Manchester United have been beaten 2-1 in Monaco by UEFA Cup winners Zenit St Petersburg. Goals from Pavel Pogrebnyak and new £25million signing Danny put Zenit 2-0 up, before a Vidic close range effort gave United hope of a comeback.

Zenit were the better team throughout the 90 minutes, and always looked worthy winners. With more creativity, flare and zest about them, the Russians made United look poor. Read more »

Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed that he will play for Manchester United for at least “one more year”, ending the summer long speculation regarding his future - and more specifically his transfer to Real Madrid.

It seems that United manager Alex Ferguson has utilised his man management skills in persuading the 23-year-old Portuguese winger to remain at Old Trafford for this season.

Ronaldo, who scored 42 goals for United last season, told Portuguese paper Publico;

“Sir Alex Ferguson heard my arguments, I heard his and it was settled that the best thing would be for me to stay. I can confirm that, next season, I will play for Manchester United.” Read more »

Near the end of last season we started a weekend football round up, with a promise that we will continue the weekend summary in the forthcoming season.

Well, we are not ones for breaking promises. But, there is a small difference - every Sunday from this day on, we will summarise the weeks football action for you. Welcome to our first of many ‘CLDsport Weekly Football Round Ups’.

With transfer rumours still hitting the headlines, and supposedly Read more »

The pitch at the Luzhniki Stadium is ‘not ready’ according to English Groundsman Matthew Frost.

Frost, who is in charge of providing the pitch for the Champions League final, said in The Daily Telegraph:

“We’ve done what we can and it is getting better every day, but unfortunately the final is too soon for us. There are dead patches and it looks like dozens of cricket Read more »

Fabio Capello has presented Sir Alex Ferguson with the League Manager’s Association (LMA) Manager of the Year award.

Ferguson wins the award after guiding Manchester United to there 10th Premier League title in 16 seasons. Ferguson has been in charge at United for a stunning 22 years - proof Read more »

Chelsea have completed the signing of Portuguese international right-back Jose Boswingwa for a reported £16.2million fee.

The Porto defender was also a named target of Alex Ferguson’s, but Chelsea have captured Boswingwa. He will join Chelsea after Euro 2008 where he will be appearing for Portugal. Read more »