Category: Sir Alex Ferguson

…Without Any Tears

HELLO dear reader and a happy new year (in a few hours) to you. Let’s hope it’s a good one!

As we are about to bid farewell to 2012 and hello to the year that will see us hopefully crowned as Champions once again, I sat and thought of this period in seasons gone by. You can tell an awful lot by this stage, the team in first place at the end of the year blah blah blah, that is true but I mean more about the messages coming out from Old Trafford in thought and word and deed. Statistics will tell you so much, but the messages and the feeling you get from the team at this time of year tells you more…

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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F.E.R.G.I.E That fucking spells Boss to me!

THE  festive period always throws up a few issues, it’s a testing time for the men in the hot seats at football clubs up and down the country. For some, (Mark Hughes, Arsene Wenger) the challenge didn’t wait for Christmas to arrive but in the most part it’s this time of year that will show you where you are going, what you need to do to get there and what kind of character you have to see it through to the end in May. If you have seen the film ‘Looking for Eric’, this is the part where you should imagine Eric Cantona stood in front of them all.. From your balls!

I look at the challenges approaching Harry Redknapp, who was so very wanted at QPR, and Rafa Benitez, who was so very unwanted at Chelsea and I say thank FUCK we have Fergie.

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How Was it For You?

THE  Christmas turkey is gone, the sprout effort is gone for another year and you may even be back at work. You may have been left asking ‘Is that all there is?’ in real life, but in the football world, where things really count, there were enough events this week to keep you on your toes. Yes, friends, as the family board games came out, Manchester United’s own trivial pursuit of silverware stalled at Swansea, was back on track at the end of Boxing Day and received a charitable donation from the Stadium of Light. Our own wise man, Sir Alex will hope it leads to the title and you have to say it’s good to be top as we head to New Year.

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