Marcus Rashford helped by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation in successful school meals fight

straight to your inboxHere are the Manchester United evening headlines for Sunday July 12.Fernandes: “Rashford is doing an amazing job”Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has not grabbed the headlines the same way as his team-mates have since the Premier League restart.While Bruno Fernandes, Paul Pogba, Mason Greenwood and Anthony Martial have received all the plaudits, Rashford has scored just once and assisted two goals.But Fernandes believes that Rashford’s impact goes far beyond his

straight to your inboxAndy Cole believes both Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford breaking the 20-goal-a-season milestone for Manchester United is long ‘overdue’. The pair both broke the milestone during United’s 5-2 victory against Bournemouth at Old Trafford last weekend.

straight to your inbox Ole Gunnar Solskjaer insists he is 'very happy' with Marcus Rashford's form for Manchester United even though he has gone five starts without a goal from open play. Rashford recovered from a double stress fracture to his back to line up for United against Tottenham last month and has kept his place in all five Premier League games since the season restarted.

straight to your inbox Former Manchester United frontman Dimitar Berbatov believes Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford can learn to get the best out of each other between now and the end of the season. Berbatov, like many, thinks United have something special in Greenwood, who reminds him of a young Cristiano Ronaldo.

straight to your inboxOle Gunnar Solskjaer believes Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford have developed into more reliable goalscorers due to more playing time at Manchester United.Martial and Rashford have been certain starters throughout the season following the sale of former number nine Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan, and the pair are both on 19 goals for United.Only six United partnerships have broken the 20-goal barrier in the same season during Martial's and Rashford's lifetime, and the duo

Marcus Rashford has said more than 3.7 million meals are now being supplied to vulnerable people during the pandemic, following on from his successful campaign to extend the government's free school meals scheme over summer.The 22-year-old Manchester United ace is working with national food charity Fareshare to feed vulnerable people during the coronavirus lockdown.Today, he took to Twitter to announce that the charity is now supplying 3.7 million meals each week."Thank you ALL for your

Longsight, Furqan Naeem knows more than most, the importance of free school meals.  Sometimes, it was the main meal he would look forward to in the day - knowing he'd get a full plate of food, a drink and a packet of crisps. So when a local lad from Wythenshawe named Marcus Rashford made history on Tuesday, it struck a chord with Furqan.

forcing the government into a U-turn over free school meal vouchers for vulnerable children over the summer holidays.

Red-faced health secretary Matt Hancock has said he may have had “Harry Potter on the mind” when he embarrassingly praised “Daniel Rashford” for his work on free school meals.England footballer Marcus Rashford led a campaign to extend the children’s food voucher scheme into the summer holidays, which forced a change in policy with a £120 million fund to feed 1.3 million children in England over the six-week break.Mr Hancock denied the Government had made a U-turn and told Sky News on Wednesday

MORE: Piers Morgan furious over Boris Johnson's claims about Marcus Rashford's campaign: details Marcus is the son of Robert and Melanie Rashford. He is extremely close with his mum, a former cashier, and in the wake of his victory, he paid an emotional tribute to Melanie.

Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has vowed to continue campaigning after his actions led the Government to reverse their decision over free school meals.On Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a U-turn over not extending the voucher system over the summer, announcing the launch of a new Covid Summer Food Fund to pay for lunches for all 1.3 million children on free meals in term for the duration of the holidays.Such a decision came after Rashford had written a passionate open

Manchester is a united city by backing Marcus Rashford’s successful fight to affect a government U-turn on child poverty.The Manchester United and England star won his campaign to extend the right to free school meals over the summer holidays to help kids who are suffering through poverty, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.The government did a U-turn after Rashford’s heartfelt letter struck a chord, although the Reds ace made it plain he will not give up his fight to make life better for

Wythenshawe.

Read today's top stories here“I think this is only going to be successful throughout the summer period so we’ve bought ourselves six weeks of time now to plan and figure out what’s next and keep taking steps forward,” said Rashford.“I don’t want this to be the end of it because there are definitely more steps that need to be taken.