I can't help feeling that somehow it has all been engineered by Rafa Benitez as part of a long-term black ops campaign to undermine Manchester United. If so, well done Rafa. You have won.
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It's pretty spot on... Though the sour one would be a disaster for them - 2 more years of success and then he'd be off, leaving them with 30 year old players on huge contracts and a squad split down the middle...Originally posted by Shaggy View Post
... The more I think about it, I hope Jose gets the job... Speculate to accumulate on their misery long term!
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Is there is a song? ****ing hell!Originally posted by Shaggy View PostThat White Pele song is an absolute embarrassment3rd place. Worst champions ever.
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It's a good point about longevity. Sure, a manager needs time when they take over but after two or three years it's an outcome of success, not an input..
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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It's their Rooney songOriginally posted by RoboKop View Post
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****s sake I aint listening to that- the lyrics are enough! FFS, all their songs are utter wank.
Always thought their Rooney song was the neanderthal "Roo-ney, Roo-ney" to the "tune" of "Ree-oh, Ree-oh"....3rd place. Worst champions ever.Comment
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"Its not about the long ball or the short ball, its about the right ball." Bob PaisleyComment
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An article about the fascist dictator Ferguson.
When Alex Ferguson gave ME the hairdryer: Mirror men recall being blasted by the retiring Manchester United manager
8 May 2013 22:30
"As soon as I saw his empurpled face and menacing walk, something told me he wasn’t about to congratulate me on my journalistic* prowess..."
Making a point: Fergie gave our David McDonnell a bumpy ride at Cologne airport Making a point: Fergie gave our David McDonnell a bumpy ride at Cologne airport
By David McDonnell
I was banned for three months by Alex Ferguson last season for having the temerity to write that the decision to bring Paul Scholes out of retirement was a regressive one from a manager universally regarded, despite his advancing years, as one of the most forward-thinking in football.
My refusal to apologise saw my ban prolonged, but when I wrote to Ferguson to ask why he continued to exclude me from his weekly briefings for merely having an opinion, the message came back via him that I had served my time and was allowed back in.
My first experience of the retiring Manchester United manager 's hairdryer came at Cologne airport in September 2002, ahead of a Champions* League group stage encounter with Bayer Leverkusen.
Having landed with Ferguson and the Old Trafford giants' squad, the daily-newspaper reporters were waiting by the baggage carousel, waiting for Ferguson to come over and give us his customary briefing.
As soon as I saw his empurpled face and his menacing walk, something told me he wasn’t about to congratulate me on my journalistic* prowess.
“You’re a f***ing disgrace,” was his opening gambit, before proceeding to tear into me over an unflattering piece I had written on Diego Forlan – who had taken 27 games to score his first United goal.
It proved the first of numerous skirmishes with Ferguson over the 12 years I have covered United.
He once chased me out of the Old Trafford* tunnel, where I had gone in search of Roy Keane after the then-United skipper had made his comeback from injury in a reserve game.
As I lurked near the dressing-room doors, Ferguson, his face a familiar shade of angry puce, spotted me.
“You know you’re not f***ing allowed down here,” he bellowed, bursting through double doors.
“F*** off!”, he continued to bawl, as I made a hasty retreat down to the mouth of the tunnel.
But there is a lighter side to him, too - none more so than a few years ago, when the Mirror reported a light aircraft flying low over United’s training ground, with the intention of spying on their tactics.
When I asked Fergie about the plane, the United boss burst into laughter.
“I saw you flying it,” he laughed, using his hands to impersonate a pair of flying goggles. “I could see you up there in your Biggles hat and goggles.
“Biggles McDonnell!* Biggles of the Mirror!”
"Don’t you f***ing write that f***ing s***e again or you’re f***ing banned..."
I had only been covering Manchester United for a few months when I got a blast from Fergie’s hairdryer, writes David Anderson.
I had gone down to the Cliff as usual one Friday morning in January 1998, ready for my often brief interview with him.
He beckoned me outside, saying: “David, can I have a word?”
By word, he meant rant and as soon as I’d stepped outside, he launched into a foul-mouth tirade, jabbing his finger in my face.
The cause of his fury was, what I thought, an innocuous reference in a runner to Peter Schmeichel being unavailable for a game a few weeks earlier because of personal reasons.
Fergie shouted: “You see that s***e you wrote about Peter Schmeichel? Don’t you f***ing write that f***ing s***e again or you’re f***ing banned, right. Do you hear me?”
Then with me still reeling, he cleared his throat and said: “Right, what do you want to ask me?”
He then proceeded to give me an exclusive line about Roy Keane’s return from his serious knee injury in what was probably the best interview he ever did for me.
Looking back, I can see it was Fergie’s way of letting me know who was boss.
It was only a medium setting on the hairdryer and if he was really angry, he would have torn a strip off me in front of my peers rather than spare my blushes by taking me outside.
"You have to speak to these f***ers in a f***ing language they f***ing understand!”
I was a young reporter on a local Manchester newspaper when Fergie arrived at Old Trafford, and I got a first hand view of that famous temper, writes David Maddock.
I was on the end of plenty of them down the years.
Perhaps the finest though, was when I became a unique footnote in his United history as the only journalist thrown out of a press conference... and refusing to go.
It happened at the old Cliff training ground when I dared to contradict him over something as mundane as the number of substitutes he’d just named.
The explosion was deafening, the language industrial as I was branded a “f***ing smart-a**e” and he tried to manhandle me out of the room.
I refused to go, a stand-off ensued, and eventually - amazingly - he backed down, snarling at me, “OK, you can stay, but don’t ask any f***ing questions.”
Being young and stupid, I asked the next one, and the response was a most magnificent example of swearing - enough to make even Malcolm Tucker in the Thick of It go flinch.
One more magnificent moment stands out.
Another press conference, also at the Cliff. This time in the early 1990s.
Fergie launched into another tirade of multi-coloured abuse, only to turn around and see a severely flustered young woman from a charity organisation staring at him in horror.
He blustered and blew, tried to control himself and then, as he chewed his words back in contrite apology, he suddenly spat out:
“I’m really sorry love... but you have to speak to these f***ers in a f***ing language they f***ing understand!”
Those were the days!
He looked me in the eye and said: “Aye. You can f*** off and die!”
Sports Editors from the national newspapers were invited to Old Trafford for a lunch to commemorate Sir Alex’s 1000th Premier League game in charge, writes Mirror Head of Sport Dean Morse.
Fergie was in convivial mood and took time to speak personally to all the guests and I was one of the last to have an audience.
The Mirror had a strained relationship with the club at the time, due to our serialisation of Jaap Stam’s controversial autobiography and a recent interview then-Mirror editor Piers Morgan had done in GQ magazine, in which he jokingly described Fergie as a bigger despot than Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.
I decided to clear the air with Sir Alex by asking him if there was one thing I could do to improve relations.
He looked me in the eye and said: “Aye. You can f*** off and die!”
I left soon afterwards.
Now click here to read another Mirror man recall how his first encounter with Fergie began with the words, "Who the f*** are you?"
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How someone hasn't belted the **** out of the old cunt is beyond me.Comment
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Someone with some balls should have laughed in his bacon face.Comment
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Good riddance to the horrible old cunt.
Can't help but feel Moyes will be a good appointment. Quite shrewd in fact, especially in the long term. The only thing stopping them is their fans, which as has been mentioned, if they turn on him they're ****ed. I'm not saying he's potentially the next Ferguson, but I do rate Moyes, but he won't be afforded any time at all. Should be interesting
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What a charming man.
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at the cross word.
I was in stitches reading that just now.Oh I don't know.Comment
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Originally posted by dom9 View Post at the cross word.
I was in stitches reading that just now.
Wonder what Wilfred Zaha is thinking at the minute now he will be working under Moyes
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What better time could there be to retire? fixed up for years to come.Originally posted by ashey View PostComment
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