“Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.”

Goal.com (20 October 2010) http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2914/champions-league/2010/10/20/2175638/sir-alex-ferguson-compares-rooney-situation-to-a-cow-in-a.

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