carlyluvsunited
16-02-2008, 08:54 AM
What’s your favourite FA Cup tie … ?
The images in my mind of Ryan Giggs running at five members of an Arsenal
defence who never quite get close enough to make a tackle. Too late comes Tony
Adams' realisation that Giggs is going to shoot; there is a lunge, a shot, Giggs
wheels away, whirling his shirt above his head, arguably the greatest semi-final
the FA Cup has staged settled in extra time.
Today is Fergies 100th FA Cup tie - against his most enduring opponent.
Dalglish, Keegan and Mourinho have all come and gone but Wenger wont go
away.
Since Giggs laid bare Wenger's defence, their FA Cup encounters have swung
Arsenal's way. United's fifth-round defeat at Old Trafford six years ago saw
Ferguson round on David Beckham for a supposed lack of commitment and
accidentally strike him with a boot. The 2005 final was one United dominated and
lost on penalties.
That would have hurt Ferguson deeply but not perhaps as much as last Sunday's
defeat in the Manchester derby, the game that was supposed to climax the
commemorations of the Munich disaster.
Fergie said: "I couldn't give you an answer about why we were so poor," he
said. "I have a feeling the emotions got to our players; the minute's silence
certainly got to me.
"It is the only explanation I can offer because it was one of the worst
performances you could have expected from United. It is a test for us now just as
it was a test for the club in 1958. It had a deep impact on the team and you can
feel it out there. They have an uphill fight to win the League but it is not beyond
them."
Whatever line-up, Fergie chooses in his 100th FA Cup tie it will be a long and hard
decision and a long hard battle on the pitch; the culmination of the toughest
sequence of fixtures United have known the in the competition. Since winning at
Wolverhampton in January 2006, United have been pitted against 10 successive
Premier League clubs. "It is the hardest run I have ever had," said Ferguson. "If
we get through this, I am going to the quarter-final draw; just to check."
Which Premier League team next for us … ?
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The images in my mind of Ryan Giggs running at five members of an Arsenal
defence who never quite get close enough to make a tackle. Too late comes Tony
Adams' realisation that Giggs is going to shoot; there is a lunge, a shot, Giggs
wheels away, whirling his shirt above his head, arguably the greatest semi-final
the FA Cup has staged settled in extra time.
Today is Fergies 100th FA Cup tie - against his most enduring opponent.
Dalglish, Keegan and Mourinho have all come and gone but Wenger wont go
away.
Since Giggs laid bare Wenger's defence, their FA Cup encounters have swung
Arsenal's way. United's fifth-round defeat at Old Trafford six years ago saw
Ferguson round on David Beckham for a supposed lack of commitment and
accidentally strike him with a boot. The 2005 final was one United dominated and
lost on penalties.
That would have hurt Ferguson deeply but not perhaps as much as last Sunday's
defeat in the Manchester derby, the game that was supposed to climax the
commemorations of the Munich disaster.
Fergie said: "I couldn't give you an answer about why we were so poor," he
said. "I have a feeling the emotions got to our players; the minute's silence
certainly got to me.
"It is the only explanation I can offer because it was one of the worst
performances you could have expected from United. It is a test for us now just as
it was a test for the club in 1958. It had a deep impact on the team and you can
feel it out there. They have an uphill fight to win the League but it is not beyond
them."
Whatever line-up, Fergie chooses in his 100th FA Cup tie it will be a long and hard
decision and a long hard battle on the pitch; the culmination of the toughest
sequence of fixtures United have known the in the competition. Since winning at
Wolverhampton in January 2006, United have been pitted against 10 successive
Premier League clubs. "It is the hardest run I have ever had," said Ferguson. "If
we get through this, I am going to the quarter-final draw; just to check."
Which Premier League team next for us … ?
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