It absolutely was Bill Shankly who said soccer is really a easy game that people could be well advised to not make complicated and probably in that spirit Sir Alex Ferguson has just unveiled the trick of his extraordinary success. "At a team like Manchester United there is a hope to live up to," Ferguson said. "You really need to get all the full time and that is all there is to it." Ferguson has applied that strategy therefore effectively that by rights the guard of honor at the Emirates on Sunday should be solely for his advantage since, with 13 English titles to his name, the United director has only equalled Arsenal's all-time cart, amassed over nine years dating back to to Herbert Chapman and like the not inconsiderable advantages of ArsAne Wenger and George Graham. As Arsenal are the third most successful club in English category record, with only Manchester United and Liverpool put above them, that bare reality alone stands as a to the unprecedented level of what Ferguson has accomplished. A number of the most lauded and respected professionals in the game have finished on the surface of the heap on only two or three occasions a Shankly, Brian Clough and Bill Nicholson, to select three greatly iconic numbers, handled six games between them a' while Ferguson long ago moved from the darkness of his nearest modern challengers in Bob Paisley (six) and Matt Busby (five). It's hard to think now but, when Ferguson arrived at Old Trafford in 1986, these five Busby titles formed the bulk of United's fairly puny total of seven league championships. Liverpool's complete 27 years ago stood at 16 and could rise to 18 before United may begin the knocking-off-the-perch exercise, however once that process was under way yet another sign of its thoroughness is that the Anfield history has remained unchanged, a guess set in the upper strata of pre-Premier League stone. At danger of causing more pain than is strictly necessary to the Merseyside end of the great north-west competition, it ought to be recognized that were Ferguson a slightly younger man he could soon be looking at bringing in Liverpool's all-time record in the identical way as he's managed to match Arsenal's. At his current rate of accumulation another decade might be taken only by it. That, one trusts, is fantasy, yet for one director to accomplish in just over two decades what the country's top groups have loaded up in more than a century of existence is in the areas of the significantly unbelievable. His achievements are more remarkable to take place against a backdrop of big financial skepticism at home, with the Glazer takeover loading the club with barely manageable amounts of debt, at an occasion when rivals such as Chelsea and Manchester City were making large strides through finding backers of amazing wealth. Nobody could say English football has been uncompetitive during Ferguson's leadership, with Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal all achieving European Cup finals and the neighbours becoming loud for initially in 40-odd years, although what seems to have worked in United's favor is the top-four situation, where pretty much the exact same groups challenge for the elite places each season and at least two wind up dropping out of the title race to focus on securing their Champions League position. What United do nowadays to gain their games is not wait until the 96th minute to report successful against Sheffield Wednesday, or lower Kevin Keegan to a wreck on live tv, but establish their major competitors, fit them up and play the long game. Ferguson's own longevity has made them adept at that. It is possible that JosA Mourinho would have given him more of a work for his money by remaining a few more times at Chelsea, though it is essential to remember that United had already re-established themselves as winners by getting down to a flying begin in the 2006-07 period and were section of the reason the pressure developed at Stamford Bridge a few months later. That three-year break in the centre of the final decade is the longest United have had to await a Premier League prize, which is one reason Ferguson is seldom said to be under pressure from supporters. He has had his critics from time to time and even been accused of losing the story but he has yet to reduce his eye for a player or his appetite for success. Introducing a group title to the board every other period approximately tends to block out dissenting voices, not to mention appealing to the inner daughter or son of move targets such as for example Robin van Persie. It may be a freedom unusual in a single who has spent nearly all of his working career being proved spectacularly right, when there is a secret, apart from the distinctive adventure of get a handle on he has created around himself. Nevertheless he does not feel he has seen everything, refuses to become set in his methods and is forever ready to learn. "You need to, your competition is much more dangerous now," Ferguson said. "I think what's important is to keep looking forward instead of looking back." The United director mightn't have placed herself in line for any talent-spotting honors by signing Van Persie to create the difference this year, although dramatically what he did do was break his or her own tip about the preferred age of inward participants, pay a significant amount of cash to a major competitor for a 29-year-old with an archive of accidents and not give two hoots what effect the newest acquisition might have on Wayne Rooney. Something had a need to change, so Ferguson changed it and adapted. Not every manager might have done the same however the whole point about Ferguson is that he isn't just any old manager. He is old okay but nevertheless striking and probably getting bigger. He could keep this show on the road for a serious while yet. Arsenal v Manchester United, 4pm SS1
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