Fergie sees Liverpool as real rivals

[KingDing]

Manchester City may have spent £120million on new players - but Sir Alex Ferguson will always regard Liverpool as Manchester United's true local rivals.

Not since 1968, when United won the European Cup and City finished top of the old Division One have Manchester's two giants met on anything like an equal footing.

But the pair go head to head at Old Trafford on Sunday with far more than bragging rights at stake.

United are looking for victory to enhance their chances of landing a record fourth consecutive title, while City bid to extend a four-match winning streak that will raise optimism about a sustained championship challenge.

However, while Ferguson is aware of the threat, after 23 years of dominance over City, his natural instinct remains to view the threat from Merseyside as more acute and dangerous.

"I don't know. I don't think so," replied Ferguson when asked whether the derby could one day be bigger than those titanic tussles with Liverpool.

"To me Liverpool will always be the derby game.

"It is just because of the history. When I came down here they were the king-pins of England. They had won four European Cups and quite a few league titles.

"My aim was to do well against them and to try and turn that round. It is hard for me to go against that history."

The United boss sent a few barbs in City's direction as he assessed Sunday's game, mainly in the assessment of what constitutes success for a club who have achieved so little for so long but now find themselves muscling their way onto the top table.

There is, though, one pretty significant irritation, in the shape of the provocative Carlos Tevez poster proclaiming: "Welcome to Manchester."

Ferguson was unhappy at the time when it went up at one end of Manchester's busy Deansgate shopping area, emphasising as it did City's claim to be the city's only club bearing in mind Old Trafford is outside the boundaries. It still irks him now.

"That stupid poster upset us," he said.

"It showed an arrogance. It was naughty. It showed a cockiness that wasn't required at the time because they hadn't done anything.

"The season hadn't even started."

Clearly, there is more to the irritation than losing a player who was integral to two championship wins and a couple of Champions League finals.

Ferguson stated in the summer a private belief that Tevez wasn't worth a figure in excess of £30million. To hear the suggestion City actually paid £47million is eye-watering.

"It doesn't bother me one bit whether Tevez is playing or not," said Ferguson.

"I know their best player won't be. Emmanuel Adebayor has been their star player. There is no question about that.

"He has scored in every game. That is their loss."

Even Ferguson was smiling when he described the contest as "small", knowing just how much attention will be focused on it, not just in Manchester and the north west of England, but worldwide.

Yet the words he has kept hearing about City relate to their ability to reach the top four, breaking, as it would, the cartel that has existed in England for too long.

Ferguson himself has no interest in the top four - only in being number one.

"The things City are doing don't particularly worry me," he said.

"What we concern ourselves with is winning the league.

"People talk about trying to get into the top four. That is not the question. The question is who is number one.

"Manchester City have been given the chance to be better than Manchester United.

"But when you spend that kind of money there is an expectation. The challenge has to be for them to try and win something, whether it is the league or the FA Cup.

"They will be expected to challenge for these trophies without doubt."

Just like I see the scum as rivals more than the blue shite.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

Fergie seems to have adopted some houlier than thou attitude whereby his opinion must be filtered down as fact to all levels of the game. He's a hypocritical cunt who can fuck off.

 

[ibromurph]

[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=35917.msg945860#msg945860 date=1253278142]
Fergie seems to have adopted some houlier than thou attitude whereby his opinion must be filtered down as fact to all levels of the game. He's a hypocritical cunt who can fuck off.
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+1.

His arrogance and hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me.

 

[Judge Jules]

I mainly blame the football authorities for that TBH. At least he's never tried to pretend he's anything other than a state-of-the-art cnut. What they've allowed him to get away with over the years, whether directly or through his players' behaviour on the pitch, is just unreal.

 

[spider-Neil]

[quote author=ibromurph link=topic=35917.msg945869#msg945869 date=1253279312]
[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=35917.msg945860#msg945860 date=1253278142]
Fergie seems to have adopted some houlier than thou attitude whereby his opinion must be filtered down as fact to all levels of the game. He's a hypocritical cunt who can fuck off.
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+1.

His arrogance and hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me.
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you mean he bulges his eyes and mumbles to himself? 😉

 

[Molbystwin]

[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=35917.msg945860#msg945860 date=1253278142]
Fergie seems to have adopted some houlier than thou attitude whereby his opinion must be filtered down as fact to all levels of the game. He's a hypocritical cunt who can fuck off.
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+2

In fact i find it amusing that Fergy and Wenger have been having a dig at Hughes in light of Adebayors nonsense last week and yet BOTH of them cunts are as blind as a bat when it comes to their own players....

Fuck Ferguson.

In last years attack by Rafa on United, Rafa may have finally ended up with egg on his face because they won and we didnt but the fact remains Rafa was spot on about one thing FAR too much respect is paid to that ginsoak cunt, by the press by the refs by the FA and the more people point that out and piss him off the better IMHO.

 

[Judge Jules]

I don't accept the myth peddled by the media that Rafa "ended up with egg on his face". His point was unrelated to who won or didn't win, and the fact that people ARE pointing Ferguson's behaviour out more is down to Rafa standing up and telling it like it is when nobody else had the balls to do so.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

Decisions certainly started going against the cunts after Rafa's "rant". Sadly we didn't capitalise.

 

[jimmy]

Never bothered to read beyond the title and the first few sentences.
Ferguson is is cunt, he plays silly mind games, which unfortunately work for him more often than not, as he normally wins. I hope Hughes manages to get one past him this time.

 

[Molbystwin]

[quote author=Judge Jules link=topic=35917.msg945900#msg945900 date=1253282088]
I don't accept the myth peddled by the media that Rafa "ended up with egg on his face". His point was unrelated to who won or didn't win, and the fact that people ARE pointing Ferguson's behaviour out more is down to Rafa standing up and telling it like it is when nobody else had the balls to do so.
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sorry jules you are quite correct, i didnt think he did either i think it was just painted that way by the media, thankfully they shut the fuck up when it became apparent that in fact we had the beating off the cunts.

Can't really argue with 4-1

sadly fergie won the league however.

 

[Skullflower]

"It showed a cockiness that wasn't required at the time because they hadn't done anything.


good sentence.

 

[Dreambeliever]

He's got one thing right.

Number 1 is all that counts at seasons end.