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Reports say new manager Louis van Gaal will be given a £200m transfer war chest to spend to improve on last season’s dismal seventh place finish.

Januzaj, 19, made his Belgium debut on Monday as the Brazil dark horses swept aside Luxembourg 5-1 to warm up nicely for their first World Cup outing since 2002.

Soccer Aid co-creator Williams to grace Old Trafford on June 8 for England v Rest of the World.

Close friends and contemporaries of George Best have been remembering the Manchester United legend ahead of what would have been his 68th Birthday this month.

2008 Champions League winner Van der Sar feels the England keeper has overcome his dodgy spell and is ready to challenge the world’s best shot stoppers.

Toure was not impressed by the small celebrations that the club produced including presenting him with a cake for this 31st birthday during the flight to Abu Dhabi.

United turned to Netherlands manager Van Gaal, who guided Ajax to a Champions League triumph over AC Milan in 1995, this week having sacked Moyes in April.

His Pakistani-American wife, Faryal Makhdoom, gave birth to a baby girl in the early hours of this morning

Vincent, who played for Lancashire in 2008, stands accused of 14 offences across two matches in 2011 while his former Sussex teammate, Naved Arif, is charged with six by the ECB.

A book based on interviews with female footballers and cricketers from the past 20 years has been compiled by Dr Carrie Dunn, Lecturer in Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University.

The Manchester match-up shows Nicky Butt, brothers Phil and Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes donning their hi-vis jackets to go steel toe-to-toe with the workmen on top of the high-rise Hotel Football near Old Trafford.