Real Madrid legend Alfredo Di Stéfano has today hit back at remarks made by Alex Ferguson about the Franco influence on the club, saying what should they have done except win?
Alex Ferguson hasn't been helping his popularity in the Spanish capital of Madrid lately after first having a public feud with Gabriel Heinze and then remarking that Real Madrid are General Franco's club.The Manchester United manager has received criticism for those comments across Spain and today Madrid legend Alfredo Di Stéfano has had his say about the reports.
"Ferguson, what is he going to say? We went for everything in Europe and at that moment the Franco government ruled. And what were we meant to do? Throw the games away? We had to win, we had a good team and the immigrants were happy with us. It was one of the fundamental things that [Santiago] Bernabéu did," he mused.
The former player showed his sense of humour too by initially replying to a question about Franco by saying, 'in Coruña there was a Franco who played on the left wing and he was very good.'
Aside from the Ferguson issue Di Stefano also spoke about another topic hot in the press at the moment, referees. The ex-Blanco said that that they make 'mistakes like players and everyone else' but believes he has already made good suggestions for the job.
"I already said that the Asociación de Futbolistas Españoles (AFE) had to do a referee school and to get referees from there, because football is for football. It is my criteria so that each one gets what they want," opined Di Stefano.
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