Welcome to the ninth episode of the Red Dead Podcast, the super sexy Manchester United podcast for Truly Reds, brought to you as always by Tom “Darren Fletcher” Addison and Liam “Wrestlemania” Brown.

This week we try to cover United’s last three matches (and decide to skip one), lay into the retarded fans that ruined the Leeds game, get all Sigmund Freud and try to understand the “Cognitive Biases” that make football fans such plebs, and infiltrate fortress RAWK and discuss whether scousers, as some clame, invented the 4-2-3-1 formation.

In what will be a new weekly feature, we also take a trip down memory lane and revisit the youth team legend that was Philip Mulryne, and we announce our new mascot/man-crush for the coming season.

Comments, feedback and questions are greatly appreciated, you can contact us on reddeadpodcast@hotmail.co.uk 

Remember, you can also follow us, and Truly Reds, on Twitter: @TrulyReds @TomRDPodcast and @LiamRDPodcast

Join us again soon, where we’ll be dissecting United’s performance against Stoke and generally ranting like old men about all sorts of issues that are beyond our intellectual capacity.

And don’t forget, the 7th Annual Podcast Award nominations are now open! So go on, give us a nomination, you know you want to. Liam will strip for your next birthday if you do.

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Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez may be on the football scrapheap at the moment but is certainly not forgotten by Manchester United icon Sir Alex Ferguson who had no hesitation in continuing his feud with the Spaniard – while defending Jose Mourinho’s confrontational managerial style. Ferguson saw a picture of  Benitez during an interview in an Italian newspaper office and said “He is jobless and he is not my friend.” On the other hand Sir Alex says he is a close pal of Mourinho, tipped to follow him at Old Trafford but whose success has been blighted by disciplinary problems with the football authorities.

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“CHAMP19NS”  is a hardcover, 264 page book published by Simon & Schuster that belongs in the library of every Manchester United fan. Why? Because it records history! An official account of a 19th title which made it the most successful club in the annals of English football. The players bring you inside the dressing room to hear about reaching the Champion’s League final and every moment of their Premier League campaign.

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Welcome to the eigth episode of the Red Dead Podcast, the stupendous Manchester United podcast for Truly Reds, brought to you as always by Tom “Darren Fletcher” Addison and Liam “Wrestlemania” Brown.

This week we analyse United’s cracking performance against l’Arse and bask in the (Red Dead) redemption of our favourite Spanish ‘keeper. We also take a lot at the best of the football from around Europe and, perhaps unfairly, tear into Scottish football a little bit.

We also offer our view on the surprising transfer of Owen Hargreaves to Manchester City, and also rip to shreads an article written by a Liverpool fan, comparing the current United squad with the current Scouse one.

Comments, feedback and questions are greatly appreciated, you can contact us on reddeadpodcast@hotmail.co.uk 

Remember, you can also follow us, and Truly Reds, on Twitter: @TrulyReds @TomRDPodcast and @LiamRDPodcast

Due to the international break we won’t be podcasting for another couple of weeks, but don’t worry! I’m sure we’ll have plenty to discuss for next time, including what Liam’s favourite soup is and how much Tom weighs.

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It makes you wonder how major club managers can possibly juggle the commitments of their admittedly large squads. Just look at what Sir Alex Ferguson is up against for the rest of this year following Sundays home clash with Arsenal. It’s enough to give anyone nightmares as key players travel across the world for international duties on no less than three occasions. That’s on top of a heavy domestic and Champion League schedule but Sir Alex is of course not the only one facing this dilemma, many leading Premier League and European club bosses have to somehow wrestle with the same problem. It’s little wonder that so called super squads are no longer a luxury but an absolute must if clubs are to have any hope of winning silverware.

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It’s now 21 years since Liverpool – for so long the most successful club in league history – last won the English top flight title. While Manchester United supporters have celebrated 12 titles in that time, hundreds of thousands of Liverpool fans have never seen their club captain lift the Premier League trophy – and the prospect of  Steven Gerrard getting his hands on that gleaming piece of silverware before he retires doesn’t appear too likely in the new campaign. But pre season is a time for fans to dream, so Liverpool fans can look at the picture and imagine what might be called The Impossible Dream!

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