Source: Daily_Mail
Angry Man United boss Ferguson blasts critics: Leave my kids alone!
Sir Alex Ferguson has hit back at critics of Manchester United's young players and has reminded them of what can happen to pundits when they choose to write off his players. [LNB]BBC football expert Alan Hansen was famously left to rue his judgment when he suggested that Ferguson would 'win nothing with kids' after blooding the David Beckham and Paul Scholes generation at the start of the 1995-96 season. [LNB]That team went on to win the league and dominate English football for years and Ferguson has warned that critics of his current crop of youngsters have left themselves vulnerable to similar embarrassment in the future. [LNB]So close: Federico Macheda reacts after going close late on against Besiktas last weel[LNB]The United manager will once again throw young players such as Federico Macheda, Danny Welbeck and Darron Gibson into action in the Carling Cup quarter-final at home to Tottenham on Tuesday, just a week after they lost 1-0 at home to Besiktas in the Champions League. [LNB]Ferguson said: 'It will be the same players who played on Wednesday, despite the criticism they got. [LNB]'Someone wrote that there's no future for these players, that there's no tomorrow for them. What an idiot. I couldn't believe that.[LNB]'I played six players two18-year-olds, a 19-year-old, a20-year-old and two 21-year-olds in a European game and people say there's no future for them.[LNB]'It's unbelievable. [LNB]'When David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and all those lads made their debuts as a group, they were 22 years of age, three years ahead of these players. [LNB]'The difference with that guy is it gets buried in the middle of a wee article in the newspaper, whereas Alan Hansen did it in front of millions of people and got slaughtered for it. [LNB]Angry: Sir Alex Ferguson has blasted critics of his Manchester United youngsters[LNB]'It's amazing isn't it, but anyway. Of course they will grow from that experience. I was confident playing them, they had every right to be played and they will play against Tottenham, too.' [LNB]United reached the final of the Carling Cup last season, beating tonight's opponents on penalties thanks to the fine saves of reserve goalkeeper Ben Foster. [LNB]Last week in Europe, Ferguson believes his young side suffered only from a lack of experience. [LNB]'It's the one thing we have to give them,' he added. [LNB]'The one thing we can't give them is that old head. What happened in the last third of the field, they got anxious. [LNB]'They had good chances but hurried things. That's not the biggest crime in the world. We're not talking about ability here, we are talking about just a bit of experience. That is why we have to play them. [LNB]'They are stacking up, these players we have a lot of young players who need to be challenged. And I thought they did OK. I don't think they deserved that type of criticism.'I have their futures well mapped out, I think.'[LNB] Macheda and Welbeck set to lead Manchester United attack against SpursGiggs to be offered new deal to stay at Manchester United until 2011MANCHESTER UNITED FC
