Ferguson has high praise for old adversary and ‘winner’ Wenger

WHEN Arsene Wenger was famously declaring at Bolton in January 2005 that he would “never talk about that man again”, the image of him one day riding off into the sunset with Sir Alex Ferguson was pretty hard to conjure.

Yet that was the pay-off line Ferguson delivered as he ended a fulsome tribute to the man who will go down as the one who challenged him the most, and longest, during almost three decades in England.

The pair have been scrapping away for 13 years now, and at no point has the mutual respect been as evident as it is now.