"Get off my lawn!"
Sir Alex Ferguson is getting on in years and he's had a tough season already with Man City nipping at Man United's heels and Wayne Rooney playing mind games with the club. So it's only fair that he's allowed to have a grandpa rant or two just to release some pent-up frustration.
While discussing the topic of Danny Murphy's diatribe against Wolves, Stoke and Blackburn's hard-tackling ways, Ferguson told Man United's official magazine, Inside United, the following (via Soccernet):
"The players are babies now," he said. "In my day, you had to hit someone with a hatchet before a referee booked you. It's a different game now."
It is a different game. The players now are bigger, faster, stronger and more powerful than they were 40, 50 years ago when Ferguson played. They can end each other's insanely lucrative careers with ease. But somehow that makes them babies. And back in the '60s you literally had to hit someone with a hatchet to get booked. And the pitch was made of asbestos and both ends were uphill.
Talking about this did give Ferguson an idea, though. Let's just say that if Rooney turns up with a mysterious hatchet wound, you'll know what happened.
Photo: Reuters
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