Sue Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan and her mom are being sued by a freelance photographer who claims Lindsay hit him with her mom's car back in March. The photographer is claiming he "sustained severe and permanent personal injuries" including injuries to both knees for which he was "still getting medical treatment." The photographer's lawyer says he's seeking unspecified monetary damages "for his pain and suffering and his lost wages."

If you remember the incident, Lindsay sort of bumps him with her car and then he drops to the ground and starts flailing around. Now I'm not calling him a liar, but he's lying. And he's a liar. I want Lindsay to go down as much as everybody else, but not for this. If anything, the guy should be thanking her for giving him a car massage.

Paris Hilton: Off the Hook

Paris Hilton's jail sentence has been cut in half from 45 days to 23 due to "good behavior." Additionally, they'll be giving her her own special needs housing unit separated from the other prisoners.

"This was decided because of her high profile," Whitmore told Reuters. "She will do fine if she follows the rules."

I'm not going to argue with the special needs housing unit, because, well, that sounds about right, but what is this good behavior they're talking about? The only thing she's done so far is show up late to her court hearing. Oh, she didn't murder anybody? That's another 23 days off. At this rate they'll end up sending her on a Hawaii vacation and apologizing.

BRUCE WILLIS NEW CATCH

52-year-old Bruce Willis is reportedly dating 23-year-old Playmate Tamara Witmer, who's only five years older than his daughter Rumer. Tamara says:

"He's got the sexiest voice!" she says. "He's so smooth and suave. I don't mind the bald head. He's really good looking in person."

BRITNEY SPEARS ANGRY WITH MUM

Britney Spears is allegedly so mad at her mom for urging her into rehab she's cut off all communication with her and even refused to visit her in the hospital on Mother's Day.

“Britney has cut off all communication with her mom,” a “friend” of the 25-year-old singer told the National Enquirer. “She’s gone from calling Lynne ten times a day to flat-out refusing to speak to her.” Lynne, 52, was hospitalized in southern California recently when a bout of the flu turned into pneumonia. The Star is reporting a similar story. “Britney says her mom betrayed her and she refuses to get over it,” the source told the Enquirer. “When she was told to give her mom a call, Britney said: ‘I’m busy, I have my own kids now.’ ”

Britney Spears has always had really good judgement and makes great decisions, so I'm sure this was for the best. As was me finding that giant treasure chest full of gold. At first I wasn't so sure, but then I bought myself a space shuttle and decided , hey, maybe having a giant treasure chest full of gold isn't so bad.

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FACT ABOUT RITA DOMINIC

Fact about Rita Dominic

Philosophy: always strive to achive your heart desire
Can't do without: Walkman or CD player
Type of Music: Oldies or sentimental
Best African Food: Afange Soup and semovita
Beauty Routine: Mild cleaser and facial wipe
What she admire in people: Natural and humble people
What I find attractive in a guy: Cool, Polished, intelligent and 100% dress sense

STAR WATCH:INI EDO

Born in Nigeria, star Nollywood actress Ini Edo comes from a family of four. She is the second sibling.

She began began her acting career in 2000 having been discovered at an audition. She has over 60 movies to her credit.

She is a simple lady and resides in lagos. She celebrate her birthday on April 19

World's biggest Dog, World's heaviest Dog.

Hercules: The biggest Dog Ever According to Guiness World Records. Hercules was recently awarded the honorable distinction of worlds Biggest Dog by Guinness World Records. Hercules is an English Mastiff and whas a 38 inch neck and weighs 282 pounds. With " paws the size of Softballs" (reports the boston Herald), the three-year-old monster is far larger and heavier than his breed's standard 200lb limit. Herculess owner Mr. Flynn says that hercules weight is natural and not induced bye a bizarre diet: "I fed him normal food and he just grew"... and grew. and grew.

Sugery: To be or not to be?

49-year-old Melanie Griffith was spotted shopping in Malibu looking like she just turned 112. I'm not normally a fan of surgery, but if your knees look like this then get it. And get a lot of it. Hell, amputate if you need to. You've got a serious problem if people look at you and can't even tell if you're human anymore.

Who wants to kill J.LO?

Jennifer Lopez has allegedly increased security because an animal-rights activist has been sending her letters threatening "'to kill her in public, just like the slaughtered animals whose fur she wears."

The source says J.Lo initially dismissed the notes, which have been arriving for a month, as lunatic junk mail. But husband Marc Anthony isn't taking the matter lightly. "He has hired two off-duty police officers, in addition to her usual security team, to watch over Lopez whenever she makes public appearances," says the pal.

What if this guy showed up one day wearing a J.Lo outfit? And I don't mean some outfit designed by her, I mean an actual dead Jennifer Lopez turned into an outfit. I think that'd be pretty ironic. Like the time I saved the President's life by having sex with a gang of hot cheerleader assassins until they died from exhaustion. I'm not actually sure what 'ironic' means, I just wanted to tell that story. That true story, I might add.

I am Sorry - Akon

Akon has apologized for the incident last month where he basically dry-humped a 15-year-old girl on stage. He released a statement saying he was sorry, but that he also didn't know the girl was underage.

"I want to sincerely apologize for the embarrassment and any pain I've caused to the young woman who joined me onstage, her family and the Trinidad community for the events at my concert. It was never my intention to embarrass or take advantage of my fans in any way, especially those under the age of 18. That is why we tried to make sure that the club did not admit anyone under 18 in the audience. Somehow, that standard was not met."

In Akon's defense, there's no way anybody would've guessed this chick was underage. Who the hell would let their 15-year-old daughter go to a concert dressed like this? The Incredible Hulk would make a better parent.

Denzel Washignton

What he is known for?

As one of the biggest stars on the planet, Denzel Washington has appeared in some of Hollywood’s most successful films over the last couple of decades. He first made his mark in 1987 with a riveting performance in the apartheid drama Cry Freedom, and followed that up with a series of memorable roles in films like 1989’s Glory (for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar), 1990’s Mo’ Better Blues and 1991’s Ricochet. He firmly established himself as a bankable leading man after the one-two punch of Malcolm X and Philadelphia in 1992 and 1993, respectively, and he’s been turning in remarkably consistent work ever since.

Case in point: Denzel picked up his second Oscar for 2001’s Training Day, making history as the second black actor to win in the Best Actor category at the Academy Awards.
Behind the scenes

A devoted family man -- he’s been married for almost 25 years and has four children -- Denzel has been diligent in keeping a low profile throughout his acting career, effectively ensuring that neither he nor his loved ones are ever hounded by the paparazzi.

Denzel has also been extremely active as a spokesman for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, having relied upon their services during his own childhood. It consequently doesn’t come as much of a surprise to learn that Denzel is generally considered one of the nicest celebrities around, a personality trait that makes him inordinately approachable. Unlike some of his colleagues, Denzel seems genuinely grateful for his loyal fans.
On the horizon

Never one to slow down for too long, Denzel has two films currently slated for release -- Tony Scott’s Déjà Vu and Ridley Scott’s American Gangster. Déjà Vu casts Denzel as an ATF agent who discovers that he has the ability to travel through time, while American Gangster tells the real-life story of a ‘70s Harlem kingpin who used coffins to smuggle drugs into the country. Denzel is also prepping The Great Debaters, an inspirational story that’ll mark his second directorial effort, following his 2002 debut, Antwone Fisher.

Kanye West

As the prolific musician behind two massively successful hip-hop albums -- The College Dropout and Late Registration -- Kanye West has long-since established himself as a force to be reckoned with. Though he’s only a few years into his career, Kanye has already won a host of Grammys and his songs -- like “Jesus Walks” and “Gold Digger” -- have become entrenched within the pop culture landscape. Kanye’s also experienced his share of controversies, with his infamous “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” statement at a benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina relief being the most obvious example.
Behind the scenes

In addition to his relentless recording and touring schedule, Kanye remains an active producer on the hip-hop scene. Having received his start by working with performers such as Alicia Keys, Jay-Z and Janet Jackson, Kanye’s connections within the industry have resulted in the formation of his own record label. Called GOOD Music (GOOD being an acronym for Getting Out Our Dreams), the label features artists like Common and John Legend on its roster, and Kanye continues to discover and nurture up-and-coming acts that he feels have the potential to be something great. He’s also starting his own clothing line called Pastelle Clothing, which is set to make its debut sometime this fall.
On the horizon

Having taken home a trio of statues at the recent Grammy Awards ceremony, Kanye is keeping a relatively low profile. He is currently hard at work on his follow-up to Late Registration -- the appropriately titled Graduation -- and he has lent his vocals to The Game’s upcoming sophomore effort.

Kanye’s personal life has recently taken a turn for the better, following his engagement to his long-time girlfriend, Alexis.

OLUCHI

Quick Bio
Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, along with her four brothers and sisters, Oluchi Onweagba never gave a single thought to modeling, engaging instead in normal adolescent activities such as ping pong and tennis.

Everything changed, however, once she entered and won a South African television network's Face of Africa beauty contest. Oluchi suddenly found herself being wooed by various modeling agencies.

She eventually signed a three-year contract with the prestigious Elite agency, and soon found herself traveling around the world to appear in ad campaigns for companies such as Gap, Banana Republic and Victoria's Secret.

Oluchi even made an appearance in the 2005 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition; she was so popular that she was asked to return for the 2006 issue.

But Oluchi, not content to be known as just another pretty face, has already begun preparing for a life beyond modeling. She recently received an associate's degree in business organization and management from NYU, and plans to take more business classes in the future.

For now, though, it's safe to say that Oluchi's future lies on the catwalk: "I think I reflect a lot of African beauty. I am African. And I am beautiful."

P H I L I P E M E A G W A LI

It's hard to say who invented the Internet. There were many mathematicians and scientists who contributed to its development; computers were sending signals to each other as early as the 1950s. But the Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali, a math whiz who came up with the formula for allowing a large number of computers to communicate at once.

Emeagwali was born to a poor family in Akure, Nigeria, in 1954. Despite his brain for math, he had to drop out of school because his family, who had become war refugees, could no longer afford to send him. As a young man, he earned a general education certificate from the University of London and later degrees from George Washington University and the University of Maryland, as well as a doctoral fellowship from the University of Michigan.

At Michigan, he participated in the scientific community's debate on how to simulate the detection of oil reservoirs using a supercomputer. Growing up in an oil-rich nation and understanding how oil is drilled, Emeagwali decided to use this problem as the subject of his doctoral dissertation. Borrowing an idea from a science fiction story about predicting the weather, Emeagwali decided that rather than using 8 expensive supercomputers he would employ thousands of microprocessors to do the computation.

The only step left was to find 8 machines and connect them. (Remember, it was the 80s.) Through research, he found a machine called the Connection Machine at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which had sat unused after scientists had given up on figuring out how to make it simulate nuclear explosions. The machine was designed to run 65,536 interconnected microprocessors. In 1987, he applied for and was given permission to use the machine, and remotely from his Ann Arbor, Michigan, location he set the parameters and ran his program. In addition to correctly computing the amount of oil in the simulated reservoir, the machine was able to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second.

The crux of the discovery was that Emeagwali had programmed each of the microprocessors to talk to six neighboring microprocessors at the same time.

The success of this record-breaking experiment meant that there was now a practical and inexpensive way to use machines like this to speak to each other all over the world. Within a few years, the oil industry had seized upon this idea, then called the Hyperball International Network creating a virtual world wide web of ultrafast digital communication.

The discovery earned him the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers' Gordon Bell Prize in 1989, considered the Nobel Prize of computing, and he was later hailed as one of the fathers of the Internet. Since then, he has won more than 100 prizes for his work and Apple computer has used his microprocessor technology in their Power Mac G4 model. Today he lives in Washington with his wife and son.

"The Internet as we know it today did not cross my mind," Emeagwali told TIME. "I was hypothesizing a planetary-sized supercomputer and, broadly speaking, my focus was on how the present creates the future and how our image of the future inspires the present."

Jamie Fox

Jamie Foxx has certainly come a long way since his days as a bit player on In Living Color. Though his early career is littered with questionable choices and flat-out disasters (remember Booty Call?), Jamie’s small but pivotal role in the 1999 Oliver Stone drama Any Given Sunday (in which he stole scenes from no less than Al Pacino) firmly established the actor as more than just a moderately amusing comedic presence. Follow-up appearances in such critically acclaimed films as 2001’s Ali, 2004’s Ray (for which he won an Oscar) and 2006’s Miami Vice have cemented Jamie’s status as a bona fide A-list figure.

The accolades don’t stop there, though. Foxx is also a Grammy-nominated, multiplatinum-selling recording artist who has had a handful of singles hit the top of the Billboard charts.

Foxx’s accomplishments also made some history, as he became the sixth artist to win an Academy Award for acting and achieve a No. 1 album in the U.S., joining industry heavyweights Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Eminem, Cher, and Barbra Streisand in this feat.
Behind the scenes

Long before he became an Academy Award-winning performer, Jamie Foxx was struggling diligently to forge a successful career as a musician (he released his first album in 1994). As such, Jamie campaigned heavily for the part of Ray Charles in 2004’s Ray, knowing that the role was a perfect opportunity for him to blend his passion for acting with his musical abilities. The success of Ray -- both financially and critically -- gave Jamie the confidence to move forward and record his first album in over a decade. The result: 2005’s Unpredictable was an instant smash and gave Jamie the musical cred he’s been fighting for his entire life.
On the horizon

Jamie continues to explore his song-and-dance side with a starring role in the highly anticipated adaptation of Dreamgirls, which is based on the hit Broadway musical and revolves around the trials and tribulations of three black soul singers in the ‘60s.
In continuing his streak of critically acclaimed action flicks, Jamie is set to appear in The Kingdom alongside Jennifer Garner, Jeremy Piven and Chris Cooper. The film, which is being directed by Peter Berg (The Rundown, Friday Night Lights), revolves around a team of government agents and their exploits in the Middle East.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Bio

Born in London, England, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje split his time as a youth between the UK and Nigeria. After earning a Masters from London's prestigious King's College University, a career in acting came his way when acclaimed director Frank Marshall cast him in Congo. This led to appearances in the films Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and Legionnaire, the HBO movie Deadly Voyage, television series Cracker and New York Undercover, as well as the ABC miniseries 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Adewale recently wrapped Get Rich or Die Tryin', in which he plays the lead opposite Curtis 50 Cent Jackson. The film, which will be released this winter, was directed and produced by Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan. He also completed work on the film Mistress of Spices, a romantic comedy in which he stars opposite Aishwarya Rai. That film was written and directed by Gurinder Chada & Paul Mayeda Berges, part of the creative team behind Bend It Like Beckham.

Adewale's dramatic portrayal of the murderous drug addicted prisoner Adebisi in the television series Oz led to critical and audience acclaim, as well as two NAACP Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Ever eager to explore new ground, Adewale left Oz to focus on his film career and subsequently went on to star in blockbusters opposite Brendan Frasier in The Mummy Returns and with Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity.

Adewale's newest role is Mr. Eko on ABC's Lost. Mr. Eko is a passenger from the tail-end of the plane whose survival and combat skills are crucial to the rest of the people on the island. He is know with the main group of survivors and as of episode 3x5 "The Cost Of Living" he has been killed off.

What Adewale will do with his future career is up to him but it is certain that he was killed of for the storyline and a possibly because he has trouble with the laws in Hawaii and following them.

Angelina Jolie's gun amnesty

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have banned their children from watching their violent movies.

The lovers, who met playing weapon-wielding assassins in 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith', have also banned their brood from playing with toy guns because they don't want them exposed to violence.

A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Angelina is protecting them from seeing her make violence look good.

"Most of her successful roles have had her waving weapons and getting violent."

Brad, 43, and Angelina, 31, are currently in Prague, where Angelina is filming 'Wanted', alongside Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy.

'Wanted' focuses on a man who realises his late father was an assassin and then trains to become a professional killer.

Angelina, famed for her role as feisty ammo-loaded Lara Croft in 'Tomb Raider', has three adopted children, Maddox, five, Pax Thien, three and Zahara, two, and a biological daughter Shiloh, nearly one, with partner Brad.

Star Watch: Caroline Chikezie

Beautiful, 5 '10' Caroline Chikezie was born 19 February 1979, in London, England, UK to Nigerian parents.








Here are some of her movies...

"Torchwood" as Lisa (2 episodes, 2006-2007)
End of Days (2007) TV Episode as Lisa - Cyberwoman (2006) TV Episode as Lisa
Eragon (2006) as Nasuada
Breaking and Entering (2006) as Erika
Take 3 Girls (2006) as Spot
Æon Flux (2005) as Freya
The Mistress of Spices (2005) as Myisha
"Footballers' Wives" as Elaine Hardy (7 episodes, 2004)

SPIDER MAN 3 - REVIEW

It's odd to think of Spider-Man 2 as a small movie, but next to the clanking, wheezing contraption that is Spider-Man 3, that $784 million-grossing megahit feels like some little Sundance indie. In an attempt to break opening-weekend records and justify this movie's much-disputed price tag, director Sam Raimi has piled on so many villains, subplots, supporting roles, and production numbers (Kirsten Dunst sings! Tobey Maguire dances!) that a news anchor is brought in at one point to help distinguish between two separate black-Lycra-clad superdudes who are terrorizing the city at the same time.
The second Spider-Man, one of those rare franchise sequels that surpasses the original, cleverly kept things simple: Peter Parker (Maguire), the superhero's schleppy alter ego, had to decide whether saving the world was worth losing his beloved Mary Jane Watson (Dunst), while Mary Jane had to decide between sticking with Peter and marrying a square-jawed astronaut. Spidey 2 also had a knockout villain in Doc Ock, a man-machine-octopus hybrid played with Byronic gloom by Alfred Molina.
The writers of Spider-Man 3, a team that includes Raimi and his brother Ivan (but not novelist Michael Chabon, who collaborated on the script of 2) seem to be suffering from villain insecurity. Are they afraid that James Franco, as Peter's best-friend-turned-superfoe Harry Osborn, isn't threatening enough? Why do they feel the need to overcompensate by throwing in the Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), an ex-con who can change into a shape-shifting heap of sand particles, and Venom (Topher Grace), an envious rival of Peter's at the Daily Bugle who transforms into a fanged, building-scaling meanie? And I'm not even counting Bad Spider-Man or the evil space licorice.
Yes, licorice. In a development entirely unrelated to any of the abovementioned bad guys, a meteor harboring an evil symbiotic life form just happens to land near the spot where Peter and MJ are lounging on a giant spiderweb, looking at the stars. (Yet another perk of dating a superhero: He can weave you a rad hammock!) A bit of this space fungus, which looks like a living bundle of black licorice whips, just happens to wrap itself around Pete's scooter. The candy rides back to his squalid apartment, where it hangs out under the furniture till it's time to wrap itself slowly, inexorably, around his Spidey suit. Overnight, Spider-Man gets a black-clad evil twin, while the modest, nerdy Peter metamorphoses into a conceited, spotlight-hogging ladies' man—basically, a superdick.
Peter's narcissistic self-enjoyment during the early phase of this transformation is one of the funnest parts of the movie. Tobey Maguire struts the streets of New York like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, giving finger guns to every attractive woman he sees. He heads into a clearance sale and comes out looking fine in a suave black suit. He performs a weird Bob Fosse jazz-hands evil dance with his new love interest Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard) while Mary Jane looks on, crushed.
These utterly silly scenes add little to the movie's multiple story lines, and this film, at 140 minutes, is plenty well-padded without them. But they do return us briefly to the spirit of Spider-Man, the endearing fact that, as Dan Kois points out in his slide show on the character, this is a superhero for the rest of us. He's broke, a bad dresser, clumsy at romantic gestures, and perpetually late. The evil Peter Parker is funny because he's nowhere near as frightening as he thinks he is—a gambit that, in a defter movie, could have been played not only for laughs but for drama. The script hints that Peter's jerkification was already under way before his encounter with the corrupting space candy. Why not go with that internal motivation for the transformation? Scrap the Black Vines of Doom and this becomes a fable about how success makes monsters of us all (a story that Raimi, helming one of the top-grossing franchises in movie history, no doubt knows something about.)
Of course, the critics could condemn Spider-Man 3 in one thundering chorus, and we'd sound like a few sorry crickets chirping to the hordes who will line up to see it this weekend. There are plenty of pleasures here: The slow birth of the Sandman from a heap of supercharged sand crystals (or something) is a marvel of digital animation, and the chemistry between Dunst and Maguire feels like the dynamic of a real couple, full of subtle shifts and eloquent silences. But the climactic action sequence, with its surfeit of villains and its final weepy sacrifice, seems hastily assembled from a bargain rack of lesser movies. Your first thought as the credits roll isn't "Wow, what'll happen next?" but "Where is there left to go with this?" Raimi and his Spidey team may be spending and making money by the forklift, but they're nickel-and-diming their hero out of a story.

Celebrity Adoption

Angelina Jolie has three of them. Madonna is allegedly working on her second. And plenty of other celebs are lining up to import offspring from Southeast Asia, Africa and other poverty-stricken regions of the world.

The cynics cry that rich Westerners are using third-world babies as accessories. The more positive among us applaud the trend, saying that if the cause is ultimately good, do the motivations even matter?

What do you think?

Paris Hilton facing Jail term

In her first public comments since she was handed a 45-day jail sentence for a driving related offense, celebrity heiress Paris Hilton has described her punishment as cruel and unwarranted.

She also fired her spokesman, veteran publicist Elliot Mintz, whom she blamed for getting her into the mess.

Visibly shocked and tearful, the 26-year-old socialite was sentenced to 45 days in a suburban Los Angeles jail after a judge ruled she knowingly violated her probation on a previous traffic offense by driving without a valid license.

At the hearing, Hilton said Mintz had told her she was permitted to drive for work-related reasons. But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer rejected her claims and ordered her to turn herself in by June 5.

"I told the truth," Hilton told photographers waiting outside her Los Angeles home on Saturday night.

"I feel that I was treated unfairly and that the sentence is both cruel and unwarranted. I don't deserve this."

Her lawyer, Howard Weitzman, has said he will appeal "to modify the sentence."

Mintz, whose clients have included John

The making of Mecedez Benz

Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson is the most successful manager in British football history – winning 18 major trophies during his time in charge of the Reds. Yet despite almost two decades at the Old Trafford helm he remains focused on increasing that tally, bringing yet more silverware to Manchester United.

The Reds boss enjoyed a playing career north of the border that saw him take in spells with Queen's Park, St Johnstone, Dunfermline, Glasgow Rangers, Falkirk and Ayr United. But it is not for his playing of the game that Sir Alex was to become a success.

Following a spell out of the game he moved into coaching, taking up the role of manager of East Stirlingshire, St Mirren then Aberdeen. It was his time at Pittodrie where he earned his reputation as a top coach. He broke the Glasgow dominance of Scottish football to lead Aberdeen to three Scottish titles, four Scottish cups, one League Cup and one European Cup Winners’ Cup.

Following the sacking of Ron Atkinson as manager of Manchester United, the Old Trafford hierarchy moved quickly for his services. They got their man on 6 November 1986.

Ferguson inherited a dispirited team of underachievers who had consistently, to their supporters’ discontent, failed to break Liverpool’s domination. Stuck in the bottom four of the Division One table, Ferguson immediately set about attempting to stave off the very real threat of relegation. Without resorting to the transfer market, he guided United up the table to and eleventh place finish.

By now it was clear to Ferguson that he faced a major job in turning the club around. United were an entertaining side but one that seemed unable to cope with the more physical aspects of League football. In his second season the Reds fared better finishing second behind Liverpool, but the position painted a false picture. The
turning point came in the 1989/90 season.

Following a run of games in which the Reds were drawn away in every round, United picked up their first silverware of the Ferguson era. Lee Martin scoring the only goal in a final replay against Crystal Palace to in the FA Cup.

This first trophy opened the flood gates. The European Cup Winners’ Cup was won the following season in Rotterdam, Barcelona defeated 2-1 thanks to a brace from Mark Hughes. Then in 1991/02 the League Cup was added to United’s list of honours.

Sadly the title remained elusive. It was the Holy Grail to United fans, the 26 championships free years being exacerbated by Liverpool’s dominance of the domestic and European game.

In 1992/93 the long wait for the League championship came to an end. The Reds, inspired by £1m signing Eric Cantona, pipping Aston Villa in the final weeks of the season.

The shackles were broken: the double followed in 1993/94, the double-Double (with ‘kids’) in 1995/96, and another title in 1997. Finally United were matching off-field might with on-field success. Liverpool’s dominance was well and truly over.

Sir Alex’s greatest achievement came in 1998/99. No side before or since has achieved a treble haul of Premiership title, FA Cup and European Cup. On an unforgettable night in Barcelona his decision to throw on substitutes Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer assured history was made. The pair scoring injury-time goals to win the Champions League and complete the treble.

Ferguson was knighted following that success and some suggested he should retire, believing his desire would wane following the realisation of a dream. Not a bit of it. Another title followed in 1999/2000 and he made it three-in-row in 2000/01. His eighth
Premiership duly arrived in 2002/03; his fourth FA Cup a year later came against Millwall in Cardiff.

The Reds had by now entered a period of rebuilding. The side of homegrown players he’d first put together in 1995/96 was now breaking up and he’d recruited new stars like Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo, brought in to spark a new era of success.

Sir Alex believes that the Carling Cup win of 2005/06 – where the Reds beat Wigan Athletic 4-0 - may well provide the catalyst for a new era of success. And whilst Chelsea may well be the dominant force in the transfer market, Sir remains as hungry as ever for more silverware.

So hungry in fact, that he has put on hold plans for retirement and has set his sights on making Manchester United English football’s - and Europe’s - premier force again.