Sir Alex Ferguson has finally confirmed what every Manchester United fan already knew: his worst signing ever was Ralph Milne.
Speaking at a League Managers Association dinner to honour the 14 surviving coaches who have presided over 1,000-plus league games, Ferguson admitted that Milne, who moved to Old Trafford in November 1988 from Third Division Bristol City, was top of his list of transfer regrets.
"My worst signing? Ralph Milne. I only paid £170,000 but I still get condemned for it."
The case against Ferguson lacks perspective. It is like hounding Barack Obama for double-parking outside the White House. The FA must see the bigger picture with Ferguson.
This is an individual whose managerial feats have been worth tens of millions of pounds to his rivals, raising the Premier League's coefficient to permit a fourth side into the Champions League.
Another well written piece by Henry Winter.
One of the things I noticed whilst watching 'Match Of The Day' on Saturday, still both smug and relieved following the afternoon’s win, was the hard work the Premier League title contenders made of their respective fixtures.
I haven't seen a lot of Tosic and it appears from a lot of accounts that he isn't really setting the reserves on fire. I'll reserve judgment till he's been given a consistent run in the first team. It's a tough league to play in and there's no better judge than Fergie on assessing when he's ready to step up.“The difficulty was around what we should do with Owen Hargreaves, whether or not to put him or Zoran in the squad. The other player [who narrowly missed out] was Ritchie De Laet.
“We came down on the side of Hargreaves because, having taken the medical advice, we think he’ll be available for the last three Champions League group-stage games.”
“He’s such a versatile player who can perform in so many positions, so he could be a very important player for us at that time of the season. That was the reason [we included him ahead of others in the European squad].”
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Same old Arsenal. Moaning and whining and blaming instead of getting on with it. It was a game they didn't deserve to lose perhaps. But it happens in sports. Move on. This siege mentality of "The whole universe is conspiring against us" is really getting boring. If Wenger and co. would focus on the deficiencies of their team(and there are plenty) they would have won a bit in the last five years. Instead, everyone associated with Arsenal seems to be whining and moaning about everything else. Perhaps it was the ref who pressurized Diaby to score an own goal? And it was a cosmic conspiracy that led Almunia to take out Rooney in the box?
Calling United's approach "Anti-football" is the worst BS I've heard in a while - Wenger has outdone himself on this one. I have no sympathy for him or his team. Eduardo dived and faces a 2 game ban. 3 days later Eboue bettered it with an Oscar winning attempt and yet he has the balls to talk about other teams and their ethics. Disgraceful. You lost - now just take it and get the fuck on with it.
Convenient now, isn't it? When your players are diving and cheating, simply come up with BS and say diving is not the problem (coz we are doing it), it's the players who play with heart that's the problem. Unbelievable! It's alway been the problem with Arsene Wenger and his teams and this is perhaps why they've won nada for all these years. Good for them."I have seen a player who plays on the pitch only to make fouls," he said. "For me, this is a point that is more urgent than diving. The players who are never punished, who get out of the game without a yellow card. I think it is more anti-football than a player who did what Eduardo did.Look at how many deliberate fouls some players get away with. That's a bigger problem because it cuts the flow of the game. And people pay to see football, not free-kicks."
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