Of Cantonas Keanes and Rooneys

These were and are some of the greatest and most influential players who have donned the famous red shirts...

All of them are players with superb skills...

All of them are players with great guts and determination...

And all of them are players who are also very explosive and volatile at some point or other on the pitch...

Eric Cantona... who could forget his double-feet kungfu retaliation at a fan sitting beside the pitch?

Roy Keane... who could forget the most influential skipper in all of Man U's history who gets angry at even his own team-mates when the team don't play well?

Wayne Rooney... who could forget his ungracious antics during the World Cup 2006 in Germany?

Such explosive and tempermental players? A nightmare for any manager to manage... And only Alex Ferguson has the ability to re-channel their power, angst, energy and explosive passion into super productive performances on the soccer pitch...

Ferguson sees the greatness in all of them... He stood by them even when they flounder and disappoint their team-mates time and again by getting themselves into trouble... He believed in them and push them to realise their greatness...

And I have some Cantonas, Keanes and Rooneys in Simpleville too...

Explosive and angst-ridden characters... they don't conform to rules and regulations... they jump "double-footed" at anyone who antagonises them... they think that they are above everything else...

But there's also greatness in each and everyone of them...

My body is still aching from my badminton session yesterday... but such aches will go away... at least I know that my muscles had a good work-out and they'll only become stronger after they recover...

But there're some aches that's more difficult to recover from... Aches from knowing that these Cantonas, Keanes and Rooneys have gotten themselves into some kind of trouble again... These are aches in the heart...

How I wish I could be like Alex Ferguson... Motivating, developing and grooming his charges to become great soccer players... I've tried... And I'll still try... Cos' I see greatness too... In all these Cantonas, Keanes and Rooneys...