Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson says victory in next week's Champions League final would be the greatest achievement in his career. He told The Times: "Winning back-to-back Champions League titles would be the best achievement of my career, no question. It has to be.

"When I won my first Champions League against Bayern Munich [in 1999] I said: 'Good, that's out of the road' because that was always a criticism of me. Then we went through a dry zone and we had to wait another nine years to do it. Now we're in a situation where we're in another final already, which is phenomenal."