[Archived] Fergie

[Blue n White Rover]

They got beat.

That why I said 'I would like'

[Flopsy]

I've deleted a number of posts for going off topic.

However valid the points made, it wasnt about RFW

[colin]

Rat-Faced-Whinger is possibly the apex of the current trend for managers to whimper, whine & moan about everything possiblethat it is moan-able about.

But have you ever noticed that they only do it when their team has lost?

They are all two-faced hypocrytical, gob-shites. The lot of them should be replayed the comments that they made last week

when their teams won (obviously not an option for Paul Jewell) when they got a dodgy penalty or a dodgy free kick.

Second in line is Arsene Wenger, followed by Steve Bruce, Harry Redknapp, & our own Mark Hughes.

Bloody moan, whinge, moan, whine, gripe, whimper whinge grump.

How about "We were beaten by the better team?"

It would make a refreshing change instead of the endless complaining and blaming the ref or the pitch or the assistant referee.

I can't be the only one who watches Match Of The Day and gets really bored & depressed by the moaning by the manager of the beaten team.

It just happens time after time after time.

[Rovermatt]

Ferguson's upset about playing unnecessary games. What a plonker.

[Hughesy]

He wasnt upset when they went Saudi for a £1 million cash sum for just turning up though! Prick!

[Anti Euro Smiths Fan]

More hypocrisy from the Scottish ogre....

Alex Ferguson has accused the Portuguese FA of "exploiting" Cristiano Ronaldo after the winger had to play the full 90 minutes in Portugal's mid-week friendly with Italy last week.

Fergie was fuming that Ronaldo played the full match and said: "Portugal used five subsitutes against Italy and yet Cristiano had to play the full match. It's clear that Portugal are exploiting him."

If you were so concerned with Ronaldo being rested Mr Ferguson, why did you send him on a 6,000-mile round trip to play a match in Saudi Arabia? Or is it acceptable for Ronaldo to play, just as long as Man United are getting paid a million quid, but you object to him playing for his country?

When Fergie was briefly Scotland manager in 1986, he hated Liverpool players pulling out of friendlies with niggling injuries, accusing them of not being fully committed to their country. But now that the boot is on the other foot and Fergie is at Old Trafford, he hates his United players being involved in friendly matches. That's why since his Wales debut back in 1991, Ryan Giggs failed to play in a single friendly international match for the next nine years, missing 18 consecutive friendly games.

Incredibly, Giggs didn't play in one single friendly away match for Wales until 2006, a year before he retired from international football. It now seems as if Fergie is trying to pile on the pressure for the Portugese not to play Ronaldo in friendlies.

After Man City's 2-1 win over United yeaterday, an angry Ferguson refused to attend the press conference afterwards. Assistant boss Carlos Queiroz spoke to the media and complained that too many United players were tired because they had trained hard under Capello and had played for 90 minutes during international matches in midweek.

How dare these United players perform for their country!

If Fergie had his way, these United players would only perform for their clubs, including playing in lucrative matches over in Saudi Arabia. Sod the pride in playing for your own country, Fergie doesn't give a damn about that.

This so-called "Scottish patriot" apparently advised Alex McLeish to quit Scotland and take the job at Birmingham. The Brummies were offering to treble his wages and Fergie thought that his old Aberdeen defender McLeish should go where the money is and leave Scotland. Clearly money counts above patriotism for Ferguson.

How I'd love it if Birmingham were relegated this season and Man United didn't win either the Premiership or the Champions League this year.

[Grabbi Graeme]

Shows what a bad loser Ferguson is, he sends his lacky Carlos the failed manager out to do his dirty work, If Utd had of beaten City you can be sure that Fergie would have been at every press conference and shoving his red face into every camera he could find at Old Trafford.

Surprised that Ronaldo didn't get one of them mystery injuries Giggs used to get during international friendly week, you know the one that clears up before the Saturday.

[Rovermatt]

Perhaps it's because Ferguson doesn't have the balls to undermine Scolari.

[Hughesy]

As much as I hate United, id still rather see them win it over Arsenal. Cant stand arsenal and the way they act like royalty and you cant touch them.

Yet last night once again - the worst foul of the game from Fabregas

[joey_big_nose]

Surprised that Ronaldo didn't get one of them mystery injuries Giggs used to get during international friendly week, you know the one that clears up before the Saturday.

Um like Reid, Rocky and Ooijer? We are just as bad at this. Lets not pretend otherwise.

[Rovermatt]

As much as I hate United, id still rather see them win it over Arsenal. Cant stand arsenal and the way they act like royalty and you cant touch them.

Yes, because United are so humble.

[Grabbi Graeme]

Um like Reid, Rocky and Ooijer? We are just as bad at this. Lets not pretend otherwise.

Being as Reid was out for over a year, I think it was sensible not to risk him, Ooijer has shown he is injury prone and as for Rocky he required rest for his injury not a round trip to South America.

And let's face it Utd have a large squad and the fact that Giggs plays 45 mins on a Weds night in Wrexham shouldn't really bother Fergie, it's all about control, I bet Fergie is p***** off he has to let Rooney and the rest play for England.

[Alan75]

Being as Reid was out for over a year, I think it was sensible not to risk him, Ooijer has shown he is injury prone and as for Rocky he required rest for his injury not a round trip to South America.

And let's face it Utd have a large squad and the fact that Giggs plays 45 mins on a Weds night in Wrexham shouldn't really bother Fergie, it's all about control, I bet Fergie is p***** off he has to let Rooney and the rest play for England.

Thought he'd retired from International football.

[Grabbi Graeme]

He was in semi retirement anyway as he was always pulled out of frindlies, I know he is retired now but I was talking about when he was available to play for his country well when Fergie let him.

[Anti Euro Smiths Fan]

Three more years of the Scottish bugger until 2011

The BBC article says that "Ferguson had initially planned to retire in 2005". In fact, he was planning to retire in 2002, before changing his mind.

Michael Crick, a biographer of Fergie, claims that Sven-Goran Eriksson was close to leaving the England job and being appointed as Fergie's Man United successor in the summer of 2002, before Ferguson did a u-turn and decided to stay.

Of course, it's entirely possible that we might get to 2011 and Fergie will want to carry on for a further year or two into his 70s. They say that a week is a long time in politics and three to five years is a long time in football. There are no guarantees for Mark Hughes that he will be the prime candidate to take over at Old Trafford in three to five years time. A lot can happen in football during that period.

I suspect that Fergie's preferred successor may well be Carlos Queiroz. Whether the Old Trafford board would go along with Fergie's preferred choice is another matter. The United board might be wary of the "Brian Kidd syndrome" - a coach who struggles to take the step up to becoming manager. Indeed if you go back to 1969, Wilf McGuinness certainly struggled to take the step up from coach to being Matt Busby's successor as manager.

When Fergie eventually goes, all sorts of names could come into the reckoning, including perhaps Jose Mourinho if he does well over the next few years. Just because Mark Hughes was a former player at United, it certainly doesn't mean that the Old Trafford board would necessarily choose him as their choice. I suspect that the United board may ideally be looking for a candidate who can point to a managerial CV of winning trophies at the highest European level.

The Champions League is the big trophy that United are after. In Fergie's first four years as United manager, all he had to show for it was the 1990 FA Cup and mid-table mediocrity. There's no way in the world that United would accept that now.

[waggy]

when i heard fergie was staying for another 3 years,my thoughts automatically went to the sparky situation.i would not be suprised if he left this summer for another club,bigger than us in stature.what hughes has done for us is nothing short off remarkable and bigger richer clubs will have taken note

[USABlue]

when i heard fergie was staying for another 3 years,my thoughts automatically went to the sparky situation.

Mine too.

[1864roverite]

Face is a picture following todays humbling at home to Pompy. DO NOT miss his face on TV when he slates the referee - a cerain Mr Atkinson

[Ben-2000]

Was watching the last part of that game on the big screen before our game today... he really was ###### off near the end, arms waving, throwing gum etc...love it

[colin]

Another classic "blame the ref" from Rat-Faced Whinger and his assistant today.

Brilliant in its intensity and completely missed the point that, with all their money, they couldn't beat Portsmouth at home.

A great example of deflecting the blame for their own shortcomings & failures onto the officials.

[thenodrog]

Another classic "blame the ref" from Rat-Faced Whinger and his assistant today.

Brilliant in its intensity and completely missed the point that, with all their money, they couldn't beat Portsmouth at home.

A great example of deflecting the blame for their own shortcomings & failures onto the officials.

Unbelievably according to Quieroz it's all Martin Taylor's fault!

[Montfort]

He is just a surly, bad loser!!

mangers should only be allowed to critise the bad decisions made in favour of their teams. We would find that the premiership managers opinion of referees improved overnight

[daveoftherovers]

Well well well, I didn't think even he could sink to such low levels, both him and his assistant need a good goosing off the FA (They won't of course) but they have clearly lost the plot, well played pompey..

[roversmum]

For me it was worth watching to see Ferdinand don the goalkeeper's jersey and miss the penalty.

Although - it's almost certainly goodbye Europe for Rovers

[thebigguy]

typical fergie yesturday. When he losses he picks on the officials but not on his own decisions or his own players for being rubbish. But if they won he would off been praising his players and the officials.