Miscellaneous Reserve/Youth News

We've been drawn Coventry at home in the FA Youth Cup 3rd round.

City vs Palace, Leicester vs Chelsea & Derby vs Sunderland the standout ties elsewhere.
 
UEFA Youth League:

Away leg against AZ will be played on Tuesday 26 Nov at 16:00 GMT.

Tickets here.

Second leg at home on Wednesday 11 Dec at 14:00 GMT (initial information).

No excuses to not show them live.

Second leg will be played at Old Trafford(!) on Tuesday 10 Dec at 19:00 GMT.
 
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No broadcast so. Hopefully we can watch the away match at least.

Yeah it seems like the club has prioritized the experience for the boys to play an evening game under the lights with a big stadium and a big crowd. I can understand that, even though I don’t like missing yet another academy game.
 
Yeah it seems like the club has prioritized the experience for the boys to play an evening game under the lights with a big stadium and a big crowd. I can understand that, even though I don’t like missing yet another academy game.
Yea at least it is understandable here with them getting to play at Old Trafford. Although I’d question a big crowd, 6pm will be very hard for people to get to from work and I can’t actually see any mention of it from the club so the marketing will no doubt be non existent and people won’t even know.

The latest academy briefing also says the away match won’t be broadcast due to CL clash despite there being no clash so can chalk that one off too.
 
Yea at least it is understandable here with them getting to play at Old Trafford. Although I’d question a big crowd, 6pm will be very hard for people to get to from work and I can’t actually see any mention of it from the club so the marketing will no doubt be non existent and people won’t even know.

The latest academy briefing also says the away match won’t be broadcast due to CL clash despite there being no clash so can chalk that one off too.

Sorry it’s 7pm, thought AZ had used their own local time in the tweet.

That sucks. I guess a 16:00 GMT kickoff isn’t early enought to not clash with a 17:45 GMT CL kickoff. Fecking annoying.
 
Something about this warms my heart. Seasoned professionals, academy graduates and 16-17 year old talents who are aiming to become ones - all together.

 
Wonder if Curley is actually on a work experience loan somewhere as he keeps appearing in the training photos but didn't play for the U21s for a while already.
 
Wonder if Curley is actually on a work experience loan somewhere as he keeps appearing in the training photos but didn't play for the U21s for a while already.
I’d hazard a guess he was one of the two at Rotherham the other week anyway. One of them was a centre mid and only Curley and Moorhouse fit the bill but Moorhouse is just back from long term injury so more likely to be Curley you’d think.