From the Back Pages: 9/29/2010

I'm still waiting on the Match Pack that ManUtd.com puts out, I'll add it in when I get up in the morning. 

VALENCIA AND SQUAD NEWS:

• Previews! ( ManUtd.com | Manchester Evening News ( Mathieson's Valencia Profile ) | BBC | ESPN | Telegraph )
• Michael Carrick travels to Valencia with the team, but Gary Neville and Paul Scholes didn't ( Manchester Evening News | Sky | ESPN | FSC | Sun | Telegraph | Daily Mail )
  
• Darren Fletcher must maintain possession and can't afford to take Valencia lightly ( ManUtd.com | Sky )
• Wes Brown says United have the quality to beat Valencia ( ManUtd.com )
• Edwin van der Sar talked about the game as well ( UEFA )
• Ryan Giggs expects a raucous crowd in Valencia ( ManUtd.com )
• I could probably put these links under the injury report, but Rio Ferdinand supposedly stood most of the 2 hour flight to Spain and always has a specially built "booster seat" for him to sit on that forces him to have good posture and relax the tension in his back. The Sun also includes their "likely lineup"  ( Sun )



LIKELY LINE-UP - United: Van der Sar, O'Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Nani, Fletcher, Gibson, Anderson, Park, Berbatov.

• ManUtd.com: Nick Coppack: Today in Valencia
  
• Darron Gibson wants to make the first team ( Sky )
• The United Religion: Back To The Basics, Please
  

SIR ALEX:

• say it would be foolish not to respect Valencia's home record over the years ( ManUtd.com )
• Here is the headline from the Mirror: "Fergie loses patience with reporters as Rooney ruled out until mid-October" It's trash like this that causes me to rarely post Mirror links any more:
  

  "It's an ankle injury," said Fergie. "What do you want me to say? Do you want me to describe every ligament? Christ.

  I don't really consider that "losing patience" though I suppose the Mirror reporter could have been needling him for more specifics.  Even so, this is the only story I saw with headline anything like this.

MORE LINKS AFTER THE JUMP!

TRANSFER NEWS/RUMORS:

• Conor Devlin headed to League One side Hartlepool on a one month loan ( Sky )
• An update on how United loanees are faring ( ManUtd.com )
• David de Gea says he's focused on Atletico Madrid...( Sky | Daily Mail )
  
• ...not reports that Manchester United are interested ( Manchester Evening News )

• Wow, was I psychic or something? Rooney gone for 2-3 weeks.... ( ManUtd.com | Manchester Evening News | Sky | BBC | ESPN | FSC | Telegraph | Sun | Daily Mail | Guardian )
• The Daily Mail: Rooney's absence against Valencia could be a blessing
  
• Manchester Evening News: James Robson: Rooney should follow Scholes' lead
• Manchester Evening News: David Sadler column

• SB Nation: Spencer Hall reviews Qatar's World Cup Stadiums
  
• We Ain't Got No History (Chelsea): Chelsea 2-0 Maresille: Game Recap
• The Short Fuse (Arsenal): Partizan 1-3 Arsenal: Match report

• England to pull out of running for 2022 World Cup if the U.S. pulls out of 2018. ( Sky | FSC )

AND FINALLY: I don't know if this link will work, but UEFA has been picking out a game from every year of the Champion's League and making a video about it. Their latest video has the headline "Blomqvist takes centre stage as IFK shock United"  I hope the link works, it didn't work right out of my reader, so I went and found it.