The benefit of being Fergie is when you're labelled as cracking up, you still go on to win things. I'd never argue about him being a nice man, or particularly media savvy, but he's the best manager in the modern era.
If you'd like to label Fergie a hypocrite, that's fine. I'll put him into the 'managers that have made hypocritical statements' bucket. With every single other manager that has ever lived.
If I were you I'd be more worried about making this 'your year'. Because I honestly believe that with the momentum, players and general situation of other teams this will be your one shot at it. Fail and some of your 'world class spine' will likely think it's not worth the effort, plus the only two nailed on pool players (Gerrard and Carragher) aren't exactly getting any younger. I still think you can win the league, particularly if Rafa cops out of the other competitions to focus, which will result in a schedule similar to last year for you - 1 game every 10 games in show in crunch time. Not that it helped.
