Manchester United players glumly sat through the club's end of season awards dinner a day after neighbours City won the Premier League on Monday night.
Whilst Carlos Tevez held aloft a banner declaring "R.I.P. Fergie" at the Citizens' open top bus victory parade, Sir Alex Ferguson was defiantly holding court at Old Trafford.
But given some of the 70-year-old's declarations, the free bar may not have been a good idea.
"It's something the Premier League should look into," he told the club's in-house television station MUTV, referring to City's match with QPR the day before having more added time. This from the man who "invented" Fergie Time.
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"Those Sunderland fans who cheered for City ... we won't forget that," he stated later, recalling the Black Cats' - who have not won a trophy since 1973 - supporters celebrating Sergio Aguero's winner at Eastlands.
And then, backing up the belief his tactics in recent years have been found wanting: "I'm a dinosaur, I'm an absolute dinosaur but what I am, I'm a winner."
Right midfielder Antonio Valencia took a clean sweep at the ceremony. He won the Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year award (as voted for by fans), the players' player of the year gong and the goal of the season accolade for his strike away at Blackburn Rovers.
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