IF EVER WE NEEDED AN INCENTIVE.......

Last updated : 28 November 2004 By Editor

"It seems there's just something missing there (at United), a little click. We've definitely got it and Chelsea definitely have it now. It seems like us and Chelsea. And regaining the title is definitely the main aim for us. Of course we want to do well in the Champions League but it's so hard to do well in both. Man U proved they can do it but they were quite lucky against Bayern Munich

"We lost the game (last month at O.T.) and it is hard not to think about it because it's in every paper: who did this, who did that. And I was named - shock. It's just so annoying when you see your name in the paper for these things you didn't do. I didn't chuck anything. I weren't even there, nowhere near it. I was in the changing room. Soup! Crazy.

"Of course there were tackles, and there was the penalty, but passion runs high in these games and both teams are so eager to win. But I did think the media blew it out of proportion - a bit.

Everyone saying we were chucking food, or there was a big fight in the tunnel. It wasn't like that. Of course a few things happened that shouldn't have happened but tempers were running high. But I talk to Gary Neville and we laugh about it now. Yet it is still in the paper - "Pizza-throwing II" when we play them at Old Trafford."