Guus Hiddink stole a page out of the Kevin Keegan managerial playbook last night as he told Sir Alex Ferguson: “I would love it if we can kill your Quintuple dream.”
Hiddink’s
And while Hiddink’s pledge to stop United’s relentless glory quest was far more measured than Keegan’s infamous 1996 rant as
“I hope we can stop him,” said Hiddink. “I would love to stop him in this aim.
“Of course I am not naive. In the championship they have a lead and a very strong squad, so realistically it will be very difficult.
“My main objective when I started talking to
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“Anything above that was extra, but what I like is a team that doesn’t give up and as long as there is a possibility, you never know.
“We have the ambition to go on and arrive at the end of May playing in the important games.
“If we do that, then we can stop them. We would have classical clashes between two powerhouses, but let’s make a few steps first.”
Hiddink, set to be without toe-injury victim and top scorer Nicolas Anelka at
But he insisted: “I don’t know if people are scared of him - but I’m not scared.
“I don’t know him well but I know he is addicted to football, as he showed when he tried to pack it in a few years ago and realised he’d get bored if he was just looking out of his window at 10am and drinking coffee.
“Football is in his body and when you manage to do what he’s done for many years, in his own style, having always managed to have a very competitive squad, there’s a lot of respect. But we have our targets.”
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