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65 shares 57 View comments There is a phrase I’ve never quite been able to understand. It’s the one that claims ‘I hate to say I told you so, but...’ Because we all love to say I told you so while we nod sagely and tap the side of our nose. Being in the know is something to be proud of. When Sir Alex Ferguson retired, there were those who believed they had the inside track, but it was an event that was predicted in this column. Displaying the kind of prophetic power that would warrant a Pulitzer prize in many circumstances, I announced ‘the end was nigh’, adding it was high time the Manchester United board ‘pressed a gold watch into his palm and gently ushered Ferguson in the general direction of the executive lounge’. Time for change: Sir Alex Ferguson has got it spot on once again when it comes to the ticking of his clock   DM.has('rcp',"twitter");       Loading tweets... Eleven years later, they did. I turned out to

Kindergarten brawl: kindergarten brawl broke out at an Ohio school on May 31. According to NBC News , 8 people were arrested by police after a huge fight took place on the sidewalk outside the school after the kindergarten graduation. According to the report, the brawl started with two teenagers and was started by a "spilled cup of punch." "There were no guns, but one individual did pull out a club or a stick and one person did grab a hammer. Officers were able to separate the combatants," said Cleveland Police Commander Wayne Drummond. No one has been charged yet but that could change. The kindergarten brawl left one teenager and seven adults in police custody. No one was seriously injured despite the weapons brought out during the argument. Exactly what happened and why so many people felt the need to get involved is unknown. Obviously this was meant to be a special day for the graduating class but some people just couldn't keep it together. "It's ju

Planes collide : Two Planes collided in midair and crashed in phoenix city of Arizona resulted in four fatalities. Two single-engine planes collided in midair and crashed into barren desert terrain just north of Phoenix Friday morning, killing four unidentified people traveling in the small aircraft, according to fire officials. Fire officials who responded to the scene of the crash discovered two bodies onboard each of the planes -- one of which had caught fire and was consumed by flames while the other was only partially damaged, according to Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Capt. Larry Nunez. All four people were pronounced dead at the scene by responding paramedics, Nunez said. A pilot reportedly spotted the two small planes plow into each other just after 10 a.m. local time Friday morning, roughly 15 miles northwest of Deer Valley Airport in Phoenix, according to preliminary information from Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor. Authorities do not yet know what c

Joran van der Sloot: Convicted Dutch murderer Joran van der Sloot is in love and planning to marry a Peruvian woman in the prison where he's serving a 28-year sentence, his lawyer said Friday. The couple is awaiting permission from penal authorities for a wedding within two weeks in Piedras Gordas prison, lawyer Maximo Altez told The Associated Press. "He is in love, that is what motivates all men (to marry), he truthfully is in love," Altez said Friday about his client, who was convicted of the brutal 2010 murder of a young Lima woman he met in a casino. Altez's comment followed speculation in Peruvian media that Van der Sloot wants to marry 23-year-old Leydi Figueroa Uceda to avoid possible extradition to the United States. The lawyer denied that was the case. The 24-year-old Dutchman remains the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance in his native Aruba of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway. Holloway was 18 years old when she vanished during a high school graduat

0 shares 101 View comments THE ADRIAN DURHAM COLUMN Read more explosive opinion from Adrian Durham every Tuesday on MailOnline... The news that Jamie Carragher has decided to retire at the end of the season gave me mixed feelings. Back in July 2007 the same player quit international football, and that’s something that always fires me up because I’m a passionate England fan. So I started the Drive show on talkSPORT by saying Carragher had bottled it. I was serious – the England manager had set Carragher a challenge to get back in the England team, and the player had turned down that challenge. I saw a player bottling a very big challenge. The phone lines went crazy with people angry I was using the word 'bottler' to describe a whole-hearted, passionate and very good player. Unknown to me, Carragher himself had tuned in, and was, according to his autobiography, 'livid'.  Scroll down to listen to Carra's rant live on the air... Sparks flew: Adri

0 shares 128 View comments A play-off system at the top of the Premier League is inevitable. The question is when. This season could force the issue.  It’s not even mid-February and Manchester United are virtually champions already. Another spectacular finish to the season would be fantastic but City’s decline and United’s improvement, with the rest not even trying to win the title, make that highly unlikely. Scroll down for Liverpool video.... Title gone begging: Sergio Aguero reacts to another missed Man City opportunity during Saturday's 3-1 defeat at Southampton Fireworks party: The Championship play-off final is a great occasion and could be replicated in the Premier League BALE IS A TARGET AND IT'S TOTTENHAM'S FAULT Are Tottenham turning Gareth Bale into a target? Take Bale out of Spurs this season and they’d be mid-table. I don’t think the Premier League has seen a better example of a one-man team. He has transformed games and won loads

0 shares 110 View comments I'm not looking forward to Jose Mourinho's return to the Premier League. Sir Alex Ferguson had completely outcoached Mourinho last week at the Bernabeu and Jose had run out of ideas. His main tactic at Madrid has been to rely on some Ronaldo magic. That always works against inferior opposition, sometimes works against similar quality sides but rarely works against the best. For Jose to beat the best he needs to get Pepe kicking people, or he can set to work himself, poking opposition coaches in the eye on the touchline. Centre of attention: Jose Mourinho ended his team talk against Manchester United early during the interval before returning to the dugout What now Jose? Mourinho must now mastermind a Real Madrid victory at Old Trafford to progress in the Champions League CATCH UP ON ADRIAN DURHAM'S PREVIOUS SPORTSMAIL COLUMNS...CLICK HERE FOR THE ARCHIVE OF ADRIAN'S PREVIOUS COLUMNSFollow Adrian on Twitter @talkSPO

0 shares 270 View comments The Scottish Premier League is ridiculous. Celtic are 21 points clear and they could win the title in a fortnight. The second best team in Scotland are currently 22 points clear in the Third Division.  Last summer the bloodthirsty desire to punish Rangers resulted in the death of Scottish football as sustainable worthy entertainment. The first of five: Joe Ledley celebrates after opening the scoring for Celtic in their 5-0 procession over hapless Dundee IT'S HARDLY THE SECOND COMING OF RINUS MICHELS, BUT WELL DONE SPURS Third is exactly where Spurs should be right now. Chelsea’s attempt to break the world record for the amount of times a club can self-destruct in one season is well on course to succeed. Meantime Arsenal continue to sell their best players and buy rubbish to replace them – mismanagement of the highest order by a man who apparently cannot be sacked. Third in the Premier League is the bare minimum Spurs f

0 shares 127 View comments Anyone else going to feel disappointed if Jose Mourinho is successful at Old Trafford tonight? He has plenty of trophies on his c.v. but he also has plenty of negatives. He once questioned a referee who then got death threats and decided to retire. So much for respect. He poked his finger into an opposition coach’s eye on the touchline as part of a detailed plan to destabilise Barcelona at the height of their greatness. His sneering and bold accusations of conspiracies and cheating against Real Madrid led to one of the greatest and most innovative coaches football has ever seen – Pep Guardiola – growing too tired to do the job any more. Not everyone's favourite: There is plenty to dislike about Jose Mourinho, despite his phenomenal success

0 shares 126 View comments Who is the only English manager to win a major trophy in the last nine years? Who is the only English manager to guide a club from the bottom of the table into the top four of the Premier League? Who is the only English manager to take an English club into the quarter-finals of the Champions League? Underrated: Harry Redknapp has proved himself time and time again but is not given the credit he deserves On the up: QPR have give themselves a chance of escaping relegation from the Premier League     More from Adrian Durham...   ADRIAN DURHAM COLUMN: Why I still admire Pulis despite his 'fightball' tactics... Why the yobs will keep me away from Wembley for Ireland visit... And why German football's nicht all it's cracked up to be (it's almost as one-sided as Scotland!)