Football

[DVL418]

RE: 2012/13 Football Season

(07/03/2013 12:18)507009 Wrote:  

(07/03/2013 09:28)DVL418 Wrote:  Of course no other manager has every got his hair off at the performance of the match officials, has he?

No other manager does it with anything like the regularity and predictability as Ferguson. I think you'll find the so-called judgement of Ferguson is alive and well across the country, certainly not just on Merseyside. Few are condoning his behaviour whether they agree with Nani's red card or not.

He might be the most successful manager, but you can't buy class and Ferguson has little.

'Class' (whatever that means in this context) versus a twenty year procession of trophies? I know what most supporters would choose, me included for my team. Anyway, expecting an objective assement of an individual's career from supporters of other clubs, and not always the most objective, is a waste of breath.

However, one rarely reads anything significant that is negative (other than Benitez's laughable rant the other other year) from other managers about him. Even Wenger seems to like him these days after their long-running feud was forgotten.

Reading articles and autobiographies of former players of Ferguson's is that their opinion of him also seems to be generally very positive. Even Japp Stam now admits Ferguson was right to unload him, despite being one of the best players in European football at the time.