Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United are in Los Angeles to officially kick off their pre-season schedule today, Saturday 15/07, with a friendly against LA Galaxy at the StubHub Center.
While training, they received some surprise guests, including Dominic Monaghan. As we all know, Dom has been a huge, life-long supporter of the team. Here are some photos and videos of the encounters!
Not once but twice this year has Dominic Monaghan appeared on the Men in Blazers podcast!
Men in Blazers hosts Michael Davies (@embassydavies) and Roger Bennett (@rogbennett) believe soccer is the American sport of the future. As it has been since 1972. Find these Men In Blazers on NBC Sports Network and NBCSports.com. Their aim is nothing less than to enlighten the masses to the wildly entertaining world of soccer and the English Premier League in particular. Immersed in the high and low culture of the beautiful game, the program mixes analysis and guest appearance in equal measure, with the aim of providing an intelligent yet often humorous, and always passionate, soccer broadcast.
Click HERE to watch the full episode.
Click HERE for part 1 (episode 8) and HERE for part 2 (Episode 9)!
Seems the fans approve!
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It’s no secret that Dom is a big Manchester United supporter!
Recently he did a few short videos about his legendary moments.
You may or may not know that as a life-long football fan and Manchester United supporter, Dominic Monaghan is also a columnist for PasteMagazine. He recently had this to say:
I’m fine with Manchester United exiting the Champions League.
It was gonna happen one way or the other. We can’t contend with Barcelona, Bayern Munich or Real Madrid. Hell, we can’t beat Manchester city or Juventus, Paris Saint-German or Valencia on a good day either.
But sliding out of a group that we should have topped seems incredulous for Manchester United and this is the real problem.
How far we have slumped. That it’s even possible. It wasn’t really that long ago that when Madrid or Munich or Barcelona drew us they thought, “Oh Crivens, let’s concentrate”.
We are a ghost of the team we once were. (cont.)
Read the whole article: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/12/dominic-monaghan-im-fine-with-man-united-exiting-t.html
UPDATE: Dom wrote another article in March 2016 titled “The Real Winners at Manchester United” – you can read that one HERE.
Want to read more columns about football by Dom? Visit previous posts HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. Or check out Dom’s page on the official Man United website HERE!
Our favourite Paste Soccer columnist (and a lifelong Manchester United fan) Dominic Monaghan posted the following article today:
Let’s be honest: Manchester United are a very famous football team. An empire. A football team whose shirt can behaves as currency in foreign countries, and an icebreaker. They are a buzzword in football.
They are also in a sorrier state than I have seen in a long time.
Injury ridden. Low on confidence. Players forced to play out of position. Out of the Champions League and battling for fourth spot? This is Manchester United? After 20 years fighting to WIN the premier league and Champions League? I dread to think what stunning display our darling Cristiano Ronaldo could put on against us at the moment.
So why am I about to argue in favor of keeping faith with Louis van Gaal? Here’s why: ….. Read more HERE.
Want to read more columns by Dom? Visit previous posts HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. Or check out Dom’s page on the official Man United website HERE!
Dominic has been a frequent football columnist for PasteMagazine, as well as a life-long fan of Manchester United.
In his latest addition, he talks about Wayne Rooney:
Wayne Rooney, captain of Manchester United and England, has been subject to hateful press throughout his career, now more than ever. As a Manchester United and England fan, I am baffled.
Though Rooney is by no means perfect, nor does he claim to be, it seems to be the case that a highly paid person is subject to anything the media can thrown at him, however hurtful or untruthful it may be. Many absolute lies are printed in newspapers.
As captain of England he shows pride in the honor, does his best with the team that is selected around him, supports the manager and works harder than most. Anyone claiming that Rooney is lazy should look at his statistics as a professional footballer. He is elite and has always been that way. You cannot run as fast or as far as him so stop it.
Read the full article on PasteMagazine HERE.
To read his other PasteMagazine features – click HERE.
Dom wrote another football column in PasteMagazine about the changes of management within Manchester United.
You know Dominic Monaghan as Charlie from Lost or Merry from Lord of the Rings. But he’s also a Paste Soccer columnist and a lifelong Manchester United fan.
Did the board of Manchester United plan on being haunted for a season?
Did they intentionally bring in a manager to fail?
Did they hand a poisoned chalice to a man who they were willing to sacrifice?
David Moyes’ tenure at Manchester United was a failure in a variety of ways—so many high profile losses, and an awful vibe seemed to emanate from the team. But maybe this was exactly what the Manchester United board were looking for …
Continue reading HERE
To read some of his previous columns in PasteMagazine, click HERE, HERE and HERE
Tomorrow the first game in the 2014 World Cup will start off the competitions!! Dom has always been passionate about football, and is very knowledgeable about it too. So the smart people at PasteMagazine have given him the opportunity to regularly write some features, here is their interview, and Dom’s first entry:
Jackson: So will you be watching the World Cup on the set of 100 Code?
Monaghan: It’s my favorite sporting competition of all time. I used to take time off, take that month off when it happened, just to enjoy the football, but I’ll be working in Sweden. We already have the office set up with a TV, so that when we’re doing studio work we can run backward and forward and watch the game.
To read the full article, go HERE.
We are England. We invented the sport. We came up with the rules. We named it soccer. We call it football. In 1966, we won the World Cup. There was a time when we were masters of the sport, when men like Alf Ramsey and Stanley Matthews were innovators and trailblazers. We established formations, tactics and built glorious stadiums. Most are still standing.
But we had made a fatal error: The game was too simple to play. Too easy to fall in love with. Too good. And so it became the “world’s game”. And the chance of us winning a World Cup again slipped further away.
To read the full article, go HERE.
Stay tuned for regular updates!! Enjoy the #WorldCup!
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