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Manchester United is an English soccer team, they currently play in the Premier League and have won a large number of trophies both in the League and Europe. 

They are one of the most supported clubs in England and around the whole world with sales of the Manchester United football shirt beating sales of other English and European clubs.

Supporters of the Red Devils come from all over the world, estimates of the clubs total number of supporters range between 75 and 333 million. The team's home ground Old Trafford has a capacity of 75,957, all seats are often sold out giving them the highest attendance in the Premier League.

Adults and children support this top team with the Manchester United boys home football shirt being a best seller for online retailer Soccer Box.

Since 1902 when the club was renamed Manchester United following its initial period being known as Newton Heath the traditional home colours have been red and black.

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It wasn't so long ago that Manchester United's Wayne Rooney apparently wanted to 'get away' from the Manchester United football club. However this was while working under Sir Alex Ferguson, there was quite an open-aired bust up between the two at the end of the season because Rooney was said to have requested a transfer away from United. Now that new manager David Moyes has arrived Rooney feels he has been given a new lease of life, he has done fantastically so far in the Manchester United home soccer jersey 2013 - 2014.

Wayne Rooney, aged 28 has been playing for the Reds since he transferred from Everton in 2004. Ironically it was David Moyes he played under at Everton, after 2 successful years in the blue shirt he wanted a change signed up to play in the Manchester United soccer jersey.

The emotion to describe the feeling of Sir Alex Ferguson leaving Manchester United to the fans would have probably been disbelief. It came as a real shock to everybody when the 71 year old announced his retirement after many years in charge of the soccer team from 1986 to 2013.

The Scotsman announced his news at the end of the 2012-13 season. Supporters were so used to him managing the Manchester United football shirts. Many described his retirement as 'the end of an era' and many labelled him as irreplaceable, this may just be true after the start of the 13-14 season.

The team just do not seem to have the momentum and skill that they showed last season. It was early May when David Moyes was unveiled as the new manager of Manchester United, holding up the Manchester United home football top. Many people suspected him, online betting companies had

Manchester United were founded in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club. They are now one of the biggest football clubs in the world, with supporters in all corners of the globe. American sportswear manufacturer Nike design the clubs soccer jerseys, and training wear in addition to items such as the Manchester United Nike prestige football that is designed specifically for supporters.

The Manchester United Nike prestige football is a high quality soccer ball. It is designed in the clubs famous home team colours of black, red, and white.

The famous club crest is featured centrally in the design along with a large Nike logo. The traditional style ball design features 32 hexagonal,

Wayne Rooney has been wearing a Manchester United home football top since he signed for them in 2004; he left his former team Everton for a transfer fee of £25.6m.  His career at Manchester United has been full of success winning five Premier League championship titles and a UEFA Champions League title amongst other trophies.

Wearing a Manchester United home kit he is one of their highest ever goal scoring players, and has won the heart of fans, his name and squad number are the most ever requested on personalised soccer shirts since the start of the Premier League.

With the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson at the end of last season the Red Devils are facing their first ever Premier League

During their summer tour in Japan the current Premier League Champions Manchester United have launched their brand new away kit.  Striker Danny Welbeck was chosen as the face of the advertising campaign, he is seen wearing the full strip whilst celebrating scoring a goal, set against a background of red coloured smoke, the image looks dramatic and exciting just like the navy and black colour scheme chosen for this seasons second choice strip.  The round neck design features large gingham checks reminiscent of last seasons home shirt, the gingham is representative of the clubs fascinating industrial heritage.  In Manchester in the 18th century there were many cotton mills, the industry was booming and the main output was gingham check fabric.  The Nike logo, club crest and AON sponsor are all simply designed in white, ensuring the strip looks elegant and stylish, another great addition alongside the already released home strip.  It is reported that the kit will

With all the changes that have happened in the space of a month at Manchester United including the ever popular Sir Alex Ferguson leaving, sports business owners will be wondering what will happen to sales of the Manchester United kit.

Very near to the end of the 2012-13 season Sir Alex Ferguson retired as manager at Old Trafford after 26 years in charge of the club. He enjoyed some very successful years at the club; he won 38 trophies including 13 Premier League titles and two UEFA Champion's League titles. All of the Manchester United fans loved and respected him and so did the players. It came as a huge shock when the 71 year old announced his retirement and it left a big hole in the club. The next question on everybody's mind was who was going to be the next manager and would they be able to fill the boots of one of the most successful managers of all time.

There were plenty of rumors flying around and stories in the media, bets from bookies and much more.

Wayne Rooney has made it quite clear now that he would like to leave Manchester United, so why is everybody trying to stop him?

Well there are a number of reasons that the Red devils would probably like to keep hold of the 27 year old striker. One is his goal scoring record; the Englishman has now scored 141 goals for the club in 277 domestic appearances. Since moving from Everton in 2004 Rooney started to impress football fans from all over the world, many teams were after him and he had played for the senior England team since 2003, he is a world class player.Rooney has always been known to get rather hot-headed during matches and over the past 2012-13 season he has not seemed happy at Manchester United at all. It all went downhill for Wayne since former Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie joined the team at the start of the 12-13 season.

Rooney did start the first match of the season against Everton but was dropped for the second match against Fulham, allowing RVP to make

Manchester United are one of the most popular football clubs in the world, they have a deeply ingrained local heritage based in the manufacturing of cotton dating back to the 18^th century.  The club like to embrace this local history in the look and design of the football kits that the players wear each week on the pitch.  Nike a sportswear manufacturing giant based in America has been designing and producing the teams kits since 2002, today the new kit designed for the upcoming 2013/14 season is released for sale.

The club was originally introduced under the name of Newton Heath in 1878, this was changed to Manchester United in 1902 after financial difficulties saw the original club wound up, with the introduction of a new name came the introduction of the now famous red and white colour scheme.  It is therefore no surprise that the new home top is red in colour, it is an all red, plain fabric design that is classically simple.  Again referring

Cristiano Ronaldo was born in Portugal in 1985, he began his football career aged 8 playing as amateur for Andorinha.  In 1997 he was signed by Sporting Clube de Portugal, where he played in the youth teams as well as the B and first team.  In the year 2000 at age 15 Ronaldo's football career could have been over when he was diagnosed with a heart condition, however after a successful operation to resolve the problem Ronaldo has now become one of the most successful footballers in the world.  Ronaldo became Manchester United's first ever Portuguese player when he signed with them in 2003 for a transfer fee of £12m.  He immediately made an impact at Manchester United and helped them win the Premier League for three successive seasons from 2007-2009, along with the UEFA Champions League in 2007/8 amongst other achievements.  In 2007 rumours began to circulate about a possible move to Real Madrid, however Ronaldo signed a new contract with Manchester United worth