Keep your mouth shut Ferguson
Posted by Cathal Breathnach on July 26, 2009 | 64 Comments
It seems as though everyday we’re reading different quotes coming from the Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson regarding his neighbours Manchester City.
With Mark Hughes spending millions of pounds already this summer on players like Gareth Barry and Emmanuel Adebayor, it appears to me as though Ferguson is beginning to worry about the threat City could pose next season. When asked about the recent poster that popped up in Manchester (I’m sure you’ve all seen it, the one with Tevez) the Scotsman had this to say :
“It’s City isn’t it? They’re a small club with a small mentality. All they can talk about is Manchester United; they can’t get away from it. They think taking Carlos Tevez away from Manchester United is a triumph. It is poor stuff.”
First of all Fergie, City clearly aren’t a small club anymore and second of all, signing Carlos Tevez is a pretty big deal no matter what club you are. There is no doubt that Ferguson is a terrific manager, however when he starts coming out with the kind of crap he has been coming out with in recent days, it really does irritate me.
As a City fan myself, in the words of the great Kevin Keegan, “I would love it if we beat them, love it.”
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July 26th, 2009 @ 6:48 PM
its the sort of thing you’d expect from rafa benitez. kinda poor of him to take the tevez billboard bait.
July 26th, 2009 @ 6:55 PM
just a daft fuckin hypocrit
July 26th, 2009 @ 6:57 PM
Er, simply being fortunate enough to have been bought by rich arab sheikhs doesn’t mean ‘City aren’t a small club anymore’. Remind me where you lot finished last season? Which trophies did you win?
You’ll be a small club until you win something or make the Champions League. Even if you manage that, you’ll still never be on a par with the truly great clubs, and you’ll still always have the small club mentality and inferiority complex because you’ll know it’s all hollow.
Best of luck though y’know.
July 26th, 2009 @ 6:58 PM
we have realy got under old red nose’s skin. this is on a par with rafa’s rant.why should we be bothered what a geriatic old fool say’s about us.
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:06 PM
Nick sounds bitter could be Fergie in disguise
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:06 PM
“geriatic old fool” with all those trophies in the cabinet?!!! Wouldn’t have it any other way
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:08 PM
Fergie only tries mindgaming teams who he views as a threat so we’re blatantly not a small club. The Carlos Tevez poster was a little childish but it was worth it to get up Taggart’s nose. Yes, maybe it does display a small club mentality but if any of you read the interview with Gary Cook in this Saturday’s Independent then you’ll see that we also have a global agenda.
The Blue Moon is rising and Ferguson is rattled, though I think Arsene Wenger is the EPL Manager with most cause to worry.
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:09 PM
Cant hold his tongue and always blame others .
He has no right to critizise Rafa
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:09 PM
Ummmm, last time I checked, we live in a democracy, something that City fans may have forgotten with them becoming Abu Dhabi City. We still believe in free speech, and Sir Alex has every right to say his piece, especially when IT HAPPENS TO BE TRUE! Tevez has gobbed off every day for weeks, and so have Man City and their deluded fans. If you don’t want grenades thrown back at you, then stop setting up incendiary devices, its not rocket science is it?
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:19 PM
craig ummmmmm, Mr Ferguson can say what he wants. The more he says it, the more obsessed with us he becomes. It’s not rocket science is it? Mind you, it isn’t just him ,recently Ferdinand, Gill and Giggs have made it clear they have no interest in City whilst at the same time bleating about us. Tick tock….
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:21 PM
Clear proof the poster has done what it has set out to do! The comments proving what the majority of football fans have always believed about United, ie bereft of any sense of humour.
It’s a poster, it’s a bit of fun, it made things interesting for 5 mins, get over it!
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:29 PM
Well … guess it can’t be comfy for SAF to contemplate driving around Manchester and having to eye ball this bill board. Whether city is a small club … well, clearly it shdn’t be, BUT putting up such billboards and ads that does nothing to project a confident self image but rather put up a front by trying to put down another club, sorry … can’t agree that’s not small time mentality. HOWEVER, it shd be a reflection on those ppl who put it up and fans who defend such actions, unless sanctioned by the club’s mgmt. Anyway, who knows … true footballing clubs shd do the talking on the pitch, not off it (MU fans included). It shd be an interesting season. P.S. SAF merely answered reporters questions, and its not multiple times, just fragmented and selective reporting by members of the press
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:30 PM
dear oh dear. not long now sir. tick tock!
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:35 PM
What about that banner you lot have had up in the stretford end for the past few years.Double standards by the soft arses.
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:53 PM
Its just hypocritical of a man who criticised Rafa for stating the exact same about Everton, seems like double standards from Alex, of course we all know Tevez had a great connection with the utd fans and the billboard is his farewell to them, by welcoming them to Manchester when they get off the train from London.
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:55 PM
city shutup u guys dont know shit, lets see what kaizerchiefs from south africa did 2 u, for a billion dollar club u aint shit.
July 26th, 2009 @ 7:57 PM
the poster only states the truth. there is only 1 team in manchester, any manyoo fan who dose not agree should google it. shame eh!
July 26th, 2009 @ 8:00 PM
i’m liking this tick tock thing. clock’s been ticking for a good 33 years and more…
July 26th, 2009 @ 8:10 PM
nothing good lasts forever nick……….and so it ticks on!
July 26th, 2009 @ 8:12 PM
Utd have won many trophies under Bacon Face but that will end soon. It is good to see he fears City now.
July 26th, 2009 @ 8:25 PM
I hear that the arab club’s players will introduce a belly-dance goal celebration in future, in honour of their wondrous overseers back in Abu Dhabi.
Very fitting for a club that, rather than building a team, is collecting a gut-wobbling harem of footballers.
July 26th, 2009 @ 8:25 PM
Yes tick tock 33 years, AND WE’RE STILL HERE, I wonder if the RAGS would be? doubt it.
July 26th, 2009 @ 8:29 PM
fair play, i doubt we’d be turning up in the same numbers you lot do in a similar situation. looking at COMS on a matchday seeing all those fans dressed as empty blue seats is always impressive.
July 26th, 2009 @ 8:44 PM
i think hes right city are a small club with a big ego, we will all see what they win next year they are a small club until they win a trophy they couldent even beat kaiser chiefs never mind united and liverpool :L:L
City just try and speak abt united all time what does that billboard gain nothing better to do than try and make headlines we will see who is laughing tevez or fergusen i think i know who will when SAF is lifting the premier and tevez will be lucky to be in europa league :L:L
July 26th, 2009 @ 8:54 PM
ho ho ho nice to see short sighted replys, city have planned to finish in the top 6 not top spot so you can stop pannicking. aaawhhh boo hoooo you’ve piched our player waaahhhhh awwww booooooooo hooooooooooooooo!
July 26th, 2009 @ 8:58 PM
Citeh can show off.. but they need to prove and talk.. without anything they cannot even deserve to speak on merit…saf was right.. even notts forest is a much bigger team than u guys !
July 26th, 2009 @ 9:02 PM
Man City is a small club no doubt about it. Putting the big poster shows it? Man City being at fault first and now asking Sir Alex to shut up? So funny. Man City should be the one to shut up. City is a small club until they are being bought by the rich owner. Did they win any trophy for the past 30years? No. Now they saying they are a big club? With money definitely a yes in a few years. But no matter what, no fans in the world will like Man City. Look at chelsea, arsenal, aston villa fans and people around the world hating this club. Real Madrid spend big and no one complain. Man City spend big and all people are saying this club. It shows you how the status of this city club is.
July 26th, 2009 @ 9:10 PM
Well said Cathal, we’ve got them on the run, we’ve got them on the run, we’ve got them on the run.
July 26th, 2009 @ 9:15 PM
Look at all these rag fans coming on defending the humourless bitter old soak. Seems to me like they they’ve developed the same bitter, classless mentality as the sour baconfaced alki.
July 26th, 2009 @ 9:16 PM
Good article by the way.
July 26th, 2009 @ 9:17 PM
Get over it all all you city fans its okay while you are taking the p#ss , but as soon as fergie utters the truth you start crying all the way back to stockport
July 26th, 2009 @ 9:21 PM
Let the Face of Bacon curl its gutteral lip so its rancid tongue can spew its bully boy vitreous bile. Mind games my arse.
July 26th, 2009 @ 9:23 PM
Mikeyz, I seem to remember your lot losing to Kaiser Chiefs in the same competition 12 months ago, Jeez you guys have short memories.
And if we’re such a small club why are you all so bothered?
Also, how can Bacon Face say Tevez isn’t worth £25 when that’s how much he offered to keep him, and why did he interrupt his holiday to text and phone Tevez? Definitely squeeky bum time over at the swamp, Fergie’s sphincter is going to rupture sooner rather than later (though some would argue it already has given the crap he’s come out with this weekend!)
CTID
July 26th, 2009 @ 9:25 PM
Its Great when Fergie starts to worry he lashes out weve seen it time and time again maybe he is now thinking how much did Hughes learn off me ??
Is this the end of an era as all good things must come to an end.??
July 26th, 2009 @ 9:46 PM
I like it that we are a small club. A player like Tevez was always going to end up with the plucky underdogs. Even Chelsea are criticising us for being “new money”, as if they now have a royal right to a place in the Sky 4.
I don’t think City are small minded – if anything, they seem rather ambitious.
I could have chosen to support Utd when I was a young boy, but that would have made me a glory hunter, like Kaka, John Terry, and all these insecure players who need to play for a current champions league team. At least Man City have a team of players who dare to dream.
I’m not really bothered about what Sir Alex Ferguson says about us. I respect him as probably the greatest manager in the world at the moment. Hughes has been most respectful to him, so I’m surprised by his thin skin, and lack of class. He really should be concentrating on his own club’s problems.
July 26th, 2009 @ 9:46 PM
Use big bait, catch a big nob head
July 26th, 2009 @ 9:55 PM
Uniteds Glory years started after the liverpool domination, due to good finacial positions both clubs have done really well, but now both clubs are in debt to hundreds of million of pounds,Arsenal debt of hundreds of millions of pounds has now seen them slowly deteriate, Manchester city are the new finacial kings of the football world, so enjoy the past while city enjoy the future.
July 26th, 2009 @ 10:05 PM
One thing city fans should remember is that Chelsea were saying the same things in 2005 about a new world order.Where are they now. SAF has firmly put them in their place. I actually pity u bitter lot, thinking u will achieve success overnite. It takes planning and putting the right structures in place. Sir is right, infact he was restrained. City’s ambition is to be the biggest club in manchester. Thats what i call small time thinking. Useless stupid bitter egoistical cunts. Go cry over your empty trophy cabinet!!
July 26th, 2009 @ 10:18 PM
People really have selective memories. Man united’s debt came about because of the glazer takeover. The club’s business model was and still is sustainable. They operate within their means not depending on wealthy sugar daddy’s oil money. Hate him or love him SAF says the truth
July 26th, 2009 @ 10:19 PM
I couldn’t care less what he thinks. Could you?
July 26th, 2009 @ 11:07 PM
Man Urinal fans have sneered and derided City and its fans for years. Now the rag brain surgeons are having it back, and in the words of Cpl Jones “They don’t like it up em, sir, oh no!” Seems that for the last fifty years I’ve only been thinking of and talking about Man U. Strange that, really. I must have missed something. It must be my inferiority complex that stopped me from renouncing my allegiance to City and switching to the Glazer Red Sox, because they were so successful. I cannot imagine anything worse than becoming a red, personally. It’s just not in me.
July 27th, 2009 @ 1:01 AM
pj stretford ender..r u writing that from ur chair in london..hahaha..old bacon face alky is gettin scared cos the mind games r already bein played..fergie is a hypocrit..FACT
July 27th, 2009 @ 1:38 AM
Who are Man City? I didn’t realise there was another club in the area?
July 27th, 2009 @ 2:26 AM
man u scum, united are scared, they have cashed in on ronaldo and no matter what he can’t be replaced that’s why u bought obertan and Valencia ha ha ha. What are both of them gonna give u, jack all Valencia struggled to score 5 goals a season he can’t score 25. Good luck you scummy basterds
July 27th, 2009 @ 2:57 AM
Its City,s turn
follow the golden rule
he who has the gold makes the rules
July 27th, 2009 @ 7:23 AM
sounds like he’s scared to me!!
July 27th, 2009 @ 7:56 AM
United fans have to ask themselves (going to be tricky this) if City as so small time and its only trophies that matter why they are so obsessed with such a “small” club. After all they signed Valncia from mighty Wigan and had to sign Michael Owing from relegated Newcastle and couldnt even sign the player bacon face wanted to sign because he preferred a “small” club. So MASSIVE DEBT, HYPE, BS, NON MANCHESTER “UNITED” whats the problem. Cant stand the heat?
July 27th, 2009 @ 8:04 AM
Perfectly summed up by Bill. United are the classic example of disloyal, lazy, unthinking, disassociated, attention seeking, immature, glory deprived, maladjusted, so called “fans” everywhere.
City fans are in it for the love of the club. No amount of trophies or success will change that. In fact I suspect some of them even dread it. Partly because it draws in exactly the type of person we despise. United fans though relsi the “glory” hiding behind their psychosis, the success of their heroes make them something they are not. They are spineless, consumers of what is presented to them. Spoon fed half wits.
July 27th, 2009 @ 9:41 AM
Ha hahaha, these rags are getting their noses bent right out of shape, its brilliant how they all seem to think that being a big club is solely to do with trophies, so by this admission are they saying Arsenal are no longer a big club because they haven’t won anything for a few years? And that Forest are a bigger club because they’ve won the European cup twice, does that mean they were bigger than yoonited until ’99 when you managed to your 2nd E.Cup?
Mugs
July 27th, 2009 @ 9:50 AM
Man u kenya
July 26th, 2009 @ 10:05 pm
Love the way you call him ‘Sir’ are you one of his minnions?
You say “City’s ambition is to be the biggest club in manchester. Thats what i call small time thinking”
I say, you lot claim to be the biggest in the world so if we are the biggest in manchester…
…well its not rocket science is it?
If you honestly think that money (loaned or not) has had no bearing on united’s success?
If you do you truly are thicker than you first appear. tool
July 27th, 2009 @ 10:16 AM
Mine’s bigger than yours…nah, nah,nah-nah, nah! I think SAF is starting to lose it!
He would have had more dignity if he’d just kept quiet and let his silence do the talking.
It’s blatantly clear that there is a new team in town and the Sky 4 will soon have their monopoly broken up by THE world’s richest club.
What we’ve seen in the last few weeks is just the start. Our new owners have just been playing around with their loose change so far.
July 27th, 2009 @ 1:05 PM
United fans and ferguson can keep there mouths shut. how can they call js a small club – FACT BETTER FANS (MANCHESTER BASED ) BETTER STADIUM BETTER CLUB
July 27th, 2009 @ 3:03 PM
The funniest thing for me has to be some of the Rags coming on here to defend Man Ure when they can hardly string together a sentance in English. Just read some of the posts on here and it highlights that most of your fan base live in London if your lucky and more than likely further a field – therefore not Manchester thus making the poster a mute point, cause not many of you would ever get to see it without the Internet or hear about it without Red nose whining about it – fantastic! Tick Tock! Oh and as a final point you can’t blame City for being bought by owners with money to fund our success. You lot tried it first before us but were daft enough to sell to debt ridden Americans. Thanks to Thaksin (what a hero) we were bought by rich Arabs, stop whining and live with it! CTID
July 27th, 2009 @ 3:09 PM
As a nuetral but as a true football fan I am delighted for Man City. I have had the pleasure of watching both teams over the past 40 odd years and can remember standing in the kippax with crowds over 60000. The argument of are City a small club is ridiculous they are huge not as big as United but still massive. I think sir Alex has seriously lost the plot over this statement and will lose alot of respect because of his attempt to belittle the average City fan. I would like to remind Man Utd fans its not too long ago when you were in the 2nd tier with crowds way below those at Maine Road and City were by far the bigger team then – Yes the tides have turned again back to United supremacy but it is inevitable that City will once again rule Manchester with the massive wealth they have compared to the Glazers debt and coupled with Fergies age – I just wonder if the United fans will show as much dignity as have the city fans through their demise.
A Neutral Fan Wishing City Well.
July 27th, 2009 @ 3:35 PM
Interesting to hear all the un**ed “fans” claiming we will never be a “big” club. At what point has anyone from City said we are a big club? Seems to me some people are getting a little paranoid!
July 27th, 2009 @ 3:54 PM
Fuckin hell the united fans coming on here can’t even speak English ffs. You know fuck all about football if you think city are a small club, who holds the highest league attendence ever? Who got gates of 30k in the 3rd tier? We ain’t won much for the past 30 years but we are certainly not a small club.
July 27th, 2009 @ 5:33 PM
There’s a massive change happening not only in Manchester but in European football and all the top clubs and managers know about it… MANCHESTER CITY FC. United are deep, very very deep in the red – I have read they are somewhere near £1.3 BILLION in debt. They couldn’t have afforded Tevez in a month of Sundays and that has been proven by the signing of Michael Owen. Fergie is shaking big time and he knows his time is finally up. There’s only one club in Manchester catching all the headlines these days and it’s certainly not United. I have just returned from a holiday in Turkey and the Manchester City tidal wave has certainly hit their shores. It was amazing to see all the waiters, bar staff, shops and market stalls boasting not the red of United – BUT THE SKY BLUE OF CITY. Fergie and United are finished, he won’t even be there in 12 months because his ridiculous comments only translate as this is the end.
July 27th, 2009 @ 6:48 PM
1968, last game of the season, all united had to do was beat lowly sunderland at home to win the league City travel to newcastle and win, united fail, City win the league.
Its about to happen all over again, I can’t
wait, the future is bright, the futures blue.
July 27th, 2009 @ 6:53 PM
I`m not sure who Ferguson looks and act`s like most, I thought Sir Les Patterson, a thick whingering bastard with shit for brains.
July 27th, 2009 @ 7:54 PM
85,529 Still an all time attendance english record MAN CITY V Stoke, not bad for a small club,dickhead
July 28th, 2009 @ 12:35 PM
Paul Calf, u seem like a sensible chap but ur comments suggest otherwise. Man u were already one of the biggest clubs b4 the Glazer debt came along. We did not borrow bt rather won trophies to sustain ourselves. Do some reading during your free time,it might help u. U think u become the biggest club in a shouting match or a poster war. Utterly stupid of city. They will NEVER be on the same level as united and u know it deep down. Here in Kenya man city are regarded on the same level as portsmouth or wigan. Everton are better known. Dumb ***!!
July 28th, 2009 @ 4:12 PM
Fergies right, what makes a big club? a staduim, city dont own theres, trophys and history city DEFENTILY dont have them.. city are a small club and will be untill they win a couple of prems amd champions leagues and challange for honours every year like the 2 biggest clubs in england liverpool/united and city will NEVER EVER get any were near the history or trophys they have.. even with there millions, fukin robbin c**ts.
July 28th, 2009 @ 4:27 PM
Nice to know that we are on not too well known in Kenya.
A mixed bag of comments really aren’t they. SAF is hypocritical, comparing Tevez to Cantona earlier in the season. Now slagging him off.
We started the “this is our city” campaign last season and it hasn’t merited a mention until now. Funny that.
I will happily admit he is the best manager around and has been for quite some time. I grew up a City fan and at that time we were the major team. I don’t remember being too smug about that. Things went downhill but we remained in hope though expectation had disappeared some time before. I’ve along with 1000′s of others been to Lincoln midweek to see us lose, all over the place and i will continue to. They are my team and that is that. I don’t think you can have that if you are not from the place. My brother in law is an Everton fan and we have both talked about thinking of moving our allegiance. It is just not possible.
This big 4 agenda is all for Sky’s convenience and no one else’s. It suits fan’s of the “Big 4″ to go with it. It wasn’t like that pre-sky and the premier league. One of the “big 4″ hasn’t even won the EPL. Prior to it’s inception we’d won the Division 1 as had Derby Leeds and many others.
SAF should have laughed at it rather than said what he said. He is entitled to but where does it get him.
The debt on the money Utd owe was £79m in interest this season i read. So thanks Mr Ronaldo you almost paid that off.
PS and the man who critcised the English of the United fans should not be so quick to throw stones. Mute point !! Its a moot point mate.
July 28th, 2009 @ 6:18 PM
City fans must be a thick lot. U think highest attendance means u are big. Try winning seventeen more league titles, three european cups plus many more trophies. What do u have in your cabinet? One league and FA cup,last final 1976? Please shut up!! In terms of history, tradition, trophies,support, basically everything u cannot compete with united. United won’t go away coz u have money. Get used to it. Your lot are so cheap, could not resist arab money like united resisted the glazers. Stupid is putting it mildly.