New Match - Manchester United
A message when MUTV puts the full match up. Never the score.
The newest one is Full 90: United v Villa, added 9 November.
For years I watched Manchester United through whichever Swedish broadcaster had the rights, and I missed a lot of it - kick-off has a way of landing in the middle of family life. The club's own channel was how I caught up, and somewhere along the line it stopped being second best.
Full 90 is the whole match as it happened, called by the club's own people: biased, warm, entirely on your side. That is the part a neutral broadcast cannot give you, whatever it costs. The big games I still watch live, and I go back to the club's version afterwards anyway, even knowing the result.
The trouble is getting to the replay without being told how it ends. MUTV puts Full 90 up some time after the final whistle - a few hours, the next day, occasionally two - and never says when. So I kept checking. And checking is how you run into the score you were trying to avoid.
That is why I built this for myself: a message when the replay is up, a link straight to it, and nothing else in it. Watching needs an MUTV subscription, about €10 a year as I write this, which is not much.
You get the title, the date and a link. Never the score, never the club's summary, never a thumbnail that gives the celebration away. And when the club puts the result in its own title or address, the line under it says so.
How to get told
The simplest way is a notification on this device, like the ones the club's app sends but with nothing in it. There is nothing to install and nothing to sign up for: your browser hands out an anonymous address, and that is all that is kept. Turn it off here and it is deleted.
On an iPhone or iPad, Apple only offers notifications once a site has been added to the home screen. It takes three taps:
- Tap the share button at the bottom of Safari.
- Choose Add to Home Screen.
- Open New Match from the home screen and turn notifications on there.
Reading this on a computer? The notification lands on whichever device you turn it on, so if you would rather have it on your phone, open newmatch.nu there and follow the steps it shows.
If a notification never turns up, the computer itself may be silencing the browser without the site being told. On a Mac that is System Settings → Notifications, where Chrome and Firefox each have one switch for the whole browser and Safari lists this site on its own. On a phone it rarely gets in the way.
Or by email, if that is where you keep things. One message per replay, nothing else ever, and an unsubscribe link in every one that works on the first click.
Or put this address into any RSS reader:
The latest
The date is the match day. The replay itself turns up later - the same evening, the next day, sometimes two.
- Full 90: United v Villaadded 9 November
- Full 90: United v Roma3 November
- Full 90: Chelsea v United31 October
- Full 90: United v Bournemouthadded 26 October
- Full 90: Como v Unitedadded 22 October
- Full 90: Leeds v United18 October
- Full 90: Atleti v Unitedadded 14 October
- Full 90: United v Spursadded 10 October
- Full 90: Fulham v Unitedadded 20 September
- Full 90: United v Brighton16 September
- Full 90: United v City13 September
- Full 90: United v Sabah10 September
- Full 90: Brighton v United25 May
- Full 90: United v Forest17 May
- Full 90: Sunderland v United9 May
- Full 90 replay: United v Liverpool3 MayThe club wrote the result into this one's own address, so it sits in the address bar once the page opens. What is on the page is clean.
- Full 90: Chelsea v United18 April
- Full 90: Bournemouth v United20 March
- Full 90: United v Villa15 March
- Full 90: Newcastle v United4 March
Want it live instead? The Premier League keeps a list of the official broadcaster in every country. This is for afterwards.