MANCHESTER UNITED fable Rio Ferdinand has recalled precisely what Sir Alex Ferguson said aft rivals Manchester City won the Premier League rubric backmost successful 2012.
City snatched the Prem trophy consecutive from the hands of Ferguson and Co connected a melodramatic last time 12 years ago.
United provisionally held the apical spot pursuing a 1-0 triumph implicit Sunderland - portion Roberto Mancini's broadside were level astatine 2-2 with Queens Park Rangers.
However, Sergio Aguero scored a last-gasp victor for City to clinch the league title.
Man Utd players went from delight to despair wrong a substance of moments astatine the Stadium of Light.
Recalling the juncture with Ferdinand connected his Rio Presents YouTube channel, ex-defender Phil Jones explained: "We're distant astatine Sunderland, we triumph the crippled 1-0. Our game's finished and I walked disconnected the pitch, and Berber's [Dimitar Berbatov] gone to me, 'it's done, it's done,' truthful I deliberation we've done it.
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"So I'm thinking, we've done it, we've won the league.
"And anyway, arsenic it transpires the game's not finished. Then, obviously, I can't adjacent sanction him, goes and scores and that was it.
"The feeling... I've ne'er been successful a dressing country similar that before. Never."
He was past asked astir Ferguson's reaction, to which Ferdinand chimed successful to reply: "He said, 'you experienced players, you've tally this course, you've been here.
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"'But you young ones,' and helium named you, Chris Smalling, Welbs [Danny Welbeck], Clevs [Tom Cleverley] etc.
"He went, 'you perceive present and you retrieve the faces retired there,' due to the fact that the Sunderland fans were laughing astatine america and they were cheering erstwhile the extremity went in.
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"So helium said, 'you retrieve their faces, you retrieve what it's similar and you retrieve this feeling here, now, the time you travel backmost into pre-season adjacent season. You don't fto that hap again.'
"And we won the league the adjacent season."
Man Utd went connected to triumph the Premier League successful 2013 to extremity Ferguson's 27-year spell arsenic manager connected a high.