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Nani injury Celtic newsThe two angriest managers in football meet at Old Trafford tonight when Manchester United face Arsenal in the FA Cup.

Fresh from a 3-0 going over from Liverpool last Sunday Alex Ferguson will try to reduce Arsenal’s trophy targets down to one following their spectacular Champions League chasing from Barcelona.

Referee Chris Foy will be charged with keeping the peace in a fixture that has been as explosive as any Celtic-Rangers match in recent times.

After a week of silence and falling out with MUTV Ferguson found his voice again yesterday with a scathing attack on Jamie Carragher’s foul on Nani at Anfield last Sunday.

“You have to move on,” he claimed before going into great detail about the foul that earned the Liverpool defender a yellow card. “Nothing can be done about it now, but it was a disgraceful tackle.

“The wound on Nani’s shin was too wide to stitch at the time, so we sent him to hospital to see what they could do.

“Our own doctor and the surgeon there managed to get it stitched up, which was fantastic and was the biggest and best news we could have hoped for.

“It’s difficult to say whether he will be fit for the Bolton game next weekend but he’s got a chance, at least.

“Without the stitches, who knows when he would have been back, because then the alternative would have been to have waited for the injury to heal by itself.

“Then you are worrying about infection setting in. That and swelling would be the two areas of real concern. It was great news that they were able to stitch it up, but we are still worried about infection.

“That is the key to it and is why we are having to monitor him every single day. He has to be examined every day to make sure there is no moisture in the wound. If it dries up quickly, we have a better chance of getting him back.”

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Wenger’s anger is shared between UEFA and referee Massimo Busacca following Robin van Persie’s sending off and has brought a calm down plea from elderly Gunners chairman Peter Hill Wood.

“A bit more humility would do UEFA some good,” the Arsenal boss said. “To apologise for what happened would be much better than to charge people who have done nothing wrong.

“UEFA have to have a little bit lower profile after what happened on Tuesday night. That would be much better and more sensible. The first game was a fantastic advert for football and the second game has been destroyed. The only thing people will remember is that the sending off killed the game.

“Arsenal are being punished. We are out of the Champions League, have lost one of our big ambitions, have been punished with a lot of damages and, on top of that, have to say sorry to UEFA.

“We have done nothing wrong. They organised the competition and named the referees. This decision frustrated everybody who loves football.

“When you have a football game of that stature, you cannot come out with decisions like that and show a lot of arrogance on top of that. We all understand we can make wrong decisions but after that it becomes dictatorship. It’s not common sense any more.”

Arsenal chairman Hill-Wood said: “I don’t believe in criticising referees myself because I don’t think you achieve much.

“But managers take a different view – not only our own, but also others, including one we all know about right now. I think Arsene is very upset.”

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