Usain Bolt may play for Manchester United in charity game

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Usain Bolt and Sir Alex Ferguson

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says sprint legend Usain Bolt could play for the club in a charity match next year.

Six-time Olympic champion Bolt, 26, has joked he wants a trial at the club.

"It's interesting he says he'd like to play in a charity game," Ferguson told Inside United, the club's magazine.

"It could be brilliant and next year, when we play Real Madrid's Legends again, there could be opportunities to bring him up and see how he does."

Bolt, who won 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay gold at both London 2012 and Beijing 2008, is a big fan of the club and was paraded at Old Trafford before United's 3-2 win over Fulham.

The Jamaican sprinter called on supporters to convince Ferguson to sign him for the club as he showed off his London 2012 medals.

Bolt has previously attended United's Carrington training ground where he gave former player Cristiano Ronaldo tips on his sprinting.

"He's a bit of a character and a big United fan," Ferguson said.

"The people from these small islands, like Dwight Yorke from Trinidad & Tobago, they all play football and he probably played at school level or youth level or something like that. It'd be nice to get him up here, I think it'll be good."

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  • He'll be like Theo Walcott but just a bit better

  • Give the BBC a break. Its a quiet day for our national sport with not much happening because of the international break.

    Doing the rounds is this.. made me laugh anyway

    Journalist asks Rodgers "With all the summer transfers, how far are you from a good team?" Rodgers:"A mile if you cut through Stanley Park

  • Seems a bit of an odd story to allow comments on. Clearly part of a merchandise ploy, but should be excellent fun for charity.

    Good on Bolt and good on Fergie for allowing it. Shows how massive the club is when you have other superstars begging to play with their heroes!!

  • 10 Apacs - Er...what makes him different to other United fans? 9.58 seconds! We're talking about a great football club and a great athlete combining for charity, and if this "publicity stunt" bring in lots of money for charity, fantastic!

  • No prizes for guessing what Bolt's goal celebration will be...

  • 159 Bit harsh mate, especially as he is now a sir and been Utd's manager for over 20 years ;-)

  • Liverpool are hoping to get Andy Murray to play for them because they've seen he hits it into the net more often than their 'strikers' :-)))

  • This should happen, if only to give this arrogant, self-obsessed, money-grabbing egomaniac a chance to see how REAL asportsmen behave.

  • It's only a charity game!!! If Bolt playin for Man U v Real Madrid is going to sell tickets to raise money for charity then who in their right mind would object. The ABU brigade just love to hate. They put more passion into hating Man U than they do into loving their own club. Sad.

  • Bolt will make an excellent Goalkeeper

  • Another gimick to distract from the clubs demise....

  • Just put the ball over the top and bingo

  • If Bolt as an athlete can play for ManU, maybe SAF could reciprocate by allowing some divers to be included in an aquatics team. Sorry I cannot mention names!!!!! And maybe some other teams, no names, can request to play in a rugby team!!!

  • Well he certainly won't be any worse than Danny Wellbeck!! At least Bolt can try & run past Defenders!!!

  • In a charity match, why not. It will draw a lot of attention to whatever charity the game will be about, with all due respect a lot more than a bunch of football players from back when, and should bring a publicity boost to the club. Don't see any harm in it as far as United are concerned.

  • For God sake it's just a charity match! Where's the harm? Bolt is arguably the most famous sportsman in the world right now so no wonder Fergie has got him involved. Bolt already has a fine record of doing charity work too.

    Some of you also fail to appreciate that the EPL is a Global PL. It happened a long time ago, wake up and smell reality.

  • He's pretty tall - I wonder what he is like with his head? It would be pretty ironic if he was played as a target man.

    As for the anti comments - I am sure that United truly regret their universal appeal since the 1950s and wish instead that they were just an unknown gem supported solely by six-fingered banjo playing fans who had never ventured beyond a two mile radius of the club.

  • At least he has the right qualifications to be a Manchester United fan, i.e. he lives thousands of miles away from Manchester.

  • "Bolt, like so many man u 'fans' will be supporting Champions Manchester City in a couple of years"

    Now that really is a ridiculous thing to say!

  • 94

    it's ok bantering, but you have no reason to be so obsessed with utd as you are a forest fan. You must still reeling from the 8 - 1 in 1999 that helped send forest into the lower leagues

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