I think the Arsenal invincibles hurt him more. I'm sure i read quotes in the papers from Beckham stating that this was something they hoped to achieve. I don't think he would have said this without Fergusons ok. As it is i don't think Ferguson would trade an invincible or 100 pt season for domination over the league for 2 decades.
Think as you wish, IMO it’s nonsense.
City broke about twenty records (sic) last season, many of them created in uniteds dominant period and many long before their dominance.
Mancini came along and stood up to the bullying win at all costs hypocrite, if you think that didn’t get to him, you’re pissed.
He had already quoted the ‘noisy neighbours’ and ‘not in my lifetime’ shit, so Mancini keeping good to his word and breaking that dominance showed ferguson for the egotistical idiot his words deserved.
As for you saying ferguson drove Mancini out and ‘won the war’, pathetic nonsense.
After the title win, Mancini had not been able to get the players he wanted for City (Van Persie being one of them) and more importantly lost the City dressing room due to his own arrogance (personally loved Mancini) and that is why Mancini left, not because ferguson won the league that year.
As for ferguson ‘winning the war’, his own win at all costs and arrogance led him to buy Van Persie and not the actual players he needed to address the problems the united team actually should of been looking at to meet the ongoing challenge City had presented them.
This in turn led him to retire with the one more title he wanted to placate his own ego, and in turn has led them to 4/5 managers and more than half a billion spent and despite a couple of league 2nd places, they have been miles of each Premier winning team since.
They still look nowhere near winning the league and are currently competing for the fourth place trophy left vacant by Arsenal, the new united way.
Six years and counting since ferguson placated his ego, and united are still spending and still changing managers. City have won two more Premier leagues since and are currently fighting for every trophy available and we are in April almost, united have an outside chance in the Champions league and the fourth place trophy.
Winning the war, what utter bollocks.