Live: Awards Night 2008

The polls are closed, the votes are counted. All that remains is to reveal who the Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year is for 2008.The prestigious award will be one of several trophies presented to United players at a special evening on Sunday 11 May. The event is sold out but you can still watch it live thanks to MUTV and MUTV Online. will be free to air, meaning all cable and satellite TV viewers in the UK and Ireland can watch the ceremony without subscribing to the channel.subscribers will also be able to watch the presentations - the club's official broadband service will stream MUTV's coverage live on the night. are priced from just £3.50 per month.The Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year, Goal of the Season and Denzil Haroun Reserve Player of the Year have all been decided by fans voting on ManUtd.com between 1 and 30 April.Other awards being presented on the night will include the Players' Player of the Year and the Jimmy Murphy Young Player of the Year.

Papers: Rooney to Return?

Roon’s fit for crunch
Wayne Rooney will be back to help Manchester United gun for the Premier League crown on Sunday. The Old Trafford star came through a tough session at their Carrington training ground yesterday and is available for the final-day trip to Wigan. Striker Roo was feared to have suffered a hernia, but a United insider said: “There was nothing Wayne could not do. He was whizzing around and flying into tackles. Not once did he wince. He’s a tough cookie and this is not going to keep him out.”
Phil Thomas, The Sun
The Sun also claim Nemanja Vidic has declared himself fit to face Wigan on Sunday after sitting out the Reds’ last two matches with concussion.In Moscow, the grass pitch, grown specifically to replace the artificial surface at the Luzhniki Stadium for the Champions League final, had to be ripped up almost as soon as it was laid, the Daily Mail reports. Another pitch has been bought from Slovakia at a cost of £160,000 and was hastily imported last week.In transfer news, the Daily Express claim Sir Alex has his eye on Dutch striker Klass-Jan Huntelaar. The 24-year-old currently plies his trade for Ajax in the Eredivisie.

The Reluctant Hero

While a host of jubilant United players stopped to address the world's media after Tuesday night's Champions League victory over Barcelona, there was no sign of match winner Paul Scholes.Having scored the tie-settling goal against the Catalan giants, the softly-spoken midfielder typically shunned the limelight and disappeared to be with his family after the final whistle.His team-mates, however, were more than happy to heap praise on Scholes, who now seems guaranteed to start a Champions League final after missing the 1999 final through suspension."You could see his reaction, it was a big relief for him," Mikael Silvestre told MUTV. "He wasn’t involved in ’99, but now he is taking the team with him to Moscow. It’s good for him, he fully deserves it. He is a great professional. He is a local lad so it means a lot to him."Scholes swung the tie in United's favour with a scorching 25-yard drive which faded into the top corner of Victor Valdes' goal, and his colleagues were far from surprised by the moment of brilliance."I was talking to Patrice Evra about Scholesy in training before the game," said Ji-sung Park. "He was unbelievable. We said that he would do something big in the game and he did.""It was a great goal, unbelievable," added Wes Brown. "I’m just glad it was Scholesy, he deserves it. He’s got us into the final."