Ferguson trusts players to put game ‘beyond fate’

ALEX FERGUSON is putting fate to one side and instead trusting the players of Manchester United and Barcelona to put on a show to remember in Rome tonight.

Ferguson’s two previous Champions League wins have come attached with a heavy dose of nostalgia given that miraculous comeback in the Nou Camp in 1999 came on what would have been Matt Busby’s 90th birthday.

Last season in Moscow, United produced the most fitting tribute to the 50th anniversary of the air crash at Munich by lifting European football’s biggest club prize once more. There are other reasons to crave a win this time around as Busby’s 100th birthday would have been Monday.