TIMMY THANKS THE LORD

Last updated : 11 November 2003 By editor

He said: "We were just relieved that Heskey slipped in the last minute. It was a good pass to put him in, but as he went to shoot his standing foot slipped and the chance was gone."

"Neither of the other two sides up at the top is conceding very much, so we know we have to keep scrapping and pushing to stay in contention. Nobody is giving anything away. When we see the others winning we have to do the same. We feel the key is to stay in touch with the other two sides at the top, Arsenal and Chelsea. It looks like it is going to be between us three."

"We won but it was not a great performance by United in the first half, but we came in at the break at 0-0, and we were happy about that. But even when we were 2-0 up we did not believe the job was done. They continued to prove very difficult opponents."