Football Orphan: United delighted to claim hollow victory.
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After last nights victory over Aldershot Alex Ferguson spoke of his delight of the goal scoring ratio of Michael Owen and his pleasure of seeing Dimitar Berbatov score. Am I possibly missing something here? Berbatov, who cost the club close to £30 million scores against Aldershot, and this is what pleases Ferguson? He doesn’t trust either Michael Owen or Dimitar Berbatov to put them anywhere near the first team squad but when they play against lower league and destroy them, he has high praise for them. His comments about Owen were laughable, “Every time he plays, he scores”. He has only played against lower league opposition this season. This is a player who is still only 31 and has 89 caps for England scoring 40 goals. Last night’s exploits were hardly worth a pat on the back in my opinion. As for Berbatov, this type of thing should be a little more embarrassing given the transfer fee that he commanded from Spurs just a few seasons ago. Ferguson’s comments are little more than propaganda to massage these players egos.
Alex Ferguson could be forgiven for being shell-shocked at the result suffered at Old Trafford on Sunday, but the post match interview could have had a little more humility about it. It closely resembled the school yard game with kids who pick fair teams when some older lads come along (Vidic, Valencia, Park, Owen and Berbatov) and one team claims all of them. Once the inevitable result has been established, the winning team has the audacity to puff their chest out and boast about the victory. There has been more than enough written about the wrong turn in both Owen and Berbatov’s career, but I personally just can’t understand the mentality of players sitting out top games and collecting medals by defacto victory. When they look back on their career, I’m sure they’ll both have stout bank balances to justify the gaps in suffered in vital game time.
Football Orphan 