Sir Alex Ferguson today played down talk of a rift between the Manchester United goalkeepers Tomasz Kuszczak and Edwin van der Sar, dismissing the former’s comments as ‘Polish humour’. Since the comments were made on MUTV, so I was pretty surprised to actually hear about it. Had their been something that evident, United and most importantly Sir Alex would have made sure it was kept off MUTV atleast.
Kuszczak seemed to attack Van Der Sar for not offering him enough support during his time at Old Trafford, claiming he had asked Van der Sar for advice but none had been forthcoming.
“To be honest, I must say this, and Edwin doesn’t like this too much, for sure, but he doesn’t help me too much,” he said. “I have told him a few times already to give me some more advice because he’s got more experience and got many more games under his belt.
“I say to him: ‘You have to give me something more because I like to know what I do wrong’. I like to watch other people because doing that I can take some good from the advice I get. But I don’t know, maybe Edwin doesn’t like me. You’ll have to ask him.”
But Ferguson confirmed anyone trying to convince themselves of a row in the Red Devils camp were misplaced.
“It is just not true,” he said. “Tomasz was cracking a joke. He was laughing when he said it. There is no problem between him and Edwin – maybe it is just that Polish humour doesn’t translate to British humour.”
