Sir Alex Ferguson Reveals His One Regret From Man Utd's 2008 Champions League Triumph

Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, has claimed his one regret from the 2008 Champions League final was that midfielder Park Ji-sung was omitted from the squad.

United became the kings of Europe for the third time in 2008, following a penalty shout-out victory over Chelsea, in a rain drenched night in Moscow.

And as Ferguson prepares to take charge of most of his 2008 squad again for Michael Carrick's testimonial in a few weeks, he spoke to ​MUTV about that team.

"It was a really great bunch of players with a great attitude about them and a good, strong squad," he said.

"My problem in the 2008 final, maybe I even regret it to this day, was I left Ji-sung Park out completely in the final.

Park played four times en route to the final - including the semi-final against Barcelona - yet was not selected for the most important game in European club football.

"He’d played such a great role and that’s the problem when you get to these finals," Ferguson said.

"At Wembley (against Barcelona two years later), I did it to Dimitar Berbatov and he took it badly. He didn’t deserve it.

"No player deserves to be left out of the final. That’s why we try hard at these European seminars with the coaches to try to get 11 subs in the final," he added.

Park did get his chance to play in a Champions League final in 2009 and 2011, yet was on the losing side on both occasions against Barcelona.

The former South Korean international represented United over 200 times, and won nine major honours in a seven year spell at Old Trafford.