Sir Alex Ferguson reveals his biggest regret from 27 years at Man Utd | OneFootball

Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted that leaving Park Ji-Sung out of the 2008 Champions League final was his biggest regret from 27 years at Old Trafford.

The Scottish tactician won it all at Manchester United and became the most successful British coach in history with 13 Premier League titles to his name and two European Cups.

But it was in the last of those Champions League triumphs that Sir Alex faced a selection dilemma, and it’s a decision he still thinks about to this day.

“To win the European Cup is fantastic,’ Ferguson told MUTV.

“It was a really great bunch of players with a great attitude about them and a good, strong squad.

“My problem in the 2008 final, maybe I even regret it to this day, was I left Park Ji-Sung out completely in the final.

“He’d played such a great role and that’s the problem when you get to these finals. No player deserves to be left out of the final.”

Nani, Anderson and Ryan Giggs came off the bench as United beat Chelsea in Moscow with Park dropped from the squad entirely.

Uefa have since changed the rules which now allows each team that reaches a Champions League final to name 11 subs.