Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Only real ones will remember Masters Football, the over-35s tournament for former pros hoping for one final moment in the limelight on Sky Sports in the early 2000s. Peter Beardsley’s performances in 2002 for Newcastle United were legendary, Jörg Albertz helped himself to a few more thunderb@stards for Rangers and how can we forget the vastly underrated Owen Coyle squealing “Coyle!” every time he took a shot. As they disappeared from our screens, charity fundraisers came to the fore. In Soccer Aid, Woody Harrelson being mobbed by Zinedine Zidane and Jens Lehmann after burying the winning penalty past England keeper Jamie Theakston for the Rest of the World XI was memorable, as was a certain tackle by future UK prime minister Boris Johnson on former Manchester City cult hero Maurizio Gaudino.As soon as I knew there was a chance to join Manchester United, I had to take the opportunity to sign for the club of my dreams; the team whose shirt I wore growing up” – Robbie Keane Bryan Mbeumo is psyched for the new season after joining the club he supported as a boy.Manchester United’s propensity to offload football talent (yesterday’s Football Daily) didn’t start today or yesterday. The following is an XI composed of players released during the 2014-15 season alone: Johnstone S, Keane M, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Anderson, Fletcher, Kagawa, Zaha, Hernández, Welbeck. Many would back that side of cast-offs against anything else put out by United since then” – Brian Broderick.Re: where the north starts (Football Daily letters passim). I would like to suggest that based on the membership of the National League North, then it starts at Bedford, because they were promoted into the league this season, even though Bedford is just 57 miles from the middle of London. Two seasons ago, Bishop’s Stortford were members of the league, and they’re based at the end of Stansted airport’s runway. They used to love midweek games in the north-east. To extend the discussion, Merthyr Tydfil are playing in National League North this season, so where does north Wales start?” – Ray Simpson.Regarding Jon Millard’s submission that ‘the north starts at Sheffield, indisputably, as did football, also undisputedly. I’d love to say this is the one thing Noble will agree with me on, but he’d probably email in and say it’s bloody Woodall, or something’ (yesterday’s letters). He’s clearly right on football, indisputably. The north is more complex. When I was young, we used to just say that Chesterfield was the dividing line but then we thought that Bob Holness played the sax on Baker Street (false) and that he was the first person to play James Bond (false, he was the second) so what did we know? The north is very south Sheffield and just above Chesterfield so you’re looking more at a broad line of Killamarsh, Eckington, Lowedges, Totley. And, yes, that line includes Woodall” – Noble Francis.I see that, according to Jason Wilcox, new signing Bryan Mbeumo is ‘the perfect fit for Manchester United and the culture that we are developing’. That’s rather harsh criticism, isn’t it, on the lad’s first day?” – Phil Taverner.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...