No joke as Fergie’s tough talk gets hammered

IT WAS a long, drawn-out footballing weekend, a rollercoaster ride spread over three days.

And it started so well on Friday: we discovered Lille will be our next Euro-opponents, a team who’ve already lost five domestic matches and who would not normally be expected to trouble us. Erm, except for last season, of course (ahem).

Fergie assures us we are “a different team” now, and that French lightning will not strike twice. Yes, apparently we are no longer the kind of outfit that visits struggling lesser lights and loses to sucker-punches (double ahem).