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IT'S ALL OGRE NOW AS FERGIE LETS HIS MASK SLIP
EVEN die-hard loathers of Man United, whose dartboards have been obscured for decades by pictures of their players, were starting to warm to them.
Admittedly, it was mainly down to an even bigger hatred of Chelsea and their swaggering assumption that they could construct a dynasty overnight with dodgy roubles. But no matter. People who previously found it impossible to like United were willing them on.
Their fearless, attacking football reminded us of a time when you could win the League without smothering the life out of every game. And unlike recent United sides, these players didn't swarm around referees unleashing phlegmwrapped abuse.
It meant that, for once, they were heading into the season's final straight with more good wishes than Kylie on a cancer ward. Then the ogre exploded, and we remembered what it was we most hated about Alex Ferguson's sides. Him.
These were Fergie's words to Sky reporter Geoff Shreeves on Monday night, after the Laird decided his questioning of Ronaldo was too probing: "F*****g bastard... F**k off to you, you ****. F**k off... You f*****g be professional ... F***ing hell with your answers."
Clearly this most noble Knight of the Realm doesn't think it is right to question penalty decisions. Despite two days earlier when referee Alan Wiley gave Bolton a penalty at Old Trafford, he gave his trademark hairdryer treatment to a linesman and fourth official, complete with full range of expletives.
It was ugly, undignified, unnecessary (they were 4-0 up at the time) and showed Fergie as the nasty vindictive, tyrant that we'd forgotten he was. The attack on Shreeves confirming that this elder statesman image he'd been perfecting to win a PR battle with Chelsea, was a facade. That he is still the worst kind of thuggish bully.
A man who hasn't spoken to the BBC for three years because they had the audacity to look into his agent son's transfer dealings. A dictator who doesn't want anyone seeking the truth, because he believes the truth is his to control.
Ferguson didn't want a Sky reporter asking questions about the game's major talking point, even though Sky's billions help pay his multi-million pound wages.
He wants an old boys' club of hand-picked hack stooges who pander to his every version of the truth. And right now his version of the truth is the media is suddenly trying to undermine his latest title bid by conspiring to unsettle Ronaldo.
Well when do you think Fergie said this? "He would have needed the strength of Atlas not to go down. I don't think he dived." It was September 2003, at Charlton, after Ronaldo won yet another dodgy spot-kick at the start of his United career.
Four seasons later, the player is still at the centre of disputed penalties, and therefore reporters have the right to ask him why, and let him put his side.
But question a penalty in earshot of the Laird and you'll be on the end of a tirade of foul abuse, even though days earlier he questioned a penalty himself. With foul-mouthed abuse.
Imagine that other pensioner knight, Sir Bobby Robson acting like that? Imagine Jose Mourinho. The same Mourinho who Fergie said three weeks ago, needed to button his lip and act with greater dignity.
Dignity? At his worst Fergie makes Mourinho look more dignified than Gandhi. And his worst is finally coming back out. Which is bad news for those United fans who were enjoying starting to be loved again. But good news for Chelsea's, who may now indeed witness a seemingly impossible double over the next few months:
Neutrals warming to the Special One. And even his team
Justified criticism or OTT
EVEN die-hard loathers of Man United, whose dartboards have been obscured for decades by pictures of their players, were starting to warm to them.
Admittedly, it was mainly down to an even bigger hatred of Chelsea and their swaggering assumption that they could construct a dynasty overnight with dodgy roubles. But no matter. People who previously found it impossible to like United were willing them on.
Their fearless, attacking football reminded us of a time when you could win the League without smothering the life out of every game. And unlike recent United sides, these players didn't swarm around referees unleashing phlegmwrapped abuse.
It meant that, for once, they were heading into the season's final straight with more good wishes than Kylie on a cancer ward. Then the ogre exploded, and we remembered what it was we most hated about Alex Ferguson's sides. Him.
These were Fergie's words to Sky reporter Geoff Shreeves on Monday night, after the Laird decided his questioning of Ronaldo was too probing: "F*****g bastard... F**k off to you, you ****. F**k off... You f*****g be professional ... F***ing hell with your answers."
Clearly this most noble Knight of the Realm doesn't think it is right to question penalty decisions. Despite two days earlier when referee Alan Wiley gave Bolton a penalty at Old Trafford, he gave his trademark hairdryer treatment to a linesman and fourth official, complete with full range of expletives.
It was ugly, undignified, unnecessary (they were 4-0 up at the time) and showed Fergie as the nasty vindictive, tyrant that we'd forgotten he was. The attack on Shreeves confirming that this elder statesman image he'd been perfecting to win a PR battle with Chelsea, was a facade. That he is still the worst kind of thuggish bully.
A man who hasn't spoken to the BBC for three years because they had the audacity to look into his agent son's transfer dealings. A dictator who doesn't want anyone seeking the truth, because he believes the truth is his to control.
Ferguson didn't want a Sky reporter asking questions about the game's major talking point, even though Sky's billions help pay his multi-million pound wages.
He wants an old boys' club of hand-picked hack stooges who pander to his every version of the truth. And right now his version of the truth is the media is suddenly trying to undermine his latest title bid by conspiring to unsettle Ronaldo.
Well when do you think Fergie said this? "He would have needed the strength of Atlas not to go down. I don't think he dived." It was September 2003, at Charlton, after Ronaldo won yet another dodgy spot-kick at the start of his United career.
Four seasons later, the player is still at the centre of disputed penalties, and therefore reporters have the right to ask him why, and let him put his side.
But question a penalty in earshot of the Laird and you'll be on the end of a tirade of foul abuse, even though days earlier he questioned a penalty himself. With foul-mouthed abuse.
Imagine that other pensioner knight, Sir Bobby Robson acting like that? Imagine Jose Mourinho. The same Mourinho who Fergie said three weeks ago, needed to button his lip and act with greater dignity.
Dignity? At his worst Fergie makes Mourinho look more dignified than Gandhi. And his worst is finally coming back out. Which is bad news for those United fans who were enjoying starting to be loved again. But good news for Chelsea's, who may now indeed witness a seemingly impossible double over the next few months:
Neutrals warming to the Special One. And even his team
Justified criticism or OTT
Last edited by on Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:51 pm; edited 1 time in total
his tricky questions with a 'step-over' answer and used a word that has NEVER been used by ANY L'pool player in their history...'polemic'. 
to SAF...at least he had the balls to stand up to a piece of VERY poor journalistic behaviour!
