Hargreaves ‘guinea pig’ claims false, says Fergie

MANCHESTER UNITED have rejected Owen Hargreaves’ claims he was incorrectly given injections to cure long-standing knee problems during his time at Old Trafford.

In the aftermath of Wednesday’s Carling Cup win for Manchester City against Birmingham, when Hargreaves marked his Blues debut with a goal, the 30-year-old outlined the unhappiness over sections of the treatment he received to combat a tendinitis injury he had before leaving Bayern Munich in 2007.

Hargreaves said in the end, he felt like “a guinea pig” such were the revolutionary treatments he was forced to undergo in an effort to solve a problem he felt had been exacerbated by the injections.