Can you hear the footsteps, Jose?

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A week later, Alex Ferguson was able to exert more psychological pressure on the West London side having reduced that advantage to just seven points. Which of the two managers do you think is sleeping the more soundly these days?

Whether by accident or design, Ferguson is currently overseeing one of the most remarkable comebacks since, well, since his Manchester United side overhauled Kevin Keegan’s spineless Newcastle outfit ten years ago. Pilloried by his failure to strengthen a midfield rendered toothless by Roy Keane’s departure, preferring instead to draft in two distinctly ordinary defenders in Patrice Evra and Nemanja Vidic last January, the manager has suddenly produced a side capable of piecing together a run worthy of United in their pomp.