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Solskjaer bows out to leave United with fewer options on front line | Manchester United
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the Manchester United and former Norway forward, will today announce his retirement from football, having finally succumbed to the knee injury that has troubled him for the past four years. The 34-year-old bowed to the inevitable after consultation with medical staff and is expected to confirm the news today, with concern about the impact on Sir Alex Ferguson s squad ...
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“There was an awful noise, the grind of metal on metal. Then there was the void.” - Sir Bobby Charlton recalling the Munich air disaster
101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League,La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup and more — ... Oliver Kay in The Times notes the immediate problem for Sir Alex. “His name [Solskjaer] is certain to be sung long and loud for many years at Old Trafford, but, in the short term, his retirement creates a problem for Ferguson, who has been concerned in recent weeks that his striker department is undermanned.” ...

Manchester United Shoot Themselves In The Foot
CaughtOffside.com — ... The Times is reporting that Man Utd forward Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has called it q uits on his football career, no doubt saddening thousands of fans who remember the countless highs in his career, as well as frustrating Sir Alex, whose striking options are shrinking by the minute. Whilst the gruff Scot is considering sending out Carlos Tévez in body armor to prevent injury, he must be kicking himself for selling Alan Smith to Newcastle United and Giuseppe Rossi to Villarreal, and the subsequent loss Wayne Rooney with a hairline fracture of the foot was another blow. Solskjaer, a much loved figure at Old Trafford who scored a whopping 126 goals in 366 appearances for United, still held every hope of returning from injury after going through a minor knee operation in Norway. But the Times reports that his recovery has been very slow : “He recently admitted that he expected ...

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bbc.co.uk 8/28/2007 — Ole Gunnar Solskjaer brings the curtain down on 11 years at Old Trafford with one simple statement of fact proving his worth. No-one - inside or outside Old Trafford - can muster up a single bad word to say about the Norwegian whose boyish appearance ...