FERGIE HAS A THINLY DISGUISED SWIPE AT ARSENAL

Last updated : 30 January 2005 By Editor

"We have great discipline in this club and it's not by accident because there is a good discipline about the players personally and a good discipline about me.

"I pride myself on discipline and I am going there with an absolute clear conscience about how we will play and behave.

"We'll play with great tenacity, great commitment and determination. Hopefully with great skill too and I hope we'll then get the result we want."

"The behaviour of both sets of players is important to make sure the match is refereeable - other than that I have nothing to say.

"We don't want any trouble on Tuesday so it's important we just concentrate on the football, as we always do.

"It will be a hostile atmosphere but our players have been in far more hostile arenas than Highbury.

"Players like Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, Scholes and the Nevilles have been to places when the chips are down, the atmosphere is unbelievable and you have to get a result.

"When United go to Liverpool and Leeds it is a fantastic atmosphere, a cauldron - something with real hostility.

"Arsenal and United games have no tradition of that, but it will be intense and hostile and an incredible atmosphere for the players to play in."