On the 15th April 1989 tens of thousands of football supporters travelled to Hillsborough, Sheffield, to watch their teams in the FA Cup semi final involving Nottingham Forest and Liverpool.

A win in Moscow puts us in charge of the group and looking certain to qualify for the knockout  stages. Let’s see how the players rated.

I know we’ve all been busy laughing at that shambles of a football club just down the East Lancs road, but it’s back to business for us tonight in the Champions League as we face CSKA Moscow, and we have problems of our own.

Rafa Benitez told Sky Sports yesterday that “If you repeat a lie a lot of times, it becomes the truth.” Well that’s not exactly true. he’s been peddling the same tired old line of poverty for the last five years but even the owners of Liverpool have admitted they’ve spent more than United.

A 2-1 home win against Bolton sees us top the table this evening, after both Liverpool and Chelsea were beaten on their travels. How did the players rate?

Another international fixture brings about another week of boredom for most of us who just want to get back to watching United instead of Ingerlund. But as frustrating as the international schedule is, it’s always nice to hear of our players doing well for their countries.

England captain John Terry has branded Wayne Rooney the ‘heartbeat’ of the current England team, following his goalscoring heroics during the successful World Cup qualifying campaign.

See highlights of the reserves match between Manchester United and Oldham Athletic, including the long awaited debut of Gabriel Obertan.

Following my recent article on ex Premiership referee Jeff Winter, I sent him an email to see if he’d like to comment on it, and to my surprise he actually replied on Sporting Preview. Below you can see my email, followed by Jeff’s reply.

As we all know, there are a lot of ABU’s in the media and none of them are afraid to air their biased, bitter opinions. But one particular article caught my eye this week by including quotes from ex ref Jeff Winter.