Sir Alex Ferguson is known to play mind games on rival managers. espnstar.com looks at the victims he claimed.

The Manchester United boss undoubtedly is the master of mind games.

Ferguson is the old master of such tactics and appears to have claimed a new victim in Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez. The Spaniard launched an astonishing tirade at Ferguson - Benitez justifying his verbal onslaught because the Scot had been “talking too much about Liverpool . . . he has to stop”.

But with Liverpool's drab 0-0 draw with Stoke on Saturday, Benitez's all-out spat with Ferguson may have caused him valuable points. And this is not the first time the wily Ferguson has clashed with rival managers...

July 2008:

When Luiz Felipe Scolari was appointed as Chelsea manager, Ferguson asked whether the squad was too old to win the league. "I don't know how far that team has got to go. Maybe they've plateaued," he replied. Believe it or not, Big Phil's Blues outfit have not dominated the Premier League following a positive start, and if they lose at Old Trafford on Sunday, United will be a point behind them with two games to play.

April 2003:

Fergie laughed off Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's proclamations that the Gunners can go through the season unbeaten. On the Frenchman's comments, the old master of mind battles said cryptically: "It might come back to haunt them." Well, it sure did. Arsenal's chase for the title collapsed and United clinch the trophy. But Wenger managed to achieve his bold claim the following season.

May 1996:

Newcastle were riding high in the Premier League and they looked unstoppable...until Ferguson started making a series of comments that other teams would be 'up' for matches against their title rivals. Well, Ferguson claimed his most famous, and of course, tearful victim, in then-Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan. He would go on to deliver his infamous 'I'd love it' rant live on television. Their challenge faded and United clinched the league.