Old mills have been converted into apartments. The latter exemplifies a new surge in high-rise building. Though Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will likely name a significantly changed side for Manchester United's trips to Luton, we still expect the Norwegian to name a highly experienced XI. As expected Dean Henderson is handed a starting role for tonight's trip to Luton! The main classical music venue was the Free Trade Hall on Peter Street until the opening in 1996 of the 2,500 seat Bridgewater Hall.[163]. Manchester is contiguous on all sides with several large settlements, except for a small section along its southern boundary with Cheshire. [150] This ceased to operate in June 2018, citing poor infrastructure. Historian Simon Schama noted that "Manchester was the very best and the very worst taken to terrifying extremes, a new kind of city in the world; the chimneys of industrial suburbs greeting you with columns of smoke". Luton Town 0-2 Manchester United (Rashford 88) 4.19pm EDT 16:19 Full times in the other Carabao Cup matches; 4.03pm EDT 16:03 Half-time: Luton Town 0-1 Manchester United… The M60 and M56 motorways pass through Northenden and Wythenshawe respectively in the south of Manchester. Often her house played host to influential authors: Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Eliot Norton, for example. Dean Henderson could be drafted into the side in place of David de Gea, with defenders Brandon Williams and Eric Bailly sat in front. [46] Heavy industry suffered a downturn from the 1960s and was greatly reduced under the economic policies followed by Margaret Thatcher's government after 1979. With fans, it's a different place - you'd love there to be fans here. Similarly, the chemical industry started by producing bleaches and dyes, but expanded into other areas. [145] From September 2010 the airport became one of only 17 airports in the world and the only UK airport other than Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport to operate the Airbus A380.[146]. “We need four or five games to get up to the standard we know we’re capable of,” he said. Later these were taken over by First Greater Manchester and Stagecoach Manchester. Famous former Blues include Peter Osgood, Gianfranco Zola, Dennis Wise, John Terry, Didier Drogba \u0026 Eden Hazard. I came here with the reserves in 2009 or 2010. A diagonal cross from Mata was almost swept hom by Lingard, but the reported Spurs target was denied by a block from his former United academy teammate Ryan Tunnicliffe. Until the 19th century local government was largely in the hands of manorial courts, the last of which was dissolved in 1846. There is a mix of high-density urban and suburban locations. [70] Manchester has a relatively high humidity level, and this, along with abundant soft water, was one factor that led to advancement of the textile industry in the area. His low shot fizzed past Shea and into the far corner to make it 3-0. The university's further achievements include Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill who developed and built the world's first stored-program computer in 1948; and, in 2004, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov successfully isolated and characterised the first graphene. [52] In January 2007, the independent Casino Advisory Panel licensed Manchester to build the UK's only supercasino,[53] but plans were abandoned in February 2008. Solskjaer insists Palace defeat NOT due to signings. At 53°28′0″N 2°14′0″W / 53.46667°N 2.23333°W / 53.46667; -2.23333, 160 miles (260 km) northwest of London, Manchester lies in a bowl-shaped land area bordered to the north and east by the Pennines, an upland chain that runs the length of northern England, and to the south by the Cheshire Plain. The economy grew relatively strongly between 2002 and 2012, when growth was 2.3 per cent above the national average. Manchester was credited as the main driving force behind British indie music of the 1980s led by The Smiths, later including The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, and James. [32] The industrial revolution brought about huge change in Manchester and was key to the increase in Manchester's population. Both usages are preserved in Insular Celtic languages, such as mam meaning "breast" in Irish and "mother" in Welsh. Though Manchester United will make a number of changes with a tricky trip to Brighton to come on Saturday, they'll likely still have too much quality for Luton. [75] The lowest temperature ever recorded in Manchester was −17.6 °C (0.3 °F) on 7 January 2010. [28] A stroke of a baron's pen is said to have divorced Manchester and Salford, though it was not Salford that became separated from Manchester, it was Manchester, with its humbler line of lords, that was separated from Salford. [187] She probably envisioned Manchester Cathedral churchyard as the burial place for Jane's parents and the birthplace of Jane herself. Manchester is a centre for musical education: the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham's School of Music. [105] It owns two of the country's four busiest airports and uses its earnings to fund local projects. In November 2014, it was announced that Greater Manchester would receive a new directly elected Mayor. [20], Regeneration began in the late 1980s, with initiatives such as the Metrolink, the Bridgewater Concert Hall, the Manchester Arena, and (in Salford) the rebranding of the port as Salford Quays. [51], Large city sections from the 1960s have been demolished, re-developed or modernised with the use of glass and steel. [20][217] For many years most national newspapers had offices in Manchester: The Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Sun. In 2018, Andy Burnham, appointed Sacha Lord as Greater Manchester’s first Night Time Economy Adviser, following in the footsteps of Amy Lamé, who was appointed by London Mayor Sadiq Khan in 2016 to be the first London night czar. Aside from United's trip to Luton, there are a number of other fixtures being played in the Carabao Cup tonight. [156] In terms of concertgoers, it is the busiest indoor arena in the world, ahead of Madison Square Garden in New York and The O2 Arena in London, which are second and third busiest. It began its first broadcast, but in 2015, That's Manchester took over to air on 31 May and launched the freeview channel 8 service slot, before moving to channel 7 in April 2016. [207][208] Of the schools in the LEA with 30 or more pupils, four had 90 per cent or more pupils achieving at least five A*–C grades at GCSE including maths and English: Manchester High School for Girls, St Bede's College, Manchester Islamic High School for Girls, and The King David High School. Tranmere Rovers 3-2 Manchester United … Dean Henderson, after having nothing to do for the better part of 80 minutes, had to show lightning quick reflexes to deny an equalizer for the home side through Tom Lockyer’s header. It was Manchester's first municipal airport and became the site of the first air traffic control tower in the UK, and the first municipal airfield in the UK to be licensed by the Air Ministry. The Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1894, creating the Port of Manchester and directly linking the city to the Irish Sea, 36 miles (58 km) to the west. Greenwood found himself in space just wide of the goal, and United’s new no. [144] A second runway was opened in 2001 and there have been continued terminal improvements. The Manchester station group – comprising Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Victoria, Manchester Oxford Road and Deansgate – is the third busiest in the United Kingdom, with 44.9 million passengers recorded in 2017/2018. Information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Verizon Media websites and apps. Paul Pogba is entirely absent from the squad. [72] They include the A62 via Oldham and Standedge,[73] the A57, Snake Pass, towards Sheffield,[74] and the Pennine section of the M62. Juan Mata stepped up and dispatched the penalty coolly, giving the visitors a 1-0 lead to take into the break. Traffic declined, and the port closed in 1982. Live stream: Sky Sports subscribers will be able to stream the match online via the website and SkyGo app. First-class sporting facilities were built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, including the City of Manchester Stadium, the National Squash Centre and the Manchester Aquatics Centre. The Manchester Larger Urban Zone, a Eurostat measure of the functional city-region approximated to local government districts, had a population of 2,539,100 in 2004. The city had a new terrestrial channel from January 2014 when YourTV Manchester, which won the OFCOM licence bid in February 2013. [192] The more than 500 licensed premises[193] in the city centre have a capacity to deal with more than 250,000 visitors,[194] with 110,000–130,000 people visiting on a typical weekend night,[193] making Manchester the most popular city for events at 79 per thousand people. Despite its title, it is available all day. Other than a snap shot from Mata that brought a very good save out of the Luton ‘keeper, and one driving run in particular from Jesse Lingard, there was not much to write home about in the first half — until the 44th minute. This reduces urban sprawl, prevents towns in the conurbation from further convergence, protects the identity of outlying communities, and preserves nearby countryside. A government statement in 2014 announced a £78 million grant for a new "large-scale, ultra-flexible arts space" for the city. [63] Pevsner wrote "That [neighbouring] Stretford and Salford are not administratively one with Manchester is one of the most curious anomalies of England". [188] Also associated with the city is the Victorian poet and novelist Isabella Banks, famed for her 1876 novel The Manchester Man. In 2012 it showed the strongest annual growth in business stock (5 per cent) of all core cities. [169]:13–14 The theatre, to be called The Factory, after Manchester's Factory Records, will provide a permanent home for the Manchester International Festival. 11 only ever needs a sliver of daylight to exploit — and exploit it he did. With the result now decided, the intensity of the Luton players dropped just enough for United to inflate the scoreline some more. They include Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848),[181] and studies such as The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 by Friedrich Engels, while living and working here. Much of the First Greater Manchester business was sold to Diamond Bus North West and Go North West in 2019. This will be the 39th meeting between these two sides and, as you'd expect, it's Manchester United who come in with a significantly better record. “It was an off day, everyone knows they can improve and we will improve. ", Henderson looks focussed ahead of his first United start. [202] Together they have a combined population of 76,025 students in higher education as of 2015,[203] although almost 6,000 of them were based at Manchester Metropolitan University's campuses at Crewe and Alsager in Cheshire.[204]. Every week we’ll be uploading fresh content from the training ground, our famous stadium and much, much more. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes. [61], The City of Manchester is governed by the Manchester City Council. From then the population began to decrease rapidly, due to slum clearance and the increased building of social housing overspill estates by Manchester City Council after the Second World War such as Hattersley and Langley. Manchester United registered their first win of the 2020-21 season as they defeated Championship side Luton Town 3-0 in the third roumd of the League Cup on … Its fortune declined after the Second World War, owing to deindustrialisation, but the IRA bombing in 1996 led to extensive investment and regeneration. The Manchester Arena hosted the FINA World Swimming Championships in 2008. Hello and welcome to Standard Sport's LIVE coverage of the Carabao Cup third-round clash between Luton and Manchester United! The biggest took place during the "Christmas Blitz" on the nights of 22/23 and 24 December 1940, when an estimated 474 tonnes (467 long tons) of high explosives plus over 37,000 incendiary bombs were dropped. The 47-storey, 554-foot (169 m) Beetham Tower was the tallest UK building outside London and the highest residential accommodation in Europe when completed in 2006. Manchester (/ˈmæntʃɪstər, -tʃɛs-/)[5][6] is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. [168] The £110 million venue was confirmed in July 2016. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? The first edition of Top of the Pops was broadcast here on New Year's Day 1964. Bet Here Betting Tips. [59][60] The BBC reports that redevelopment of recent years has heightened claims that Manchester is the second city of the UK. A larger-than-life statue of Abraham Lincoln by George Gray Barnard in the eponymous Lincoln Square (having stood for many years in Platt Fields) was presented to the city by Mr and Mrs Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati, Ohio, to mark the part Lancashire played in the cotton famine and American Civil War of 1861–1865.