It was almost inevitable as soon as the words came out of Rafa Bentiez's mouth that they may come back to haunt us.
And so it transpired this weekend as we inexplicably dropped more points against a probably doomed Stoke City yesterday evening and United narrowed the gap by destroying Chelsea this afternoon.
Benitez today stood by his comments made in the above video. Which, by the way, I found very entertaining and very funny as someone finally told Fergie where to stick it and there was a certain sense of pride to be taken from a detailed and well thought out put down.
Yet I also knew that the media would make a massive deal out of it and now even more so given the way the weekend's panned out.
To drop four points to Stoke home and away and not score a single goal is not the form of title contenders. The form of title contenders is United's demolition of our hitherto closest challengers Chelsea at Old Trafford.
Fergie's complaints about fixture congestion which Rafa so eloquently addressed in Friday's press conference are, as the Spaniard pointed out, not really valid given the fantastic run in they now have. They face ourselves, Arsenal and Aston Villa at Old Trafford with the destination of this year's title very much in their hands.
Equally a win at Old Trafford coupled with identical results in the remaining 17 games puts the title in our hands but it's a bit too early to be talking like this.
The perceived wisdom is that points will be dropped by all sides chasing the league between now and May but there won't be many, certainly less than ten I would imagine.
It makes slip ups like yesterday's all the more damaging. Furthermore the comments of Benitez heaps further pressure on him and the team to maintain the form that has seen us lead the pack since early December.
Needless to say the derby on Monday week takes on even more importance now.
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