MwafrikaHalisi
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- Oct 12, 2011
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Worst complaint ever Sir Alex Ferguson
"They gave us four minutes [of stoppage time], that's an insult
to the game," said Sir Alex Ferguson after Manchester United's 3-2 loss to Tottenham.
Yes, you read that correctly. "...said Sir Alex Ferguson". THAT Sir Alex Ferguson. Complaining about a lack of injury time. An insult to the game? To our collective intelligences, more like. On football's grand scale of hypocrisy, this is as if Jamie Redknapp were to pedantically pick holes in an ITV commentator's simile. Imagine Roman Abramovich protesting that Manchester City spend too much on transfers. Or Arsene Wenger having a go at an opposing manager for fielding too many young players in the League Cup. Or Tito Vilanova criticising a refereeing decision going against Barcelona oh wait, that actually happened too! Jesus wept.
United were certainly pushing hard for an equaliser but, the state in which they were at the end of the game, it is hard to see just how they would have profited from an extra 60 seconds for Nani to blast another rocket-propelled shot into Row Z. Does the red-faced grumbler remember that time in 2009 when Michael Owen scored a 96th-minute winner against Manchester City when four minutes of added time had been signalled? Because that at least surely earned a good 10 years of not being allowed to moan when something similar (and, in this case, not even as bad) happens to you.
MTW has some tactical advice for you, Sir Alex. Perhaps if you put out a team who started playing in the first minute rather than the 46th, you wouldn't need to rely on your ubiquitous 'Fergie Time'.
"They gave us four minutes [of stoppage time], that's an insult
to the game," said Sir Alex Ferguson after Manchester United's 3-2 loss to Tottenham.
Yes, you read that correctly. "...said Sir Alex Ferguson". THAT Sir Alex Ferguson. Complaining about a lack of injury time. An insult to the game? To our collective intelligences, more like. On football's grand scale of hypocrisy, this is as if Jamie Redknapp were to pedantically pick holes in an ITV commentator's simile. Imagine Roman Abramovich protesting that Manchester City spend too much on transfers. Or Arsene Wenger having a go at an opposing manager for fielding too many young players in the League Cup. Or Tito Vilanova criticising a refereeing decision going against Barcelona oh wait, that actually happened too! Jesus wept.
United were certainly pushing hard for an equaliser but, the state in which they were at the end of the game, it is hard to see just how they would have profited from an extra 60 seconds for Nani to blast another rocket-propelled shot into Row Z. Does the red-faced grumbler remember that time in 2009 when Michael Owen scored a 96th-minute winner against Manchester City when four minutes of added time had been signalled? Because that at least surely earned a good 10 years of not being allowed to moan when something similar (and, in this case, not even as bad) happens to you.
MTW has some tactical advice for you, Sir Alex. Perhaps if you put out a team who started playing in the first minute rather than the 46th, you wouldn't need to rely on your ubiquitous 'Fergie Time'.
