manchester's guys plays very well face a great team,but cristiano,rooney,ferdinando and anderson those boys are in perfomace the highest level.

Hilson M.Breckenfeld Filho, recife, brasil/pernambuco

would anybody like another grape?? They are not very sweet...

james , manchester,

Robert, how do you know that Ferguson is "not exactly one of the sharpest knives in the drawer"? Is this a class prejudice on your part because he is a working class Scot? Those that know him speak of a man with great intelligence and a hinterland of broad interests. He may lack formal qualifications but that is his background (he was an apprentice toolmaker) and typical of professional footballers in these Isles. Don't be blinded by the supposed intellectual superiority of foreign managers!

Phil Daniels, Newcastle upon Tyne,

We in France can only watch the Premier League in awe and through telescopes as if another galaxy altogether, given the etheral gap between our Ligue 1 and the majestic show that the players routinely come up with on the latter's pitches.
Ironically enough, there are scores of French players on your teams, possibly even more than English ones - I admit this might be far-fetched, but like all their teammates from abroad they have adjusted to domestic rule according to which you win games by scoring more than the opposing squad, while the rule in France is that you do by letting the other team score as little as possible, which became a dogma when we won the world cup in 1998 rather by preventing than creating. And it works, too, as the gang of four in the quarter finals testifies.

Onulf, PONTARLIER, France

Robert, it always amazes me that fans underestimate managers. Who created the dominant resources of Manchester United if not Ferguson? They were not a dominant team when he arrived. He's been there for around 20% of their history and has won more than 50% of their trophies. Is that cerebral enough for you?

Tom Kinninmont, London, England

United played the way one dreams that England could play.

TonyR, Oxford, UK

Rob. Maybe Ferguson should have won more trophies in Europe because he only has the 3 top level wins. What I would say is that he has been unlucky that during his term the format of the European Cup has changed. It arguable but I'm sure their tallies of European Cups would have been much higher by now if it had been in the old format. Currently the competition is extremly difficult to win because at the quarter final stage you normally have at least 5 of the best teams in Europe still left, unlike in the previous format when you probably had 1 or 2 left at this stage. Sometime 0.

Ste Carter, Onchan, Isle of Man

Tom, I think you mean English league football, staffed by some of the brightest and best from around the world, including tallented Scots. I bow to no man in my admiration for Ferguson, but he's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer and on occasion had proved to be somewhat tactically naive. It's arguable that a more cerebral manager with Man Utd's resources would have been more successful in Europe.

Robert Allen, Greenwich, London

quite a disciplined destruction of what appeared to be an undisciplined roma team. united showed europe and the world just what makes british football simply the best. money can buy class but it takes a great manager to put it all together. a firm hand at the helm and the canny scottish mind will ensure united are and always will be one of the best.

thomas ovens bonnar, dunbar, scotland