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title: "Manchester United players as… Pokemon!"
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published: "2016-07-14T14:51:04Z"
modified: "2016-07-15T19:58:15Z"
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# Manchester United players as… Pokemon!

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past week or so, you’ll know that Pokemon Go has been released as a mobile phone application.

This app, developed by Niantic and published by The Pokemon Company, is a location-based augmented reality game – in other words, you get to “see” Pokemon in the real world, through your phone’s camera – and catch them and train them as you would on any Nintendo console.

With the whole world going mad for it, to a point where Nintendo’s share price has risen dramatically, we thought we’d tie Pokemon Go in with our beloved players at Manchester United – by associating them through characteristics and playing style.

Using only Pokemon from Generation 1 so as to keep them easy to recognise, here is a starting eleven, detailing which Pokemon each of your favourite United players would be…

*\*click on the hyperlinks in each slide if you’re not sure which Pokemon is being described\**