Manchester United Face Local Rivals

Sir Alex Ferguson

Barclays Premier League lead­ers Manchester United pre­pare to take on Owen Coyle’s Bolton Wan­der­ers out­fit at Ree­bok Sta­dium this Sat­urday. Sir Alex Ferguson´s play­ers come into this encounter on the back of a highly impress­ive 8–2 trash­ing against fel­low title chal­lengers Arsenal at Old Traf­ford, while Bolton were beaten to the tune of 3–1 by a quick and strong Liv­er­pool side at Anfield Road in their last league match.

Sir Alex Fer­guson: “I think that you could say that five or six teams will be involved. It is always hard to win the Eng­lish Premier League. It is a league that if you look at it, in the south you have the Lon­don teams like Arsenal, Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur and Chelsea and then you have Manchester United, Manchester City and Liv­er­pool in the north. It is a really, really dif­fi­cult league to win. You have to try and build a team that will last for a good few sea­sons. Manchester United have done that quite suc­cess­fully over the years. This is another example of trust­ing the young play­ers and giv­ing them opportunities.”

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