Fergie keeps faith with Man Utd's old timers

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

NEWCASTLE, England (AFP) — Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes have been handed a vote of confidence by Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson as the club's bright young talents begin to heap pressure on the two Old Trafford legends.

Ferguson, whose United team travel to Newcastle on Saturday, surprisingly substituted Giggs and Scholes midway through the second-half of Wednesday's Champions League draw against Lyon in France.

Giggs, 34, and Scholes, 33, have been key figures at United for over a decade, but the emergence of Portuguese winger Nani and Brazilian midfielder Anderson, signed from Sporting Lisbon and Porto respectively last May, has placed question marks over their status as first-team regulars for the first time in their long careers.

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