The Welcome To Manchester Banner Really Got To Fergie

[petrusha]

Seriously! Is he for real?

The day Manchester City won the Premier League, Sir Alex Ferguson’s wife Cathy told him it was the worst day of her life. ‘I can’t take much more of this,’ she said.

Ferguson writes that his wife would not leave home for fear of bumping into City supporters. He talks of Manchester United’s 6-1 defeat by City as a ‘farce’ and claims - rather bizarrely - that United ‘battered’ City for 40 minutes.

As I recall they dominated possession and territorially for just over 20 minutes from the start of the game until Balo scored, but that assertion is laughable. They didn't manage to threaten our goal seriously at all while they were on top and as soon as we went ahead we started to control the game. (When we beat Huddersfield 10-1, they posed us far more of a threat early in the match than the Rags did in the 6-1.)

Ferguson is so used to the football world not questioning what he says that he thinks he can rewrite history.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

When we beat Huddersfield 10-1, they posed us far more of a threat early in the match than the Rags did in the 6-1.)

I remember turning to my mate at half time in the 10-1 and guaranteeing him that whenever teams scored more than three in the first half, the second half was always a drab affair and that we may as well go home!

As to the 6-1 I'd say things were pretty even up to Mario scoring. I don't recall having my heart in my mouth at any point prior, as I sat among the tourists.

 

[petrusha]

When we beat Huddersfield 10-1, they posed us far more of a threat early in the match than the Rags did in the 6-1.)

I remember turning to my mate at half time in the 10-1 and guaranteeing him that whenever teams scored more than three in the first half, the second half was always a drab affair and that we may as well go home!

As to the 6-1 I'd say things were pretty even up to Mario scoring. I don't recall having my heart in my mouth at any point prior, as I sat among the tourists.

I may be mistaken but my memory of watching it on a dodgy stream was that they were having the better of it without ever looking very much like scoring and we got the opening goal from the first decent move we put together. Unlike the semi final at Wembley six months previously, where we definitely deserved to win in the end but they forced a great save from Joe and Berbatov missed a sitter quite early in the game. My memory could be deceiving me though.

As for the 10-1 - I was at college down south and listening to Radio Two as it used to be for Saturday sport in those days. When I heard it was 4-0 at HT, I thought we'd take our foot of the gas as teams so often do and that it would end 5-1 or something. (Many games followed that pattern in the 2001/2 promotion season under Keegan.)

 

[Berkovic_blue]

Hated him during his time as manager but total respect to him for his achievements and the fact he hated us , that's what we want not a big love in.
PS I'll bet 90% of this forum read his book. It's obviously already of interest

Total shite, I'll bet any amount that they don't.

 

[King Geedorah]

Did he really knock us off our new perch?

We just had a poor year.

 

[bluevengence]

The bitter **** says in his book that "they paid £18mill for Tevez and got nothing back"....yea righto Taggart

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[Smithy34]

can't we put another one up....big picture of baconface with the slogan - Good Riddance from Manchester : )

 

[oakiecokie]

He`s also saying we should have sacked Tevez for his misdemeanours.

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

As I said it was just a debate with fans of Everton and scum. I didn't say he wasn't a great motivator etc, the debate was about large slices of luck, timing etc that is unlikely to repeated in the future.

There is a poster on here, Damocles, who once wrote a semi-essay on here about why Manchester United are not a great club. It was fairly convincing (to me anyway!) And part of it did acknowledge OPN's achievements but also pointed out some of the contributory factors that aided his success which he couldn't take credit for such as the emergence of a youth team full of quality players, the timing of sky money etc.

Anyway, happy sick swan day

 

[stony]

He`s also saying we should have sacked Tevez for his misdemeanours.

He is a very bitter man. When Tevez chose us, it hurt him badly. "Welcome to Manchester" poured salt into the wounds.
He isn't gracious enough to praise Mancini without having a dig, it just isn't in his nature to be nice.
He's simply using Tevez to have a pop at Mancini because he knows he was matched on the pitch and this is the only thing he can use to have a pop at him.
He's a bitter hypocrite, if he was that concerned about player loyalty, why didn't he fuck Rooney off ?
Hateful, spiteful, bitter man.