http://www.tsn.ca/soccer/news_story.asp?id=76875
CHICAGO (Ticker) - Manchester United will again be part of a summer tour of North America.
The Premiership power and Champions World, a New Jersey-based promotions company, on Thursday unveiled plans for a series of games to take place in the United States and Canada and include seven major international clubs.
Manchester United made a similar tour of the United States in the summer of 2003 that generated over $20 million in revenue.
Premiership teams Liverpool and Chelsea, top Scottish club Glasgow Celtic, Italian powers AC Milan and AS Roma and perennial German power Bayern Munich also will be part of the tour.
Manchester United will play Bayern on July 25 in Chicago, Celtic on July 28 in Philadelphia (Shug?) and AC Milan on July 31 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The first game of the series is Chelsea against Celtic on July 24 in Seattle (Shug will be so happy :p ) . The series concludes August 3 in East Rutherford when Roma meets Liverpool.
East Hartford, Connecticut, Pittsburgh and Toronto also will host games while Los Angeles has been dropped as a venue.
Champions World will install grass surfaces at those venues with artificial turf, such as SkyDome in Toronto and Giants Stadium in New Jersey.
Gotta say that as of now, I'll still go up to Seattle for that match, it'll be nice to see the Celtic faithful in force (the scene at Kells last year still makes me smile).