Thursday, December 14, 2006
came across this while i was doing my usual reading on redcafe.net:
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has named just six players during his reign at Old Trafford as being genuine world class.Ferguson said: "I've been blessed with several world-class players."Peter Schmeichel was certainly one."Ryan Giggs, for me, definitely. Eric Cantona could have been even better, but for the parts of him you had to control."Wayne Rooney. That's four - and I think Ronaldo is going to be. He's playing in the hardest position, out wide, and never refuses to take the ball and attack players."He's two-footed, he's brave and, once his decision-making improves, he'll be world-class without question. Then there's Roy Keane. That's five."And there's an argument for Paul Scholes, the cleverest midfield player we've ever had."To work with such people has been an absolute pleasure."It's fulfilled every aspiration that occurred to me when I joined the Scotland set-up and encountered the likes of Dalglish and Souness."whoopee. agreed with him on 4 players: Schmeichel, Giggs, Scholes and Keane. they've been there at OT, and proved themselves time and again. denying them of a world-class spot is ridiculous! these four are irreplaceable! before we got vds as keeper, we had to make do with howard and carroll and they're nothing compared to schmikes. SAF will have to travel to hell to find the replacements for the latter three. i mean, carrick is good, but he's more of a scholes than a keane. and MU will really miss giggsy's and scholesy's contribution when they call it quits.
anyway, just came back from holidays yesterday. went to johor baharu for 3 days. visited danga bay and tebrau city. they're okay. tebrau city is a bit like vivo city. huge, broad and have countless shops. in short, a typical sighseeing holiday for me, urban-style.
and in my puteri pacific hotel room, i found out alan pardew was sacked as west ham manager. when i heard it, i was so shocked. it's not right. pardew gives it all for his west ham boys. but they're just not winning, that's all. so what? if curbishley doesn't deliver, he'll be kicked out as well? west ham will be in ruins. just look at newcastle, and what shephard's done to it. *fumes silently* you'd think these bloody owners will at least be reasonable when it comes to things like these...rome wasn't built in a day, so is a football club's success...
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