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Sir Alex Ferguson ha lanciato un pesante attacco contro i rivali del Manchester City dopo la campagna pubblicitaria che ha visto la città tappezzata da manifesti di Carlitos Tevez, l’ attaccante passato dai “Red Devils” alla “Blue Moon”, recanti la scritta “Wellcome to Manchester”. Secondo l’ allenatore del Man U il City sarebbe “un piccolo club di stupidi ed arroganti con poca mentalità”. Intanto circola in rete anche una versione burla del detto cartellone pubblicitario creata dai sostenitori dei “Citizens”: Owen, neo acquisto dei campioni d’ Inghilterra, con le stampelle e la scritta “Wellcome to Stretford”. In campo, intanto, la musica non pare cambiata per il City nonostante l’ ennesima campagna acquisti milionaria: nell’ uscita pre- campionato di Pretoria i sudafricani del Kaizer Chiefs hanno superato la squadra di Hughes. In Scozia, invece, ai tifosi degli Hearts non piace la prospettiva di esordire nella “SPL” di lunedì sera, a solo tre giorni, tra l’altro, da un impegno europeo. I fans criticano apertamente un calcio i cui calendari sono sempre più dettate dalle esigenze delle tv.

 

Manchester City 1 United 0: Fergie rattled by Tevez jibe and brands City ‘stupid and arrogant’

By Sportsmail Reporter Last updated at 8:46 PM on 25th July 2009

“Sir Alex Ferguson has launched an extraordinary attack on Manchester City, labelling United’s big-spending neighbours ‘stupid and arrogant’ and a ‘small club with a small mentality’.Clearly angry at City’s attempts to portray themselves as rivals for silverware this season and as Manchester’s ‘real’ club, in particular by celebrating the capture of United striker Carlos Tevez on a huge city centre billboard, Ferguson dismissed their chances of reaching even the top four this season.And he claimed that their new £25million striker, Emmanuel Adebayor, had actually been offered to United and Chelsea after he had agreed the deal to leave Arsenal for City, whom he believes are attracting players mainly because they are paying big wages.Ferguson’s attack on City came in an interview during United’s four-match Far Eastern tour which ends with a game in China today. United believe the thousands of fans who have been flocking even to watch them train confirms that they are still the biggest club in the world, despite the riches now available to City manager Mark Hughes after the takeover by Sheik Mansour.Calling City’s decision to plaster one side of a building on Manchester’s central Deansgate with a huge poster of Tevez proclaiming ‘Welcome to Manchester’ – United’s stadium is sited in the adjacent Borough of Trafford – ‘stupid and arrogant’ Ferguson said: ‘It’s City isn’t it? They are a small club, with a small mentality. All they can talk about is Manchester United, that’s all they’ve done and they can’t get away from it.

 

‘It is a go at us, that’s the one thing it is. They think taking Tevez away from Manchester United is a triumph. It is poor stuff. I thought he would go to City a long time ago.’Ferguson agrees that City’s spending has added spice to the coming season, but he claims that Mark Hughes’s expensively assembled team will still struggle to break up the big four of United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal. He picks out the Gunners, however, as the club most likely to concede ground.”City will want to be challenging for the top four, but it won’t be easy,’ said Sir Alex. ‘That top four has been established for quite a while.

In the end it was Jeffrey Ntuka’s effort minutes before half-time that proved the difference between the two sides.

Former Arsenal striker Adebayor, signed this week from Arsenal for £25m, was handed a first start by Mark Hughes, while another new-boy, Gareth Barry, also played alongside the likes of Shay Given, Nigel de Jong, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Craig Bellamy.After a quiet start Martin Petrov and Adebayor both were on the wrong ends of clattering challenges by Chiefs players during the opening 14 minutes, but survived to play on.But City youngster Javan Vidal, a product of the club’s academy, was not so fortunate and was forced off the field after 20 minutes following a collision with Chiefs goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune – Tal Ben-Haim coming on in his place.

Barry had the first real chance for his side after another good cross from the left touchline by the lively Petrov, but his 18-yard shot just short of the half-hour mark was straight at the Chiefs goalkeeper.The visitors then made another change shortly before the break replacing Richard Dunne with Pablo Zabaleta as the City captain aggravated a knee injury.In front of goal, all the signs continued to look encouraging with Petrov, Adebayor and Bellamy linking up nicely, until the final ball, which let Hughes’ side down.But it was the visiting goalkeeper Given that was forced to make the first real save, which was in the 41st minute when Nkosinathi Nhleko’s shot caused the Republic of Ireland international to dive low to his left and tip the ball wide.

The resulting George Lebese corner caused panic in the penalty area and Ntuka drove the ball home from close-range to hand his side the half-time lead, albeit with a suspicion of handball in his control.City kept the same players on after the restart with Adebayor’s timely run 10 minutes in almost paying dividends, but, after seeing his initial cross-goal pass come back into his path, the Togo striker blazed over when he should have hit the target.Three minutes later, newly-married Robinho was thrown on for Petrov, but he too failed to inspire the Eastlands club with even half chances proving few and far between.

With 25 minutes to play, a head injury brought Nedum Onuoha’s game to an end – Vladimir Weiss coming on in his place.And the Slovak winger almost helped his side snatch a late goal when his mazy run down the right saw him feed the ball to Robinho, who somehow dragged his shot wide as the game ended disappointingly for the visitors.”

 

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