MANCHESTER UNITED legend Rio Ferdinand has recalled precisely what Sir Alex Ferguson stated after rivals Manchester Metropolis received the Premier League title again in 2012.
Metropolis snatched the Prem trophy straight from the palms of Ferguson and Co on a dramatic remaining day twelve years in the past.
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United provisionally held the highest spot following a 1-0 win over Sunderland – whereas Roberto Mancini’s aspect had been stage at 2-2 with Queens Park Rangers.
Nonetheless, Sergio Aguero scored a last-gasp winner for Metropolis to clinch the league title.
Man Utd gamers went from delight to despair inside a matter of moments on the Stadium of Mild.
Recalling the event with Ferdinand on his Rio Presents YouTube channel, ex-defender Phil Jones defined: “We’re away at Sunderland, we win the sport 1-0. Our recreation’s completed and I walked off the pitch, and Berber’s [Dimitar Berbatov] gone to me, ‘it is completed, it is completed,’ so I feel we have completed it.
“So I am pondering, we have completed it, we have received the league.
“And anyway, because it transpires the sport’s not completed. Then, clearly, I am unable to even identify him, goes and scores and that was it.
“The sensation… I’ve by no means been in a dressing room like that earlier than. By no means.”
He was then requested about Ferguson’s response, to which Ferdinand chimed in to answer: “He stated, ‘you skilled gamers, you have run this course, you have been right here.
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“‘However you younger ones,’ and he named you, Chris Smalling, Welbs [Danny Welbeck], Clevs [Tom Cleverley] and many others.
“He went, ‘you pay attention now and also you bear in mind the faces on the market,’ as a result of the Sunderland followers had been laughing at us they usually had been cheering when the purpose went in.
“So he stated, ‘you bear in mind their faces, you bear in mind what it is like and also you bear in mind this sense right here, now, the day you come again into pre-season subsequent season. You do not let that occur once more.’
“And we received the league the following season.”
Man Utd went on to win the Premier League in 2013 to finish Ferguson’s 27-year spell as supervisor on a excessive.
