at Old Trafford, and picked it as one of the five games he would play again. While speaking to the Premier League website in 2012, Giggs chose the game as the greatest in the history of the league. Upon Giggs' retirement, outlets such as The Guardian and ESPN ranked it among the 10 greatest performances of his career. Speaking to the Premier League website after his retirement, City goalkeeper Given cited the game as his all-time favourite, saying it had "everything". Despite being on the winning side, his opposite number Ben Foster recognised his poor performance as one of the main reasons he was not a success at United, quoting Ferguson as saying to him, "You pull this shit ever again and that's you fucking done"; Foster ultimately became United's third-choice goalkeeper behind Edwin van der Sar and Tomasz Kuszczak, before being sold to Birmingham City at the end of the season. When appearing as a guest on Sky Sports programme Monday Night Football in 2018, United midfielder Darren Fletcher also selected the game as his favourite. Speaking to City's website 10 years later, Craig Bellamy, whose first goal was voted as the BBC Goal of the Month, said the game was the moment the tide turned between the two Manchester clubs, sensing at the time that City were becoming a stronger contender for trophies – in the following 10 years, City won 12 derbies compared to United's 10, and won 13 trophies, five more than United. Shaun Wright-Phillips echoed Bellamy's opinion during a 2020 interview with website The Athletic, suggesting that the manner of the defeat was not painful as they knew the club would reach new heights. In contrast, 19-year-old City substitute David Ball later said it was the closest he ever came to making an appearance for the club, recalling that Tevez had suffered a knock and Hughes asked him to warm up, but ultimately Tevez stayed on and Ball left the club in 2011 without making a single appearance. Though the relationship between Ferguson and Hughes was sour at the time, Ferguson was one of the first people to ring Hughes and offer his support when City sacked him in December 2009. Ferguson described the decision to sack Hughes as "unacceptable", but was confident his career would recover. Ferguson's post-match quote, in which he described City as United's "noisy neighbours", is widely regarded as one of