SMITH WAS SECOND CHOICE

Last updated : 07 March 2004 By United
Ferguson on the appointment of Walter Smith:

"His experience is important and he is the type of character
who can walk into this dressing room without a problem and
he's got about things right away. There was someone else I'd
been talking to but that fell away a few weeks ago and I had
to do something.''

The Times believe it was Valladolid manager Fernando Vasquez