Manchester United
Manchester United
Manchester Utd's club nickname is The Red Devils and they play at Old Trafford. You can learn all about Manchester United by looking at our featured club materials.
Video Guide to Manchester United
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Transcript:
Hi there. I’m John Dykes. Welcome to the Premier League’s video guide to Manchester United Football Club. Here we’ll take you behind the scenes at Old Trafford, we’ll give you an insight into the match day experience and also suggest one or two other things to do and see in and around the club.
Manchester United is more than just a football club. It’s a footballing phenomenon. From its humble beginnings as Newton Heath in 1878, Manchester United has grown to become arguably one of the biggest football clubs of all time with a profile that’s recognised all around the world.
Old Trafford has been home to United since 1910. The theatre of dreams is the largest domestic ground in England. Offering a capacity crowd of over 75,000. Sitting in the Trafford borough of the city, the theatre of dreams offers easy access to all the major sights Manchester has to offer.
Only at the Manchester United Museum and tour can you experience United’s story in all its full glory. This award winning experience offers fans an all access visit through the eyes of Manchester United greats and provides you with superb insights into 130 years of United heritage.
No tour would be complete without a visit to the Manchester United club shop. Here you’ll quickly discover, that when it comes to merchandise, no one does it better than United.
As befits a squad full of world-class footballers, United offers their stars one of the finest training complexes in the world. The Trafford Training Centre or simply Carrington as its come to be known, offers all the state-of-the-art facilities needed in the schooling and rehabilitation of the modern day football team.
The Red Devils are the most successful club in the history of English football. Over the years, they have claimed a record 19 league titles, fifteen domestic cups, three European cups and have even been crowned club world champions twice. With United claiming their twelfth Premier League title last season, this famous old club have proven yet again, they’re still the standard bearers of top-flight English football.
If you’d like to experience the thrill of the Barclays Premier league in person, then why not visit the ticket availability section of premierleague.com or visit the club’s website.
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25/09/2024
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The video was really informative and engaging! It highlighted Manchester United’s rich history and gave an exciting look behind the scenes at Old Trafford.
I haven’t been to Manchester, but visiting Old Trafford would be an incredible experience! The idea of walking through the same spaces as football legends, exploring the Manchester United Museum, and feeling the energy of a live match at such a famous stadium sounds unforgettable.
The best thing about going to a Manchester United match would definitely be the atmosphere. With over 75,000 passionate fans, the energy and excitement must be electric! Plus, seeing top-level football at “The Theatre of Dreams” would be a dream come true for any football fan.
25/09/2024 07:34
Chelsea
139
The video was really informative and engaging! It highlighted Manchester United’s rich history and gave an exciting look behind the scenes at Old Trafford.
I haven’t been to Manchester, but visiting Old Trafford would be an incredible experience! The idea of walking through the same spaces as football legends, exploring the Manchester United Museum, and feeling the energy of a live match at such a famous stadium sounds unforgettable.
The best thing about going to a Manchester United match would definitely be the atmosphere. With over 75,000 passionate fans, the energy and excitement must be electric! Plus, seeing top-level football at “The Theatre of Dreams” would be a dream come true for any football fan.
20/02/2024
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no I haven’t been to Manchester but i would like to go to old trafford ..
the best thing in man united and the reason why I love them and suported them it’s SIR ALEX FERGUSON
20/02/2024 17:57
Manchester United
21
no I haven’t been to Manchester but i would like to go to old trafford ..
the best thing in man united and the reason why I love them and suported them it’s SIR ALEX FERGUSON
03/03/2023
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I think that Liverpool will win 5-0 during Sunday's game. Only joking, I think it will be a close game more like 3-2 to Liveprool.
03/03/2023 10:06
Liverpool
759
I think that Liverpool will win 5-0 during Sunday's game. Only joking, I think it will be a close game more like 3-2 to Liveprool.
31/05/2021
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I love MANCHESTER UTD
31/05/2021 19:37
Manchester United
89
I love MANCHESTER UTD
17/03/2021
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I think it was very useful.
I've never been to Manchester, but once I have the opportunity I must visit Old Trafford.
The best thing would probably watching Marcus Rashford.
17/03/2021 13:44
Arsenal
1512
I think it was very useful.
I've never been to Manchester, but once I have the opportunity I must visit Old Trafford.
The best thing would probably watching Marcus Rashford.
18/01/2021
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I think the video was very good because Man United are an average team.
Yes. I have been to the Man United museum.
I think the atmosphere is very good for united fans
18/01/2021 04:28
Chelsea
222
I think the video was very good because Man United are an average team.
Yes. I have been to the Man United museum.
I think the atmosphere is very good for united fans
23/06/2020
points
Ok
23/06/2020 20:24
Newcastle United
1505
Ok
17/05/2020
points
The video is marvellous
I have been there when I was young it's an incredible feeling
Love to go there again soon
Everything is great about this club but the atmosphere at Old Trafford is second to none
The best thing about Manchester United is Sir Alex Ferguson <3
17/05/2020 22:35
Manchester United
6539
The video is marvellous
I have been there when I was young it's an incredible feeling
Love to go there again soon
Everything is great about this club but the atmosphere at Old Trafford is second to none
The best thing about Manchester United is Sir Alex Ferguson <3
28/11/2019
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ok
28/11/2019 02:50
Wolverhampton Wanderers
435
ok
26/08/2019
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ok
26/08/2019 09:02
Manchester City
1734
ok
26/08/2019
points
ok
26/08/2019 09:00
Manchester City
1734
ok
08/10/2018
points
Easy
08/10/2018 18:18
Manchester United
96
Easy
25/03/2018
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I've never been to mancgester but I'd love to. Maybe next season.
25/03/2018 14:29
Newcastle United
1900
I've never been to mancgester but I'd love to. Maybe next season.
10/12/2017
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The video give me a lot of information and I have never been to Manchester. If I have a chance, I would like to go to Old Trafford. To watch playing against Manchester vs Chelsea is the best thing I think.
10/12/2017 14:09
Manchester United
41
The video give me a lot of information and I have never been to Manchester. If I have a chance, I would like to go to Old Trafford. To watch playing against Manchester vs Chelsea is the best thing I think.
23/06/2016
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I would love to go to Old Trafford
23/06/2016 05:28
Manchester United
4779
I would love to go to Old Trafford
23/06/2016
points
I have never been to Manchester before
23/06/2016 05:23
Manchester United
4779
I have never been to Manchester before
23/06/2016
points
Great video
23/06/2016 05:22
Manchester United
4779
Great video
28/03/2016
points
The fans.
28/03/2016 20:21
Liverpool
3705
The fans.
28/03/2016
points
No,Yes.
28/03/2016 20:20
Liverpool
3705
No,Yes.
28/03/2016
points
It is good.
28/03/2016 20:20
Liverpool
3705
It is good.
13/02/2016
points
It is very best
13/02/2016 14:42
Leicester City
31
It is very best
28/11/2015
points
Never been to Manchester but I would go to Old Trafford
To watch playing against Liverpool would be the best reason
28/11/2015 19:11
Arsenal
128
Never been to Manchester but I would go to Old Trafford
To watch playing against Liverpool would be the best reason
14/11/2015
points
Awesome episode
14/11/2015 18:23
Arsenal
2320
Awesome episode
29/10/2015
points
Glory glory Man.Utd... I still remember their final vs Bayen Munich. Sheringham and Solskjaer!
29/10/2015 16:28
Arsenal
3557
Glory glory Man.Utd... I still remember their final vs Bayen Munich. Sheringham and Solskjaer!
28/11/2015
points
Oohh I remember that match too
28/11/2015 14:59
Arsenal
2320
Oohh I remember that match too
28/08/2015
points
it's a very good video show me things I didn't know
yes. off course I want to go to Manchester and absolutely to old trafford the theater of dreams .
watch my favorite team and his home old Trafford and his gallery of champions .
28/08/2015 18:58
Manchester United
0
it's a very good video show me things I didn't know
yes. off course I want to go to Manchester and absolutely to old trafford the theater of dreams .
watch my favorite team and his home old Trafford and his gallery of champions .
27/12/2014
points
It's a good video, very complete about Manchester United Club characteristics like their past, their stadium and their titles. I will go someday and I'll take many pictures at stadium and the museum, maybe in a match with Chelsea. It's a big stadium surely going to pretty see their fans and all their feelings before the game.
27/12/2014 20:58
Chelsea
38
It's a good video, very complete about Manchester United Club characteristics like their past, their stadium and their titles. I will go someday and I'll take many pictures at stadium and the museum, maybe in a match with Chelsea. It's a big stadium surely going to pretty see their fans and all their feelings before the game.
27/12/2014
points
Hi Karodclr, Thanks for your comments. What do you think would be the best thing about going to Old Trafford? Seeing Chelsea win? Rich - The Premier Skills English Team
27/12/2014 22:22
Liverpool
594
Hi Karodclr, Thanks for your comments. What do you think would be the best thing about going to Old Trafford? Seeing Chelsea win? Rich - The Premier Skills English Team
05/01/2015
points
Lol, that could be a plus! But I think to visit the museum will be superb!
05/01/2015 21:47
Chelsea
38
Lol, that could be a plus! But I think to visit the museum will be superb!
13/09/2014
points
great video with high quantity of new words for me
one of my dreams to come to England
13/09/2014 12:22
Manchester United
1
great video with high quantity of new words for me
one of my dreams to come to England
09/07/2014
points
Dear friends, please check the video in the learning activity #2 "Match the numbers to the statement" (Man Utd in numbers). IMHO there is a mistake. The video about Arsenal not Manchester United...
09/07/2014 00:23
Manchester City
9
Dear friends, please check the video in the learning activity #2 "Match the numbers to the statement" (Man Utd in numbers). IMHO there is a mistake. The video about Arsenal not Manchester United...
09/07/2014
points
Hi sirandrew, Thanks for spotting this and telling us about it. The video is about Man Utd now :)
09/07/2014 10:12
Liverpool
594
Hi sirandrew, Thanks for spotting this and telling us about it. The video is about Man Utd now :)
14/02/2013
points
The Red Devils is the most popular English football team in Brazil.
14/02/2013 21:53
0
The Red Devils is the most popular English football team in Brazil.
13/05/2012
points
Hey, Jack!
What happens? The Premier Skills logo has missed from the Learn English home page!
See you soon,
Sergio
13/05/2012 12:39
0
Hey, Jack!
What happens? The Premier Skills logo has missed from the Learn English home page!
See you soon,
Sergio
11/05/2012
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Dear Jack,
I would like to ask you if... So, reading i.e. this sentence "you would have to slip rather different spanners into works to bounce people out" (a novel) I know that "to bounce out" could be a phrasal verb, but what about... "to slip... spanners into works"? Is it maybe an idiomatic expression? There's a site where one can find easily expressions like that?
Thank you very much,
Sergio
P.S. Poor MUN... I'm afraid MCI is going to win...
11/05/2012 08:15
0
Dear Jack,
I would like to ask you if... So, reading i.e. this sentence "you would have to slip rather different spanners into works to bounce people out" (a novel) I know that "to bounce out" could be a phrasal verb, but what about... "to slip... spanners into works"? Is it maybe an idiomatic expression? There's a site where one can find easily expressions like that?
Thank you very much,
Sergio
P.S. Poor MUN... I'm afraid MCI is going to win...
14/05/2012
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Hi Sergio
'To put a spanner into the works' is a fun idiomatic phrase. If you imagine a large machine with cogs and levers... and then you imagine what would happen if you dropped a large metal tool like a spanner into the machine... that would literally be putting a spanner into the works. So the idiomatic meaning = to introduce an element that stops the system working.
To bounce someone out, is far less common - it's a friendlier version of kick someone out, meaning remove someone from a place or position.
I'm afraid I don't know of a specific site for idioms, but if you type a phrase into google in quotation marks, and the word define, you usually get a decent result.
Yes - Poor MUN, but what a match! What a season! Fantastic for the Premier League. I already can't wait for next season.
Jack
14/05/2012 11:38
0
Hi Sergio
'To put a spanner into the works' is a fun idiomatic phrase. If you imagine a large machine with cogs and levers... and then you imagine what would happen if you dropped a large metal tool like a spanner into the machine... that would literally be putting a spanner into the works. So the idiomatic meaning = to introduce an element that stops the system working.
To bounce someone out, is far less common - it's a friendlier version of kick someone out, meaning remove someone from a place or position.
I'm afraid I don't know of a specific site for idioms, but if you type a phrase into google in quotation marks, and the word define, you usually get a decent result.
Yes - Poor MUN, but what a match! What a season! Fantastic for the Premier League. I already can't wait for next season.
Jack
14/05/2012
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Dear Jack,
as usual you're really kind, clear and exhaustive.
I've just followed your tip with this sentence I read on Newsweek:
"Then there is the 800-pound gorilla in the room..." and I got what
it means... Er, I suppose so!
Thanks a lot,
Sergio
P.S. I'm much curious to know what James hopes about
Chelsea-Bayern, considered if Chelsea wan, the Spurs would be out
from Champions League next year! (What a 2nd conditional!!!)
14/05/2012 14:09
0
Dear Jack,
as usual you're really kind, clear and exhaustive.
I've just followed your tip with this sentence I read on Newsweek:
"Then there is the 800-pound gorilla in the room..." and I got what
it means... Er, I suppose so!
Thanks a lot,
Sergio
P.S. I'm much curious to know what James hopes about
Chelsea-Bayern, considered if Chelsea wan, the Spurs would be out
from Champions League next year! (What a 2nd conditional!!!)
15/05/2012
points
Well, I think as you have followed my predictions that I was totally and completely correct. I saw that final 5 minutes play out in my mind and predicted it IDIOM: I hit the nail on the head with that one. Its just that jack disagreed with my 'outrageous' prediction and so didnt put it on the site :)
As per your question:
Chelsea will lose, Spurs will go into the Champion's league and win the tournament next season, or , Chelse will win and we will be 'left for dust'. In reality even though the final is in Germany and Barern will have home advantage and home support I think that it will be a 'do or die' game for Chelsea and many of their ageing stars will see it as their last 'swansong' at Chelsea before moving on to 'greener pastures' and so I will have to go for a Chelsea win and see Spurs playing in the second tier of European footy again :(
But, football is football, if that wasn't the case it wouldnt be the game that it is!!!
good luck with understanding the meaning of the idioms ive included and lets see how the final turns out, 3 days to go!!!
15/05/2012 09:47
0
Well, I think as you have followed my predictions that I was totally and completely correct. I saw that final 5 minutes play out in my mind and predicted it IDIOM: I hit the nail on the head with that one. Its just that jack disagreed with my 'outrageous' prediction and so didnt put it on the site :)
As per your question:
Chelsea will lose, Spurs will go into the Champion's league and win the tournament next season, or , Chelse will win and we will be 'left for dust'. In reality even though the final is in Germany and Barern will have home advantage and home support I think that it will be a 'do or die' game for Chelsea and many of their ageing stars will see it as their last 'swansong' at Chelsea before moving on to 'greener pastures' and so I will have to go for a Chelsea win and see Spurs playing in the second tier of European footy again :(
But, football is football, if that wasn't the case it wouldnt be the game that it is!!!
good luck with understanding the meaning of the idioms ive included and lets see how the final turns out, 3 days to go!!!
09/05/2012
points
If you have any questions about Manchester United or English or anything you have seen here, please feel free to leave a comment and ask them here. Thanks
Jack
The Premier Skills English Team
09/05/2012 05:15
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If you have any questions about Manchester United or English or anything you have seen here, please feel free to leave a comment and ask them here. Thanks
Jack
The Premier Skills English Team