Farewell Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Farewell Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
You have made me happy this past decade with your goals, your commitment to United and of course your winner in Barcelona.
Your career is defined by that goal and it means you will never have to buy a drink in Manchester again.
Your dedication to United is beyond question and reports suggest you are poised to be the Sir Bobby of the Ferguson era, acting as a worldwide ambassador for the club. It will be a fitting reward for a most popular player.
The tributes which have poured in today are richly deserved. In the age of the mercenary footballer, the service you have shown is rare indeed.
Some unkind observers suggest you must have been lacking in ambition. You’ve not been thought of as a United first team regular for the best part of a decade and you turned down the chance of automatic selection with Spurs in 1998.
But then 1999 in the final minute of time was your vindication.
You clicked instantly when you arrived at Old Trafford and it was said that Cantona enjoyed playing alongside you more than Andy Cole. You scored important goals too. English football has not seen an impact player such as you since the days of Liverpool’s David Fairclough.
Injuries meant that you never got the run in the side which your goalscoring prowess should have demanded. Last season, you were in and out of the team but still you contributed 11 goals. Your gift for finding the net is rare and you only cost the club £1.5 million. What a steal! Where will Sir Alex find another gem like you?
In the end, a three year battle to overcome a serious knee injury defeated you in a way in which opposition teams could never do.
As a never-to-be-forgotten Red to the bone, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, AbsolutelyUNITED salutes you.
