Fergie:
"A trophy is a trophy, and it's an important trophy.
"You'd have to say that the European Cup is a bonus thing, the Premier League is something we expect to be involved in, seriously involved in, and we're not this season, so that's a disappointment. Winning the FA Cup is a repayment for the work you have to put in, it's always the last game of the season, always an occasion, and we've been fortunate to win it five times in my time.
Commenting on Rooney's first chance of a cup: "For any young player coming to this club in his first season, it is important to win a trophy. It's the same as when [Gary] Pallister, [Mike] Phelan, [Paul] Ince and [Danny] Wallace joined us in 1989. We won a trophy in that first year. We developed and blossomed from that."