Fergie finds a way when all others trip and fall

ARSENE WENGER came into the pressroom at Stoke’s Britannia Stadium and stared up at a TV screen that showed Manchester United leading Chelsea 1-0 with only a couple of minutes on the clock.

Eager journalists rushed to be first with the bad news. “First minute.” “36 seconds.” “Hernandez.”

Wenger didn’t seem interested. For all his talk of mental strength and mathematics, he knew his team had blown it weeks ago.