You always have to wonder how serious one should take quotes like these coming from back up Manchester United keeper Tomasz Kuszczak in which the Polish International has a go at veteran Edwin van der Sar in the press.
Rio Ferdinand’s calf injury could be more serious than first feared after Sir Alex Ferguson openly spoke about the England International’s inability to recover.
Antonio Valencia’s deflected injury-time effort preserved Manchester United’s long Champions League unbeaten home record and swept Sir Alex Ferguson’s men into the last 16. Trailing 3-1 to a spirited CSKA Moscow outfit with barely six minutes remaining, Sir Alex Ferguson’s side delved into their box of tricks, pulling a goal back through Paul Scholes before Valencia’s 25-yard effort flew in off Georgi Schennikov.
The perfect ending was denied new dad Wayne Rooney when he curled what would have been the winner over the bar.
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In a wide ranging interview C Ron sits chats it up with Steven Howard of the Sun and talks about a lot, Castrol’s new player rankings, Man U and Man City, the difference between England and Spain, and a few other things…
From the Sun:
The one that followed a chat with the referee and ended in a red card for Wayne Rooney in the 2006 World Cup quarter-final.
And Cristiano Ronaldo was still unrepentant. Sitting just a couple of feet away from me in a studio a mile or so from the Bernabeu Stadium, the £80million man stopped playing with the ring on his finger and said: “Winking?
“I do it all the time - not just in World Cup quarter-finals. And I had done it many times before.” (more…)
Not content with cranking up the pressure on Tony Mowbray after Hearts knocked out the holders of the Co-operative Insurance Cup, Csaba Laszlo last night made the extraordinary claim that he should have beaten the Englishman to the Celtic job as well. Wednesday night’s 1-0 victory for the Tynecastle side may have sparked demonstrations from disgruntled home fans but it also appears to have increased the Romanian’s bafflement that he was not considered for the Parkhead post when Gordon Strachan resigned in May.
More on this and LOTS of big talk from Csaba after the jump
