Fergie: ‘patience and planning’ key to building latest team

MANCHESTER United coach Alex Ferguson has described his young team as “little lions at play” and the United dressing-room as “a theatre of comedy” before Sunday’s lunchtime clash against Liverpool. He also revealed that this season’s impressive side is the result of years of planning and patience and said that his passion for the game remains as strong as ever.

“As you get older sometimes you say, ‘When do I finish?’ and then I see all these young boys out on the training field, and you become invigorated,” he told French tv station Canal Plus.

“I enjoy watching them, because with young people, you get the humour. They are still kids, little lions at play. They like to have fun and enjoy themselves. The dressing-room is the best place in the world. It’s a theatre of comedy.”