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Alex Ferguson doesn’t give a toss about Gary Megson

Tuesday October 20th, 2009

Alex Ferguson goes in to hiding after hearing Gary Megson thinks they're mates now. Pic from tpower1978

The Bolton News falls for the United boss’ mind games

I Twittered last night about the appalling levels of hypocrisy on Five Live Sport, who went seamlessly from talking about how out of order football fans are for abusing players to then justifying Alex Ferguson’s abuse of referee Alan Wiley.

But Five Live aren’t the only ones who’ve swallowed Fergie’s spin.

This report in The Bolton News carried quotes from the Manchester United manager, lifted from his programme notes for Saturday’s game against the Wanderers, in which he said of Bolton fans:

You see the unreasonableness and impatience of fans expressed in many different ways and it’s all quite different from, say, 30 years, ago.

Would that be the same unreasonableness and impatience that prompts a manager to call in to question the professionalism of a referee?

Ferguson doesn’t give a toss about Megson or the Wanderers. When I worked on the Chelsea matchday programme, Jose Mourinho would often tailor his matchday notes to highlight weaknesses in the opposition – and thus wind them up when they got to the ground and read it.

Far from “launching an impassioned plea on behalf of Gary Megson”, as The Bolton News put it, Ferguson was merely stoking the fires of discontent to give his side an advantage – and The Bolton News fell for it.

More importantly, why is it OK for managers to publicly criticise referees and for players to blatantly swear at them on the pitch, but as soon as a fan dares criticise the people whose wages they pay, they are accused of bringing the game in to disrepute?

If anyone can explain this, there’s a comment box below…

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