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A ROAD adjacent to Manchester United’s Old Trafford is to be renamed Sir Alex Ferguson Way in honour of the club’s long-serving manager who retired in May after nearly 27 years in charge.Ferguson, who is now a director at the Premier League club, was also be given the Honourary Freedom of the Borough of Trafford at a formal ceremony yesterday. The 71-year-old Ferguson said “to have a part of Trafford carrying my name is truly humbling.”
Another former United manager, the late Matt Busby, also has a street named after him close to the stadium. Meanwhile, the head of Real Madrid’s medical services says he expects Gareth Bale to be “120 percent” fit for the 26 October Clasico at Barcelona’s Camp Nou, as the winger can continue to play while his back problem receives treatment.
Bale’s fitness remains a major talking point in Madrid, with Marca claiming over the weekend that the former Tottenham player has a serious back problem which would require surgery – and that Blancos president Florentino Perez knew that but went ahead with his 100 million euro world record signing anyway. The Estadio Santiago Bernabeu club issued a strongly-worded statement in response, saying that Bale “does not have a slipped disc” but does have “a small chronic disc bulge”.
The club claimed this was something relatively common with footballers, and does not stop them playing. Carlos Diez, chief of Medical Services Sanitas-Real Madrid, told AS that the situation was not as serious as was being made out, and Bale could even play some minutes from the bench against Malaga in La Liga next Saturday and also feature when Juventus visit the Bernabeu in the Champions League the following Wednesday.-Soccernet.
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