by MaineRoadMemories » Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:23 pm
Tempers soar as temperatures plunge in derby grudge match
Sir Alex Ferguson was left so incensed and enraged at full time at the City of Manchester Stadium that he could have melted the snow with this stare alone.
The heat was turned up in the 10th minute when Paul Scholes, famous for this tackling ability, lunged in 25 yards out of his own box. Whilst everyone in the ground was expecting nothing more than a yellow, Mike Dean had other ideas and sent him off for violent conduct.
The resulting freekick added insult to injury as Tevez curled the ball over the top of the wall and past the floundering dive of Ben Foster. Tevez ran to the North Stand and proceeded do his now customary "dance" celebration. All this went unnoticed by Ferguson as he was still assaulting fourth official Clattenburg. It was left to Mike Phelan to give the bad news that United were 1 nil down.
The second half burst into life on 76 minutes, a wonderful flowing move by City cut apart United's shaky defence with Barry provding the perfect final ball for Tevez to run onto and smash it into the roof of the net from 8 yards out.
As 6000 United supporters looked on at their former hero shaking his booty right in front of them all that could be heared ringing in their ears was 36,000 delirious City fans singing "Fergie Sign Him Up, Fergie, Fergie Sign Him Up" at such a volume that the snow was shaken from the roof!
A bad tempered game was coming to its conclusion with the United players outclassed in midfield and resorting to kicking tactics the biggest controversy of the night unfolded. Clattenburg put the board up and a considerable groan went around the ground as a quite frankly bizarre 7 minutes of injury time now dubbed FergieTime was to be played.
However, United, as shadow of their former self, could not muster up a single attack in injury time - instead the glory fell to one Carlos Tevez. 6 minutes and 30 seconds into stoppage time the diminutive Argentinean robbed Fletcher 20 yards into his own half and went on a searing run past Carrick and Valenica. A lovely timed one-two with Bellamy around Wes Brown and Tevez was through on goal. A delightful lob over Foster ended the perfect night for Tevez and Manchester City.
However, their could be repercussions for the Eastlands outfit from the FA in similar vein to Adebayor incident against Arsenal. After scoring Tevez raced half the length of the pitch and into the Manchester United technical area and screamed in the face of Ferguson from less than 6 inches away. In shock, the aging manager slipped on ice and feel over. Roberto Mancini helped Sir Alex back to his feet by extending his scarf to the floor.
In the post match interview when questioned about what was said to Ferguson Tevez simply replied "Que?"
So I wished would happen very, very, very much :-)