LONDON, Reuter: When Alex Ferguson took over as Manchester United Manager with the club languishing three places from the bottom of the English first division he said. “My aim is the top. We can still win the League
That was on November 6, Following United’s unimpressive 1-0 victory over Queen’s Park Rangers their first under Ferguson. the former Aberdeen and Scotland manager saw his ambitious dream fall into focus.
His team are still 1-4 points behind leaders Arsenal and have improved only marginally to 17th position.
But few critics would dare to write off categorically the possibility of Ferguson inspiring them to an unlikely but dramatic triumph.
JOHANNESBURG, Reuter: Johan Kriek, the South African born American and last surviving seeded player, was blasted out of the South African Open Tennis Championship by reigning champion Matt Anger of the US. ‘Anger, who was not ranked among the eight seeds, knocked Out the volatile fourth seed to win a place in the final a Amos Mansdoref of Israel who earlier beat South African Eddie Edwards, Anger beat Kriek 7-6, 7-6, winning tiebreaks in both sets, while Mansdorf had an easy 6-0, 7-5 Victory over Edwards.
SCHLIEREN, Switzerland: Semifinal results in the 63,000 dollar Swiss Masters Squash Grand Prix Ross Norman (New Zealand) beat Chris Robertson (Australia) 9-6, 9-4-1 Jahangir
Khan (Pakistan) beat 3-Stuart
Davenport (Australia) 9-2. 9-7 .
Article extracted from this publication >> November 28, 1986
