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Chelsea's belated revenge leaves Manchester United nursing grievances | Daniel Taylor

Source: The Guardian

Nov 08, 2009

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Sir Alex Ferguson's side can take dignity from their defeat at Chelsea, but they'll also do well to shed a real sense of injustice

It is a curious war-dance: a little hop and a skip, then a flurry of frantic hand movements, as if he is somehow trying to swat away an invisible swarm of bees. You can see it pretty much every time a split decision goes against Manchester United and Sir Alex Ferguson is near enough to the fourth official to make his point and there were times again here when it felt as though little black puffs of toxic smoke would start coming out of his ears.

United can take dignity from defeat. They played with a sense of control and measure that made them the better team before John Terry belatedly got a little bit of revenge for what happened in Moscow 18 months ago (and the refusal of United's gloating supporters to allow him to forget it). But there was a sense of injustice, too, and not just because the visiting players felt that Didier Drogba's close proximity to Edwin van der Sar meant he was interfering with play when Terry headed in the

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