Rather than heralding his side’s “huge achievement” at reaching a second straight FA Cup final – after blowing a 3-0 lead with 20 minutes to go and receiving a VAR let-off in the final minute of extra time – Ten Hag should have borrowed from former United boss Sir Alex Ferguson.
After his Aberdeen side beat Rangers 1-0 in extra time to win the Scottish Cup in 1983, a scowling Ferguson refused to praise his players, choosing instead to berate them for what he saw as a betrayal of the standards he had set.
“We’re the luckiest team in the world,” growled Ferguson in a memorable post-match interview, the clip resurfacing on social media in the wake of United’s implosion against Coventry.
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