Managers baited by Fergie!
Sir Alex Ferguson is known to play mind games on rival managers. espnstar.com looks at the victims he claimed.
The Manchester United boss undoubtedly is the master of mind games.
Ferguson is the old master of such tactics and appears to have claimed a new victim in Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez.
The Spaniard launched an astonishing tirade at Ferguson - Benitez justifying his verbal onslaught because the Scot had been “talking too much about Liverpool . . . he has to stop”.
But with Liverpool's drab 0-0 draw with Stoke on Saturday, Benitez's all-out spat with Ferguson may have caused him valuable points. And this is not the first time the wily Ferguson has clashed with rival managers...
But with Liverpool's drab 0-0 draw with Stoke on Saturday, Benitez's all-out spat with Ferguson may have caused him valuable points. And this is not the first time the wily Ferguson has clashed with rival managers...
July 2008:
When Luiz Felipe Scolari was appointed as Chelsea manager, Ferguson asked whether the squad was too old to win the league. "I don't know how far that team has got to go. Maybe they've plateaued," he replied. Believe it or not, Big Phil's Blues outfit have not dominated the Premier League following a positive start, and if they lose at Old Trafford on Sunday, United will be a point behind them with two games to play.
When Luiz Felipe Scolari was appointed as Chelsea manager, Ferguson asked whether the squad was too old to win the league. "I don't know how far that team has got to go. Maybe they've plateaued," he replied. Believe it or not, Big Phil's Blues outfit have not dominated the Premier League following a positive start, and if they lose at Old Trafford on Sunday, United will be a point behind them with two games to play.
April 2003:
Fergie laughed off Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's proclamations that the Gunners can go through the season unbeaten. On the Frenchman's comments, the old master of mind battles said cryptically: "It might come back to haunt them." Well, it sure did. Arsenal's chase for the title collapsed and United clinch the trophy. But Wenger managed to achieve his bold claim the following season.
Fergie laughed off Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's proclamations that the Gunners can go through the season unbeaten. On the Frenchman's comments, the old master of mind battles said cryptically: "It might come back to haunt them." Well, it sure did. Arsenal's chase for the title collapsed and United clinch the trophy. But Wenger managed to achieve his bold claim the following season.
May 1996:
Newcastle were riding high in the Premier League and they looked unstoppable...until Ferguson started making a series of comments that other teams would be 'up' for matches against their title rivals. Well, Ferguson claimed his most famous, and of course, tearful victim, in then-Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan. He would go on to deliver his infamous 'I'd love it' rant live on television. Their challenge faded and United clinched the league.
Newcastle were riding high in the Premier League and they looked unstoppable...until Ferguson started making a series of comments that other teams would be 'up' for matches against their title rivals. Well, Ferguson claimed his most famous, and of course, tearful victim, in then-Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan. He would go on to deliver his infamous 'I'd love it' rant live on television. Their challenge faded and United clinched the league.
Source The INDEPENDENT sunday 11th Jan 2009.
ReplyDeleteMatches are decided by a computer, not a malevolent Premier League official who has it in for United, Liverpool or anyone else. They are then at the mercy of TV companies who pay millions of pounds for the privilege of making a team and their fans turn out at Portsmouth or Sunderland on a Saturday lunchtime after coming back from a Champions' League game in the Ukraine a couple of days earlier.
In the example Benitez gave, it was television, not Ferguson, decreeing that United played Middlesbrough on the Monday after Christmas and not the Sunday like Liverpool; or the Tuesday like Aston Villa. Swings and roundabouts.
Hahaha kumbe ndio hivyo eeh,sasa mbona itakuwa inaanza kufanya kazi maana jana STOKE CITY walibana ile mbaya,Benitez aangalie vizuri maana Wenger kamshangaa kwa kuongea juu ya FA kuwa hawamwadabishi Fergie,ye anadai wako Ok na kama kunatatizo basi ni bora aweke bayana wakati ule ule kama yeye alivyofanya na Aston Villa mwezi uliopita.
ReplyDeleteUkweli ukikaa kimya na kuzungumza baadae haisaidii kama utakavyozungumza tit4tat hapohapo.....
Leo ktk wanja la Old Trafford atakuwepo Jose Marihno meneja wa zamani wa Chelsea, of course atakuwa jukwaa la watazamaji. lakini wajuvi wa mambo wanasema hii itaongeza mashamushamu ya huu mpambano wa leo.
ReplyDeleteData zinaonyesha kuwa ktk mara 16 timu za Chelsea na ManUtd walipokutana Old trafford jijini Manchester, ManUtd wameshinda mara mbili tu.
Diego Maradona pia atakuwapo uwanjani kuwafuatilia wachezaji wa Argentina Uingereza. Jana alikuwapo ktk wanja la Britannia kumfuatilia Mascherano wa Liverpool Fc, ikumbukwe kuwa Diego Maradona ndio kocha wa timu ya taifa ya Argentina.
Data zinaonyesha kuwa mara ya mwisho ManUtd ilipocheza jijini london dhini ya Chelsea ktk premier league zilitoka sare ya 1-1.
Leo asubuhi timu wachezaji wa Chelsea ilibidi watoke nje ya hoteli yao baada ya 'fire alarm' kulia. Wachezaji na wageni wengine ilibidi wakae ktk baridi kwa dakika 50 kabla fire brigade hawajamaliza ukaguzi wa hoteli hiyo na kuruhusu Chelsea na wageni wengine kurudi ndani ya hoteli, baada ya kuridhishwa hakuna hatari ya moto.
Data zinaonyesha kuwa timu yenye rekodi nzuri ya kuzifunga 'bif four' ni Arsenal, ingawa rekodi hiyo haimanishi kuwa utaingoza ligi au kutwaa ubigwa wa premier league.
Mpira ni half-time hapa wanja la Old Trafford jijini Manchester.
ReplyDeleteMatokeo ni Man Utd 1 Chelsea 0. Bao la ManUtd linafungwa na Vidic baada ya mpira wa kona.
Mpira umeisha Old Trafford na ManUtd 3 Chelsea 0.
ReplyDeleteMabao ya Man Utd yalitiwa kimiani na Vidic dak 45, Wayne Rooney Dak 63, Barbetov dakika za mwishoni mwa mchezo.
Chelsea wachezaji wake walilamba kadi tano za njano na hawakuonyesha kile kilichotegemewa toka kwa 'big four teams'.
Anelka na Drogba walionyesha tena kuwa bado hawajaweza kucheza pamoja.
Msimamo wa premier league sasa Liverpool FC pointi 46, Chelesea ya pili pointi 42, ManUtd ya tatu pointi 41 ikiizidi Aston Villa kwa tofauti ya magoli na nafasi ya nne ni Arsenal.
Mkongwe Giggs aliongoza kumiliki midfield pamoja na Darren Fletcher. Mashamubilizi ya ManUtd yalitoka kwa Rooney, Park na Babartov huku Ronald akifanya one-two kama zake.
ManUtd mechi ifuatayo watacheza na Wigan atheletic.
Rafa is losing the plot.. brings back memories of Keegan from '96. Don't play mind games with SAF.
ReplyDeleteWe just wooped Chelski's a**; Scousers get ready!! We have not had the best season really, yet we r only 5 points behind with a couple of games in hand.
Benitez usicheze na wakubwa
ReplyDeletehaya watabiri chongeni na record zenu baada ya chelsea kuja na makocha wawili lkn wamefungwa 3-0 mnalo la kuongeza? ninachotaka kusema tunawakaribisha wale wote ambao hawajatutembelea OLD TRAFFOD
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