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Originally Posted by Shadow Demon UK

Were people criticising Fergie for playing Beckham, Scholes, Butt, Giggs, Neville etc when they were young and coming up from the reserves? He played a team that was good enough to win yesterday and nearly did if it wasn't for a poor refereeing decision, i fail to see how thats disrespectful, fielding a team thats played in most rounds of the FA cup and won the League cup. If squad rotation and giving young players a chance is disrespectful and breaks the rules so be it, but in my opinion it isn't.

People were criticising Fergie back then too. Remember Hansen's quote "You'll never win anything with kids". League and Cup double that season and a fair bit of silverware with the odd kid thrown in since....... and plenty of criticism each time they don't win.