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[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130511.html][img=images/2013/05/pic130511.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Football and religion. If there&#039;s two subjects that everybody likes to hear mixed together it&#039;s surely football and religion. They share so much: tribalism, fierce hostility to the other and a guaranteed way of vacuuming up funds from the faithful.

Today, we have the [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22409634]FA Cup Final[/url], but rather more importantly, Sir Alex Ferguson is retiring. It seems almost unbelievable. Sir Alex, who has been Man Utd manager since the beginning of creation, is finally stepping down. 

He is passing on his magic powers to [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22484074]David Moyes[/url]. &quot;You are David and upon this rock I will build my team, and the gates of Manchester City will not prevail against it.&quot;

It seems apt to quote from the Old Tasty mint, &quot;The fool says there is no Sir Alex Ferguson.&quot;

It seems like the passing of an era, a term that has run it&#039;s course, a reign that has come to an end. It is also the dawning of a new age, the beginning of an epoch. Sir Alex himself has told us, &quot;Know that I am with you always, yea unto the end of time.&quot;

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