When the dust has finally settled on the Derby which had everything, one fact will remain - Manchester City blew it.
To surrender a two-goal advantage on your own patch is careless at the best of times. To do so in a Derby match with so much pride at stake is simply criminal.
But that's exactly what the blues did in this classic, magical 119th meeting of the old rivals which will surely go down in the history books as the day Manchester City committed soccer suicide.
Alex Ferguson
"The score at half-time was a travesty and I simply told our players at the interval to keep playing their football and it would come right.
I said they simply had to take more care with their passing in the last third of the pitch.
Certainly it is worrying to be two goals down.
But the players still showed great confidence and Eric Cantona showed his intelligence when he went deeper yet still came forward to score two goals.
Then Roy Keane got the winner so late there was no time for City to come back.
Roy made a lot of runs though and had half a dozen attempts at goal.
Certainly it was a very good result for us, keeps the momentum going and gets rid of the cob webs after the European let-down.
Man of the Match
Eric Cantona. Did his talking with his feet to rescue United.
