From The Independent on Sunday:
If Magnier and McManus, whose running row with Ferguson has its roots not in football but in horseracing, did not already realise it they now know not to expect any sympathy from the fans if they challenge the club's remarkably successful manager. After all, Ferguson has given United the same sort of powerful position in their field as, say, the Irish pair's Coolmore Stud in theirs. At regular intervals United fans put down their anti-Magnier banners again to produce more outpourings of adulation. "It was great," said Ferguson in untouchable mode. "I wouldn't say it gives me inner strength, though I have never lacked that."