So you accept he has then. I honestly dont see that. The whole thing is a pantomime and I doubt it was anything more to him. Just like Mourinho...no wonder both got on so well. I'm sure the two chuckled over a glass of wine at how much the fans and media lapped up their stringpulling. I've never been offended by Mourhino and consider him a winner, I just dislike his footballing philosophy.
Pure pantomime, it's just a shame you (and the fat spanish waiter) allowed yourselves to get so wound up by it. The fault lies with yourselves not with Fergie for tieing yourselves in knots over it
Wound up The only ones wound up with the comment were Everton and their fans. Benitez was the only manager who stood up to Fergie's moaning, whinging and arrogance [yes how alike are he and Mourinho ] ... by countering his whinges with his fackts ...... Ferguson was, is and always will be a horrible individual, who did great at his job and that's it.
Also you can't call his shenanigans pantomime when a lot of the stuff he did was behind closed doors until those he did it to, brought it out in public. The 'mind games' I will give you, it's part of the game
You(in the words of John McEnroe) can't be serious, if someone legitimately criticises him over something crass, hypocrital etc its because we heard it or saw it happen, whether Benitez hated him or not is nothing to do with it.
"Ferguson recently admitted that his only regret was not matching Paisley's three European Cups at Manchester United. While Ferguson won 1.46 trophies per season in 26 seasons at United, Paisley achieved 2.22 per season." And there lies the root of his still burning hatred of LFC.
Listen to yourself. You're whinging about petty nonsense. You honestly believe Benitez came out of that "standing up" as anything other than a laughing stock? He fell for Fergie's mind games hook line and sinker. Ofcourse it's a pantomime...and Rafa was the pantomime horse. We won the title. All it ever proved as I keep pointing out is Fergie was a winner. Fergie was ruthless and thankfully he was ours. I can totally understand why rivals feel bitter and desperate to berate him.
Leave Treble alone and stop bullying him He is one of very very few Mancs on here who are reasonable and not biased usually UIR and Shteve, fill your boots!
Can't you imagine a situation where we can express disapprobation without actually being "wound up" about it? I found some of Fergie's characteristics pretty grim, but I can assure you I wasn't jumping up and down or foaming at the mouth over it-it's an observation. Your defence seems to contain the suggestion that all his bad traits are forgiveable because they contributed to his success, and that's the most important thing. I wonder would you show the same level of understanding for...oh, let's say, Luis Suarez? Surely the biting, swan- diving and arm-waving were all just aspects of the lovable rogue's brilliance as a footballer?
I can't think of anyone, in all fairness, including Clough, Shankly, Paisley and even Busby who could have won that title in 2013 by (12?) points with that squad. Okay, it was Van Persie's swansong and all, but we could see the following year under Moyes, and even up until this last month with Van Gaal, and with how many hundreds of millions of pounds spent over the last two years, that was actually some achievement. ****er.
When he wins something. He's world class no doubt about it but there's a difference between wumming and biting someone's ear off lol. Maradona for me was just the best player I'd ever seen. Pietersen one of the best batsmen I've ever seen. They're winners not perfect human beings but then who is.
Benitez got suckered by Ferguson and his fackhts speech was a complete embarrassment that signalled the beginning of the end of your title challenge that year.
What position did "fackts speech"play and what number was on his shirt? The season caved in due to what happened on the pitch not off it. Only blinkered Evertonians and mancs would think otherwise.
