

A couple have carried out an incredible transformation on a mouldy and overgrown property, and it’s now completely unrecognisable from its former self. And it’s gone up an impressive £191,500 in value. Husband and wife, Jonathan and Katie O’Neill, bought a run-down three-bed terraced house in Timperley, Trafford for £218,500 after it had been sat … Read more

Some remember a now vanished pub fondly as a ‘hive of the community’ full of ‘people and laughter’, while others remember ‘the roughest dodgiest pub’ they had ever had the misfortune to set foot in. The Rocket pub on New Lane, Top-o’th’-Brow in Breightmet, opened in 1961. Like The Flying Shuttle, another notorious Bolton boozer, … Read more

-Credit:BeanymanSports Ruben Amorim has admitted every Manchester United player is “fighting” for their place in the team. Amorim was appointed from Sporting Lisbon in November and there have glimmers of progress on the pitch as the team shifts to his philosophy, despite results continuing to be poor. United delivered an impressive performance against the Premier … Read more

-Credit:Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/Getty Images Liverpool left itself with plenty to do in the Carabao Cup semi-final against Spurs midweek but then made light work of Accrington Stanley in the FA Cup. Arne Slot made eight changes at Anfield, completely leaving out several big names, but saw his side win 4-0. Sixteen-year-old Rio Ngumoha, naturally, took the … Read more