Unnerved Fergie hails United’s courage

Despite being the most experienced manager in European football, Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted that the atmosphere in the San Siro stadium on Tuesday night unnerved him. The Red Devils eventually edged AC Milan 3-2 in the last 16 first-leg Champions League tie but not before falling behind to an early Rosseneri strike. "The one thing that's so amazing is that for the first 15 minutes I was feeling in shock, really in shock, because the atmosphere was unbelievable," admitted Fergie on Thursday."That, coupled with the noise when they scored, it certainly unnerved me, and it unnerved my players. No matter how much experience you've got, you get into that cauldron of noise, and the response it had from the Milan players, and you're in there. So to get through that really did take a lot of courage.” The return leg is on 9 March at Old Trafford.