LOOKING GOOD

Last updated : 04 February 2003 By editor
Sir Alex Ferguson thinks the reason Manchester United have rediscovered their will to win is because key players are all at peak fitness again.

Ferguson has revealed that Roy Keane, Rio Ferdinand and Nicky Butt might not have needed surgery as quickly as they had it, but he wanted them fully fit for the run-in.

"They could have struggled on perhaps having treatment every day, but we decided they should have the operations,it wasn't a gamble," he added.

"We have got plenty in the tank in terms of energy and freshness but the most important thing is what is within the players themselves,they have shown a great desire to win matches, and you can't win games in the last minute like we have done in the last few weeks without having that great desire to do it.”