The Latics boss was asked if he would consider playing for Gibraltar, who is not yet a full member of FIFA, against the World Cup winners

Ex-City player Jerome Boateng scored a last-minute winner for the German champions in the opening Champions League group game despite Hart’s stellar performance where he repelled everything that came his way until the deflected strike.

Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs and Phil Neville have demanded that changes be made at youth level for the benefit of both clubs and the national side.

A World War One army officer who carried on fighting the Germans despite losing BOTH legs as he led his troops into battle has finally been honoured with a military parade in his home village near Altrincham – 100 years on from his death.

After yet another disappointing, disheartening and disillusioned World Cup campaign, the international frendlies are back – and so could be the empty seats of Wembley Stadium.

Manchester United are set to add to their summer signings after agreed a deal with German international star Mats Hummels.

Manchester United turned disabled fans away from Old Trafford, claims Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.

Samir Nasri celebrated striking a new five-year deal at Manchester City with a golf-themed prank on a club journalist.

The first semi-final of 2014 was expected to be close, only for Germany to demolish the Neymar-less hosts – in the blizzard of social media reaction, Mancunians were not shy in making their feelings known

A 410 million-year-old arachnid has been brought into the 21st century in a new University of Manchester video.

Salford-born Williams is the latest in a line of top-level British athletes to move abroad and lap up the culture in a country that lives and breathes the sport they toil away at for a career.