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"City fans making trouble," was his terse observation, but it hurt, nevertheless. After all, he had only brought nine trophies to Old Trafford at a rate of one a year.The opprobrium heaped on Ferguson's head last summer was provoked by what many considered to be his stubborn faith in youngsters. If there are no red faces in Manchester this week, then there ought to be. Last August a telephone poll in the Manchester Evening News voted that Ferguson should either jump or be pushed from his job. There have been some lavish compliments heading in Alex Ferguson's direction this week that have included conferring greatness on the Manchester United manager But then there has been some serious sucking up to do. Most of it has come from journalists who, nine months ago, were questioning Ferguson's reasons when he let Mark Hughes, Andrei Kanchelskis and Paul Ince go, although more than one supporter should be contrite. "I go round on a daily basis so I can consider every option, but the final decision is mine.''These days, Evans revealed, the hard talking is done in a store room at the training ground.

"The Melwood store room" may not have quite the same ring as the Anfield boot room, yet its members could soon be pouring their cuppa from the Cup itself.. Doug had worked with Terry (Venables) and Peter Shreeves at Tottenham. But he also had the Anfield connection - we played together in Shanks's time.''In devising a strategy to unpick United, Evans will consult everyone from Livermore to the youth coach, Hugh McAuley, a fellow Bootle boy and Shankly apprentice. He will also canvass the people who must put it into practice, like John Barnes, whom he regards as a manager in the making. Bruce Grobbelaar once likened them to a detective double act, with Evans the "good, sympathetic cop" and "Bugsy" Moran "the hard man".Evans' assistant, Doug Livermore, had dual qualifications for the new boot room "We wanted someone with experience outside of Liverpool. Steve Heighway holds Saunders' old brief.Moran, the first-team coach, has devoted his working life, now in its 45th year, to a club he joined (like Evans) as a teenaged left-back. Ron Yeats, the captain Shankly called "my colossus", is chief scout Sammy Lee takes the reserves.