Manchester United could be facing a fresh backlash tonight from their supporters as it was revealed that two thirds of fans are considering not renewing their season tickets next season.

Arsène Wenger said on Tuesday night that he wanted to be drawn against Manchester United or Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-finals after Arsenal became the first English team to reach this season’s last eight.

Sir Alex Ferguson said on Tuesday that he is concerned about the threat of espionage after the revelation that conversations between England players and coaches were secretly recorded and offered for sale.

Sir Alex Ferguson was described as a “scary man” by David Beckham on Tuesday. It would be an exaggeration to suggest the Manchester United manager was, in turn, fearful of what Beckham might produce for AC Milan at Old Trafford on Wednesday evening, but the Scot is too long in the tooth to dismiss out of hand the prospect of...

David Beckham has described Sir Alex Ferguson as a "scary man" as he prepares to return to Old Trafford for the first time since he left Manchester United in controversial circumstances 6½ years ago.

Wayne Rooney has been passed fit to face AC Milan in the Champions League tomorrow night after training with his Manchester United team-mates this morning.

Sir Alex Ferguson will sit down for a Champions League press conference today and wish he was anywhere else. Cleaning Mike Riley’s car, polishing Arsène Wenger’s boots anything but talk about David Beckham.

Rio Ferdinand has claimed that he never feared for his World Cup place as he pronounced himself fit to face AC Milan on Wednesday.

Sir Alex Ferguson distanced himself yesterday from the Red Knights’ proposed bid for Manchester United, angrily rejecting allegations that he had formally backed their takeover campaign.

WAYNE ROONEY of Manchester United and Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas are doubtful for their clubs' Champions League second-leg ties this week. Rooney, who aggravated a knee injury while playing twice in four days on Wembley’s heavy turf last week, was not in the squad for last night’s game at Wolverhampton.

A late goal from Paul Scholes sent Manchester United three points clear at the top of the Barclays Premier League.

My, how this recession is biting. I’ve just read that some chaps in the City are so poor that they can barely afford to raise £1.5 billion for Manchester United.

Sir Alex Ferguson has insisted that there is “no chance” of the Red Knights persuading Manchester United supporters to boycott games in their battle to wrest control of the club from the Glazer family.

Sir Alex Ferguson has ordered Wayne Rooney to start protecting his precious talent after telling the striker that he has only himself to blame for aggravating an injury.

Michael Owen laughed off suggestions that he was cursed on Sunday after he had limped off the Wembley turf during the Carling Cup final. The striker had cause to reassess his verdict yesterday when it emerged that a ruptured hamstring has ruled him out for the rest of the season and the World Cup.

Sir Alex Ferguson has condemned the condition of the Wembley pitch after Michael Owen was ruled out for the season and Wayne Rooney returned from international duty feeling drained.

Michael Owen has been ruled out for the remainder of the season, ending his faint hopes of playing in this summer's World Cup.

Sixty super-rich investors have pledged up to £1.5 billion in their bid to seize control of Manchester United, The Times can reveal.

So is the madness over, or has it just begun? Has the wobble of the past few weeks, the Bridge-Terry circus, the Ashley Cole crisis, the Rio Ferdinand concerns, been just a blip or does it foretell calamity in South Africa this summer?

David Gill, the Manchester United chief executive, has dismissed the viability of the Red Knights’ plan to buy the club and launched a scathing personal attack on the credibility of the financier fronting their bid.

David Gill, the Manchester United chief executive, has backed the Glazer family to resist any attempt to buy the club.

Sir Alex Ferguson is one of a group of leading Premier League managers who have been offering assistance and support to the United States before their opening World Cup finals fixture against England.

Speculators have begun to buy bonds in Manchester United in a gamble that the Red Knights will be able to launch an offer to buy the club from the Glazer family.

The Manchester United supporters group set up to buy a stake in the club has pledged its support to the cabal of businessmen hoping to buy out the Glazer family.

Manchester United may pride themselves on being the "biggest club in the world" but their financial might has once again been overshadowed by the two biggest clubs in Spain, according to the latest annual Football Money League.

One hundred days to go. One hundred days for Fabio Capello to wake up in fear of the scandal that will subvert England’s World Cup campaign.

Jim O’Neill, a close friend of Sir Alex Ferguson, emerged last night as a key player among the Red Knights, who hope to wrest Manchester United from the clutches of the Glazer family.

Michael Owen has admitted that he would rather be a bit-part player at Manchester United, challenging for football’s biggest prizes, than a first-team regular at a less successful club.

Wayne Rooney has urged England fans to give John Terry their full support during Wednesday’s friendly against Egypt at Wembley.

A group of leading City financiers have held talks with a view to wresting control of Manchester United from the Glazer family, the current owners of the club.

If Fabio Capello remained indifferent to the plight of Michael Owen yesterday, he will have been the only one.

Martin O’Neill launched a scathing attack on Phil Dowd last night, effectively accusing the referee of costing his team the Carling Cup.

Wayne Rooney came off the substitutes’ bench to head his 28th goal of the season and retain the Carling Cup for Manchester United.

FOR all their travails when playing the teams they must measure themselves against, Arsenal’s ability to pick off the also-rans means they have not lost to anyone other than Chelsea and Manchester United since they stumbled at Sunderland in November. With the scores level at 90 minutes, they still took three points from Stoke, firstly when Robert Huth foolishly handled...

Edwin van der Sar has signed a one-year contract extension with Manchester United. The deal means the Dutchman, 39, is tied to the club until the end of the 2010-11 season.

Fears may be growing over Rio Ferdinand’s suspect fitness, but Sir Alex Ferguson does not believe that the defender’s injury problems will force him to scale back his international commitments.

Anderson, the Manchester United midfielder, has been ruled out for the rest of the season after rupturing his cruciate ligament during Tuesday's 3-0 win over West Ham United.

There have been some frank admissions this week that South Africa would not be ready if the World Cup finals were to start tomorrow, but if Fabio Capello were asked the same question about England, concerns over Rio Ferdinand and uncertainty over the fallout from the John Terry affair would force him to apply a similarly alarmist assessment.

Wayne Rooney is sweeping all before him at Manchester United, with 19 goals in his past 19 appearances in all competitions, and his form has not gone unnoticed by the men whose teams will attempt to stop the England forward performing on the World Cup finals stage this summer.

As Sir Alex Ferguson surveyed his walking wounded before the Carling Cup final with Aston Villa, the Manchester United manager succumbed to asking for favours from Manchester City in his attempt to retain the Barclays Premier League title.

Rio Ferdinand has suffered another injury setback that rules him out of the Carling Cup final on Sunday and throws England’s World Cup preparations into further disarray.

“King Midas” was how Gianfranco Zola eloquently referred to Wayne Rooney last night after the Manchester United striker’s latest exhibition of goalscoring brilliance. “Everything he touches turns to gold, ” the West Ham United manager cooed, which is a good job because it is not only the hopes of his club that Rooney carries on those broad shoulders.

Few stand up to Sir Alex Ferguson and escape unscathed. Crossing swords with Sam Allardyce can be scary, too. Only the exceptionally brave or extremely foolhardy take on two of the biggest personalities the game can offer.

Michael Owen could be forgiven for feeling the occasional pang of jealousy towards Wayne Rooney, but the one-time golden boy of English football had nothing but praise last night for the “local scally made good” and the present bearer of that particular crown.

Team news and squad sheets for the midweek games will appear below as soon as the managers have posted them around the country. In the meantime, watch our video previews above.

Michael Owen says he has all but given up hope of being involved in this summer's World Cup finals.

SIR ALEX FERGUSON sent out a message to rival teams and to Wayne Rooney himself last night when he said that his in-form striker had yet to “get to the levels of [Ole Gunnar] Solskjaer and Andy Cole and [Ruud] Van Nistelrooy. If he got to that level, he’d be the best in the world”.

Chelsea continued their 100 per cent Premier League record against Wolves, with a 2-0 victory at Molineux. Didier Drogba's double enabled Chelsea to move four points clear of Manchester United at the top of the Barclays Premier League.

David Moyes, the Everton manager, has revealed how a phone call from an apologetic Wayne Rooney helped to convince him that his one-time protégé had reached the level of maturity required of a world-class performer.

Nemanja Vidic insists he is as committed as ever to Manchester United, despite mounting speculation that he will leave Old Trafford in the summer.

Wolverhampton Wanderers have incurred the wrath of the Premier League for fielding an understrength side against Manchester United last December.

One Manchester United striker continues to go from strength to strength, but another must be wondering in which direction his Old Trafford career is headed.

There has always been something magnificently ordinary about Wayne Rooney. There are the trappings of superstardom, but none of the affectations. There is the flair of the prima donna, but none of the ego. There is confidence, but never arrogance.

David Beckham has described Wayne Rooney as one of the greatest goalscorers in the world as Manchester United came from behind to secure a memorable 3-2 victory over AC Milan at San Siro last night.

They pride themselves on extending a player’s career at AC Milan’s famous laboratory but we know now that they cannot perform anti-ageing miracles. And so a team that began at a sprint slowed to a gasping stagger in the second half last night.

Wayne Rooney tore into his team-mates last night after upstaging David Beckham as Manchester United came from behind to secure a memorable 3-2 victory over AC Milan at a spellbound San Siro.

There have been times when it has riled Sir Alex Ferguson to see Wayne Rooney receive the kind of adulation that turned David Beckham into a national treasure, but not this morning. Not after a night when Rooney led the fightback that turned a chastening evening at San Siro into one of exuberant celebration for Manchester United.

Wayne Rooney was exploited at the start of his career by agents who tied him in to a contract so long it spanned the average working life of a professional player, a court was told on Tuesday.

David Beckham has been named in the starting line-up for AC Milan in the Champions League and will face Manchester United for the first time since he left Old Trafford seven years ago.

Sir Alex Ferguson’s mounting frustration with Nemanja Vidic was laid bare yesterday when the Manchester United manager struggled to conceal his dismay at the defender’s reluctance to return to action.