Bruno Fernandes wants to bring back Fergie Time at Man Utd and calls on team-mates to show some ‘belief’
Bruno Fernandes wants to bring back Fergie Time at Man Utd and calls on team-mates to show some ‘belief’
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Sponsored by. BRUNO FERNANDES wants to lead Manchester United into a new era of last-gasp Fergie Time heroics. And if he does, it will answer the one question which had him stumped after his midweek Europa League late supershow: Whether Red Devils boss Ruben Amorim wears a watch.
![[Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United walking at an airport.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/25-1-25-manchester-united-966583147.jpg?strip=all&w=556)
In two triumphant decades under Sir Alex Ferguson, even those with only a passing interest in football had no doubt. Barely a week went by without football’s greatest gaffer very publicly checking his wrist to make a point about stoppage time — and so often it ended with a late goal for United.
![[Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United celebrating a goal.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/bruno-fernandes-manchester-united-celebrates-966131855.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
There has been precious little of it in the decade since Ferguson’s final farewell — but now playmaker Fernandes has made it his mission to bring them back under the latest man to fill Fergie’s boots. There have already been murmurings of it in just 16 games with the Portuguese manager in charge — five late-show strikes, in fact.
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And after his 92nd-minute goal to beat Scottish giants Rangers made him the latest name on the list — in every respect — Fernandes knew the subject of United’s stoppage-time history was coming. As a keen student of the club’s past, yes, of course he was well aware of Fergie Time.
![[Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-25-league-phase-md1-947617560_7b49e8.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
But no, there hadn’t been enough of it under Amorim for him to know if his boss even had a watch, never mind had cause to check it in front of any watching official. Yet as he vowed to turn grand finales from exception to the norm once more, he will not be in the dark for much longer.
![[Bruno Fernandes's 2024-25 Manchester United stats: games, chances created, passes, goals, assists, tackles, and fouls.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/the-sun-22-23-transfer-auto-ca885e72-df5e-48dd-bb13-159279791e38.png?strip=all&w=960)
