United ‘come to bury Caesar not praise him’

ALEX FERGUSON has built his career on a ruthless competitive streak and the Manchester United manager made it clear that he will not let sentiment get in the way against Rangers, the team he supported as a boy and played for as a young man.

The links between Ferguson and Rangers are many, not least that the Glasgow club's current boss Alex McLeish was one of his favourite players at Aberdeen, but the United manager made it clear the mutual admiration society will not be at Ibrox tonight.

"Alex has done very well and to have won a treble with players he had inherited is a remarkable feat that's never easy," said Ferguson at a press conference at Ibrox last night, just a few hundred yards from his boyhood home in Govan.