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RELIEF & SATISFACTION FOR FERGIE AT IBROX 10/22/2003. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson summed up his reaction to his team's 1-0 defeat of Rangers in the Champions League as a mixture of 'relief and satisfaction.' Ferguson said after part one of the so-called Battle of Britain at a passionate Ibrox: "We viewed it as a difficult game and losing in Stuttgart in the last round put extra pressure on us to get a result, so it is a bit of a relief. "With their tradition Rangers were never going to give up - a lot of European teams would not have shown the resilience that Rangers did. That's a British spirit thing. "Winning 1-0 is a very dodgy result, you never know what is going to happen so we are relieved and satisfied. I enjoyed it - I always enjoy coming back to Glasgow and the fans were great to me. "It was always going to be tough here. It was a great game of football, the atmosphere was terrific, the pitch was great and Rangers gave it everything. Alex [McLeish] will be very pleased with his players." United had to withstand concerted Rangers pressure after taking a fifth-minute lead through Phil Neville, and Ferguson suggested that the goal had come a bit too soon in the match for his side to establish a rhythm. "In the first half maybe we scored too early - we found it hard to get a tempo going, but in the second half we did. After scoring early we sat back a little bit and didn't make the right choices when counter-attacking." It was Neville's second goal in Europe and he is currently enjoying the most productive phase of his career. "It is the biggest goal I have scored but tonight was all about getting the three points," he said, before modestly deflecting praise to his team-mates. "I think there were more heroes in our team than myself. I thought the two centre-backs and the goalkeeper were fantastic. They stood strong under a lot of pressure." www.soccerage.com http://www.red11.org/news ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Rent DVDs from home. Over 14,500 titles. Free Shipping & No Late Fees. Try Netflix for FREE! http://us.click.yahoo.com/mk9osC/hP.FAA/3jkFAA/GtUolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Subscription info WWW http://red11.org/list Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] = subscribe to the list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] = unsubscribe from the list. Post message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
