Talking Reds users are expected to follow these rules at all times. If you breach the rules, you could be warned, suspended or - if the breach is serious or continual - be permanently banned from using this message board.

The rules are for the protection of all users and can be viewed yourself by pressing the FAQ option on the menubar at the top of forum page. The FAQ is a simplified version of the Forum Terms that can be viewed here - http://community.manutd.com/forums/terms.aspx -which all members agree to abide by when signing up to the messageboard.

Rule 1: Swearing and derogatory or defamatory remarks Swearing or the use of language which is obscene, threatening, sexual, sexist, libellous, defamatory, or invasive of another person's privacy is not allowed. Any attempt to swear by misspelling or including **** or other characters is not allowed. Also you may not post messages containing language or topics that are considered risqué as defined above.

Rule 2: Expressions of hatred Expressions of hatred towards racial, ethnic, national, religious or other groups including those pertaining to sexual orientation. You cannot post messages which demonstrate any bias or prejudice as defined above.

Rule 3: Promoting illegal activities Discussions that encourage, promote or provide information about illegal or criminal activities (including pornography, explosives, weapons, d.rugs, programming viruses, computer hacking and copyright infringement).You cannot post messages which promote illegal acts as defined above. You may also not accuse others, including celebrities, players etc of any illegal or unlawful act, including reproducing such allegations printed publicly on the world wide web, prior to such allegations being proven in a court of law.

Rule 4: Banned website links Posting of addresses for websites that contain content that is banned from our message board by these rules.If a website that you link to in your message contains material that breaches one or more of our rules then you will be held responsible for that.

Examples of websites that you must not link to:Websites that allow you to reveal or share your contact details Websites that contain message boards, guest books etc Personal web sites that contain your contact information Posting links to copyright infringement materials like video Posting links to any organisation involved in commercial or stock and share activity

Rule 5: Intellectual property rights Posting material that infringes a third party's intellectual property rights or any other rights is not allowed. Your message must not include other people's materials (written, photographic, video etc) that you do not have permission to reproduce. This includes video clips from matches which clearly are copied from authorised TV broadcasts.

Rule 6: Exchanging personal contact information Exchange of user telephone numbers, emails or addresses, IP numbers is not allowed.You cannot post any contact details on the message board nor make any attempt to contact or meet each other. Any attempt to do so is taken very seriously. This is for your own safety and to protect other users, particularly those under 18, from acting under peer pressure.

Rule 7: Harassing other users Harassing or intentionally provoking other users, either privately or in a public forum, is not tolerated.

Rule 8: Impersonation Impersonating our staff or any celebrities or characters is not allowed. You cannot make claims or use alias names that insinuate that you are a celebrity or a member of staff of either the Club or the message board.

Rule 9: Potential disruption Actions that would disrupt or impair the functioning, stability or security of the message board are not allowed. This includes both actions related to the technical security of the site (an attempt to hack for example) and posting messages which are interpreted as attempts to disrupt the community.

Rule 10: Unauthorised commercial content The posting of message and links for the purpose of advertising a commercial venture and/or to any membership or other scheme where a fee or any monies change hands is not allowed.

Rule 11: Promoting stocks and shares This is the posting of messages and links for the purpose of advertising or given any advice towards the buying and/or selling of any stock and shares, pyramid schemes, or other financial services is not allowed.

Rule 12: Rival fans Rival fans are welcome to post messages on the board but they must not deliberately antagonise United fans. Any breach of this rule by a rival fan is likely to result in their being banned from the board.

Rule 13: Different languages There are separate message boards for the English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese versions of the official Manchester United website.

Languages must not be mixed on these boards - for example, Japanese messages are not permitted on the Korean board. The moderation team and users on each message board can only be expected to read and understand their own language.

Links to websites in different languages are not permitted on the message boards.

Rule 14: Invading rival boards You cannot discuss invading rival message boards. This is to protect the integrity of this message board. Such behaviour brings this board into disrepute.

Can I post my contact details on the board? No

Can I post messages in another language on the board? No - There are separate boards for the English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese versions of the official Manchester United website. Languages must not be mixed on these boards - for example, Japanese text is not permitted on the Korean board.

Can I post links to other message boards? No

Can I post links to other sites? Yes but the other sites' content must not be offensive.

Can I post links to video clips of players, goals etc? Only if the clips are on the official websites of the copyright holder, eg MUTV Online, UEFA.com, BBC.co.uk.

Can I use the board to advertise a company or product? No

Can I use the board to sell my own stuff? No

Can I use abbreviated text, for example like mobile phone text talk? No

Can I criticise other message board users, players, coaches etc? Only if your criticism is constructive. Personal insults are NOT permitted

Can I discuss media rumours? Yes, if the rumours are about football, for example transfer speculation. No, if the rumours are about people's, eg players' private lives.

Why are there so many rules? The message board is open to people of all ages, so there are stringent rules for the protection and benefit of all users. Also, this is the official Manchester United message board and its content must not damage the Club's reputation. The Club has set the rules and expects the users to follow them and the moderators to enforce them.

Do the moderators read and check through all of the content posted to the boards? No, the moderators only read the postings that the community members alert them to using the ‘report abuse' link, so if you do see something that offends you, or that breaks the rules in some way, you must alert the moderators if you think it should be removed.

Sub - Forums:

The message board is split into a number of sub-forums for different discussion subjects. Please ensure that you post your topics in the right sub-forum. Any threads that the forum moderators consider to have been posted in the incorrect forum will be moved to its correct forum and if applicable merged with an existing thread on the same subject. Any threads opened by members to ask where a thread has gone will be deleted automatically.

The sub-forums on Talking Reds are:

Transfer Speculation: News about players that have been linked or you think would improve the squad.

General United Discussion: This is for all the latest news to do with Manchester United.

The Opposition & Internationals: News about United's opponents.

Fixtures & Results: Discussions about upcoming fixtures and analysis of previous results.

Fanzone: Fun, games and anything else you may wish to discuss!

Players & Staff: Discussions about current players and staff at the club.

United Legends: Great players past and present who have played for the Club

Feedback & Queries: Feedback and queries for the Admins and other members of the board

Munich Remembered: Memorial sub-forum remembering those who died in the Munich disaster and their families.

Talking Reds Improvements: Your ideas on how the Forum could be improved.

Some of the sub-forums will have their own forum specific rules relating to the posting of threads and these can be found by visiting the Forum Rules thread in each forum.

The Forum Moderators can be recognised by the moderator badge (shown below) placed under their avatar.

There are two groups of forum moderators. The first group consists of the moderators employed either by the forum hosting company or by Manchester United directly. The second group are comprised of members from the Talking Reds community who have been invited to fulfil the moderator role directly by the club. At the moment these ‘volunteer' moderators are:

Matt Cornejo

Red Irish

Gavinio

Both groups are responsible for ensuring that the forum rules, as detailed above, are adhered to. They will do this by either intervening when necessary directly in threads when browsing the forums or in response to breaches reported via the ‘Report' button (which is located on the bottom left of every post made on the forum).

The ‘Report' button can be used by any Talking Reds member to highlight any breaking of the rules. Please DO NOT use the ‘Report' button to report a user's message that you simply disagree with i.e. a user says they do not like a player and you disagree with their view! There is also no need to report a post simply because it is a duplicate of an existing thread or if it has been posted in the wrong forum. Misuse of the ‘Report' button could lead to posting rights being withdrawn.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post.