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Last updated : 30 December 2005 By Editor
Sir Alex Ferguson on Ronaldo, injuries and Brum.

"We have a problem with Ronaldo. Every time he gets the ball, the crowd boo - and the referee has listened to the crowd. There is no question about that.

"Ronaldo was clearly brought down by Nicky Butt. I don't know what you can do about things.

But the booing is unfair to the boy because he is such a great player.

"It was frustrating. If the referee watches the game and does not listen to the crowd, then OK, but that is not the case."

"It was a real cup tie game and a draw was a fair result. The disappointment is we led twice and never won. The defending for the second goal was very poor. We can't accept that kind of defending.

"I know you can make a case for the fact that Wes Brown and Mikael Silvestre were out injured and we had to play young Kieran Richardson at full-back but we should be doing better than that. Giving away two goals like that is not like us.

"We had the chance to finish it off at 2-1 but I had a feeling when we didn't get the first goal that we would suffer for it."

"It is a bad result for us. But we have to go again. We have been playing well and there is a good spirit about us.

"We have played some terrific football tonight in the final third of the field and Wayne Rooney and Ruud van Nistelrooy were fantastic."