James Lawton: If Ferguson wins the title it will be the biggest achievement of his profession
There is no organic inclination right here to question the assorted virtues of managers as fine, in their various ways, as Harry Redknapp, Arsène Wenger and Carlo Ancelotti. Why would there be? Their strengths are self-evident and might however prevail in 1 way or an additional before the finish of this time. Nonetheless, duty calls.

Muntari a doubt for Wembley clash
Ghana’s Sulley Muntari may miss Sunday’s Nations Cup tie in Congo and the pleasant in England with a calf problem.

Paul Newman: Coventry’s decline makes glory days seem so distant
How quickly occasions can change. Look back at the League tables at the flip of the century – just eleven a long time back – and it would seem like one more era. Bradford Town had been taking part in in the Premier League, Blackpool and Hull were amid people in what is now League Two and Wigan and Stoke have been one division previously mentioned them. Wimbledon – bear in mind them? – had just been relegated from the Premier League right after an 8 …