This isn’t a prediction, but in keeping with a season when ithas made an art of winning the hard way, here’s how ManchesterUnited should collect the last point it requires on Saturday toknock Liverpool off that famous perch that two decades ago lookedunattainable.Away to Blackburn, United plays with half a brain for 45minutes, goes two goals down. Alex Ferguson, as sharp at age 69 asfreshly squeezed limes, conjures up yet another cunning plan andrejigs his team in the second half (Ryan Giggs in goal, perhaps?After all, that’s one of the few positions United’s model veteranhas not played this year). United scratches out the result it needsin the dying minutes, perhaps with a goal from the best bargain ofthe season, Javier Hernandez.Not pretty, not terribly convincing, but so fitting.The Premier League champions in all but name are not the mostglamorous or most talented of the umpteen teams that Ferguson hasbarked, beaten and bullied into shape in the quarter-century thatthe football-holic Scotsman has worked week-in, week-out tooverhaul Liverpool’s mark of 18 league titles, a single-mindedpursuit that would make weaker men blanch.Which, in a way, also makes this team one of his best. Makingdiamonds shine is easy. Making gems of lesser stones takes… Read full this story
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