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You can't applaud a referee.

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Alex Ferguson
Age: 82
Born: 1941
Born: December 31
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Autobiographer
Manager
Alexander Chapman Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson
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Referee
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Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.
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But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.
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I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.
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I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.
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We have to try to beat Everyone.
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I'm-A-God-Look-At-Me.
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If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'
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I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.
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It's great news. The reality of negotiations today is that they take time. But these have always been conducted in a good spirit and we are very pleased with the outcome. We can now look forward to the future.
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Football, bloody hell!
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The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.
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Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
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I was lying in bed on a Saturday morning, reading the paper, when my phone went. The caller was Rangers director, Jack Gillespie, and he offered me the manager's job at Ibrox. I was flattered but declined with thanks. John Greig was a good friend of mine and I had no intention of being involved in ousting him.
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I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.
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Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.
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They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.
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He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
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Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.
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If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.
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If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.
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