PAUL PARKER WADES IN

Last updated : 31 October 2005 By editor

Parker said: “The manager loves players with hunger but that has been taken away from players nowadays with the way things have gone in the game. Every player under Sir Alex had hunger in seasons gone by but it’s getting harder and harder for him to find those kind of players able to play for the club.”

And it’s very difficult to be able to do the ‘hairdryer’ to players now because they are different. But he’ll let them know exactly how he feels.

“This has been waiting to happen for quite a while, though. Little things have masked it but it’s now all happened in one game. I wouldn’t have wanted to be sat on the coach back from Middlesbrough because no one can get a pat on the back for that performance.”