FC United of Manchester believe the community-run club provide a beacon of hope in a world of footballing rapacity and growing foreign riches.

As the transfer window looms, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has gone on record saying that being a top-flight player is not enough of an accolade if they want to make a move to Manchester United.

Having failed to qualify for the Champions League, Manchester United have accepted that this just wasn’t their season.

Manchester United and Arsenal were once the only title contenders of the Premier League – MM look at three of their greatest encounters with Manchester City and Liverpool now by far the country’s two strongest sides.

It was mid-afternoon on Wednesday, May 26, and Cari Rosen was sat at a bar in central Barcelona.

With four English teams making it through to the Champions League quarter finals for the first time in a decade, our new SMDMA podcast takes a look at each of the clubs left in Europe’s leading football competition.

Three local businessmen, Mike Williams, Cris Marzoli and Shaun Peach discuss their new venture-designer clothing brand, IQ. The trio talk about being thrown into the deep end of the fashion industry and give a unique insight into the mindsets of new business owners.

From stadium tours to a few games of poker at the casino, you don’t need reminding how incredible Manchester is. Here’s a guide to a day out in the Northern focal point.

Manchester United and England defender Chris Smalling took a trip to visit his four-legged fans at Dogs Trust Manchester – and ended up meeting his puppy namesake.

Modern sport, and football in particular, looks to have developed an ever increasing reliance on statistics.

MM chat to comedian Justin Moorhouse before his 39-date Northern Joker tour, starting in Salford on January 19, with the Manchester United fan highly likely to be more entertaining than this season’s displays at nearby Old Trafford.