{"id":18142,"date":"2013-02-19T13:51:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T11:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/i-scrapped-my-plans-for-man-united-says-fergie\/"},"modified":"2013-02-19T13:51:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T11:51:29","slug":"i-scrapped-my-plans-for-man-united-says-fergie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/i-scrapped-my-plans-for-man-united-says-fergie\/","title":{"rendered":"I scrapped my plans for Man United, says Fergie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Ferguson has labelled Manchester United\u2019s 12-point lead over Manchester City at the top of the English Premier League \u201csensational\u201d, reports the Guardian.<\/p>\n

In his programme notes ahead of Monday\u2019s FA Cup fifth round tie with Reading, Ferguson wrote of the last round of league games nine days ago: \u201cOnce I knew City had lost [at Southampton, 3-1] we\u2019d been gifted an enormous opportunity to push on.<\/p>\n

\u201cA nine-point lead was good but not sensational \u2013 the chance of a 12-point advantage was a different story, so I scrapped my plans to rest a fair number of players [for Everton] with Real Madrid in mind three days later.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a strong side out and I think the players sensed the opening for them was there.\u201d Everton were beaten.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a great weekend for Manchester United fans,\u201d Ferguson added. \u201cFirst up for celebration was defeat for our nearest rivals, followed by our 2-0 win over Everton at Old Trafford.\u201d \u2013 guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Ferguson has labelled Manchester United\u2019s 12-point lead over Manchester City at the top of the English Premier League \u201csensational\u201d, reports the Guardian. In his programme notes ahead of Monday\u2019s FA Cup fifth round tie with Reading, Ferguson wrote of the last round of league games nine days ago: \u201cOnce I knew City had lost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}