Carrick testimonial | Sunday June 4th 14:30 BST
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Is Scholes confirmed for this?
If he plays - just watch him boss it at levels still good enough for the Premier League
He's been fantastic for the legends team since retiring.
If he plays - just watch him boss it at levels still good enough for the Premier League
He's been fantastic for the legends team since retiring.
He is! Just check the OP for everyone involved. Quite a spectacular list of players.Is Scholes confirmed for this?
If he plays - just watch him boss it at levels still good enough for the Premier League
He's been fantastic for the legends team since retiring.
If only Ronaldo wasn't in a CL final!
After the disappointing testimonials of Rio and Rooney, it looks set that we're going to finally have a fun one again.
Looking forward to seeing this for the fun of it and also so Carricks twitter page goes back to normal instead of random announcements of players for his testimonial. And what an utterly random collection of players on the other team-Salgado,Duff,Abidal and Given? What link with Carrick am I missing here?
Abidal? Why?
I'm sure Old Trafford will show their appreciation to this man for agreeing to play in a charity testimonial...
I'm sure even Michael himself wouldn't object to putting him in the '08 XI, this match simply wouldn't happen without JT
Nice of Carrick to slip JT into the team.
i think the deal is Carrick give him round of applause on 26 minutesI'm sure even Michael himself wouldn't object to putting him in the '08 XI, this match simply wouldn't happen without JT
Some of the replies on Instagram to Terry though, some people are thick as mince aren't they. "Terry in a United shirt". No.
I know! There was one as well who said they hoped he was playing for the opposition.
Someone with the Patrick Stewart (as Picard) facepalm please!
I think the All-Star team is players he's played with (i.e. England, Spurs & West Ham), and players he's played against. Whether he actually played against them is a different matter but I think that's how they're spinning it.
I think he played against all of them, most in PL and Abidal in CL final?
He is an essential part of our 2008 champions league winning team, we are not ungrateful.
Really looking forward to this the lineup is looking great.
Ronaldo would be the icing on the cake - I am sure that even with the CL final the day before, he could do a cheeky 20 minutes.
He is only going to be an hour away by helicopter, maybe we could all chip in for the flight....
Ronaldo would be the icing on the cake - I am sure that even with the CL final the day before, he could do a cheeky 20 minutes.
He is only going to be an hour away by helicopter, maybe we could all chip in for the flight....
I dont think there is any real connection to half of them - most likely they have the same agent or something like that
Was going to say, he's apart of United's folklore!
A lot of footballers are just friends so they are probably just random players he gets along with. Given for example would have lived in Manchester and they very well could have been friends. Who he then could become friends with Duff too. Or some other non football reason.
This looks like a top event. No wonder ITV are showing it.
Abidal could also be included because of his earlier health troubles, perhaps Carrick is showing his empathy and appreciation towards him.
Kick-off time changed
Due to the benefit concert for the victims of the Manchester terror attack to be held on Sunday evening (4 June) at Lancashire County Cricket Club, the organisers of Michael Carrick’s testimonial are complying with the requirements of the applicable authorities to bring forward the kick-off time of the match by 90 minutes to 14:30 BST.
There's now apparently going to be a benefit concert for the Manchester Arena victims at the cricket ground on Sunday too.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ester-this-weekend-say-police-benefit-concert
The event will be held at Old Trafford cricket ground, which holds 50,000 people. A testimonial game for the Manchester United player Michael Carrick is due to take place at Old Trafford football ground, less than half a mile away, on the same day.
“We’ve been working with Michael Carrick’s team and [Grande’s] team to try and make this happen, because clearly we can’t have 65,000 people in Old Trafford for Michael Carrick’s [testimonial game] and 50,000 in Lancashire Cricket Club, both at the same time,” said Hopkins. “It would just have caused utter traffic chaos, let alone the security issues for us.”
"Hopkins said police had been speaking to Carrick’s team to reach a compromise so that both events could go ahead. He added that police would also be dealing with crowds returning from the Champions League final in Cardiff, which takes place on Saturday night.
He said: “I’m fairly confident that we’ll be able to do both on Sunday and the people of Manchester will yet again be able to show their support.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ester-this-weekend-say-police-benefit-concert
The event will be held at Old Trafford cricket ground, which holds 50,000 people. A testimonial game for the Manchester United player Michael Carrick is due to take place at Old Trafford football ground, less than half a mile away, on the same day.
“We’ve been working with Michael Carrick’s team and [Grande’s] team to try and make this happen, because clearly we can’t have 65,000 people in Old Trafford for Michael Carrick’s [testimonial game] and 50,000 in Lancashire Cricket Club, both at the same time,” said Hopkins. “It would just have caused utter traffic chaos, let alone the security issues for us.”
"Hopkins said police had been speaking to Carrick’s team to reach a compromise so that both events could go ahead. He added that police would also be dealing with crowds returning from the Champions League final in Cardiff, which takes place on Saturday night.
He said: “I’m fairly confident that we’ll be able to do both on Sunday and the people of Manchester will yet again be able to show their support.”
That's £40 worth of train tickets unusable then.
why , I am pretty sure that the train companies will still honour them.
They're only usable on the specific train that they're booked for. Typically I've just walked in from picking them up at the station.
yes that maybe the case , but have you asked the train company about using them, I see no reason why they should say no , the change of time of out of your control.
Those hoping for Ronaldo are going to be disappointed. Even if he wanted to do a 5 minute cameo, Madrid wouldn't release him at such a crucial moment.
Have a little bit of a think about it and put it into perspective before you say too much.
The game is the day after the final so it's not really crucial but I agree I can't see him being involved. Would be great if he came back to Manchester for the day though.
Surprised they've agreed to two massive events on the same day. The benefit concert could have been arranged for another day really.
I did. Doesn't change the fact though that I've now got train tickets, which can't be changed or refunded - I've checked with the train operator - which will get us into the city centre minutes before kick off.
And you're annoyed at who?