Fergie Retires: Manchester United players past and present react on Twitter

It’s a rarity to be posting twice on one day but thought it was worthy to round-up what Manchester United players that have played under Ferguson managed to squeeze into 140 characters what they made of the United manager stepping down and the impact the Scot had on their careers. There’s some great pictures in there as well.

Ferguson Retires: The day I met Fergie

Twitter timeline, Facebook news feed, radio phone-ins, Sky Sports yellow ticker, front and back page of the Standard. For Manchester United supporters Wednesday May 8^th 2013 will be remembered as the day one of the greatest football managers to have graced the game decided that it was time to call it a day.

Fabio and Rafael: Brazilian twins no longer separated just by a wedding ring

It was apparently the one distinguishing item that Ferguson could tell the two apart, but now there is so much more that divides the swashbuckling fullbacks plucked from Fluminese after catching the eye of the United scouts almost ten years ago.