Tinkering is not the way to go Fergie

SO, did we get safely through last night?

Last week, the Lyon president observed it would be “catastrophic” for United if we fell, which wasn’t overstating the case: given the virtual weekend-off the team had at Craven Cottage, it’d be almost inexcusable.

You know the basic script by now: fans hate tinkering, management loves it. We tend to grumble that in the Good Old Days, tiny non-rotated squads would play just as many matches in a season as do today’s spoilt Fauntleroys, on much worse pitches too, without a word of complaint. We are told that today’s faster game requires more resting but surely the improvement in training technology and practices should compensate for that? Liverpool won titles and European crowns with 14 players; even as recently as 1994, United almost won a treble with, in essence, 13 players.