Press coverage and how the mancs are twats

[Gnasher]

His last book was the same as I recall, everyone is either put in their place or morally out of order in his singularly fucked brain.

Reminds me of Partridge going on a radio show to publicise 'Bouncing Back', and the woman on there saying "I notice you end almost every anecdote with the phrase "needless to say, I had the last laugh"."

"Yeah, well, you could end some of your chapters with "needles to say... I took drugs".

That's Ferguson here. In light of the Snow interview and how his stature is already diminished, I can see this attracting the worst reaction of all from his point of view, derision.

This post presents me with an open goal, Steve Googan plays the Alex Ferguson character

 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5drObf8yWOc

 

Back of the net.

[fowler9]

enjoyed that Snow interview nice seeing the old cunt squirm his way through it, although at the end he says its quite mellow, all I've seen from it is bitter ramblings!

 

anyone else think he looks to have aged a lot since may?

[jamespp]

A fallen dictator being asked difficult questions that weren't asked when he was in power, if they were there was consequences

Anyone get the feeling he didnt have a clue about politics? Unelaborated answers about Labour and stuff

[Dr Nowt]

Snow actively wanted to take him to places he wasn't comfortable, perhaps some of that by virtue of what has often been blanket contempt towards media from a man who after all is said and done managed a football club, yet acquired a god complex doing so.

 

Bright chap though Ferguson is, mixing with the Rob Shephards and Martin Samuels of this world certainly doesn't prepare you for going in with someone at his end of the profession, and if Snow wanted to give the old bastard a little reminder of his place in the intelligence pecking order, good on him. 

 

Not everyone's going to be a pussycat, pretend to forget what a cunt you've been, and fail to pull you on ridiculous remarks like "I never held a grudge".

[Dr Nowt]

He clearly missed a trick by not asking Snow if he ever shaved his crackling.

 

Now wondering whether Rock Of Gibraltar used to go into a cubical with a magazine to produce his spunk, and if that's why Ferguson squabbled so shamelessly over it.

[Trumo]

Whiskeynose seems to think Rafa has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and yet chose to forget about this.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/mar/08/rafael-benitez-sir-alex-ferguson

 

 

 

It should also be noted that when Ferguson's young grandson, Charlie, was badly injured in a car crash and was treated at Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital, Benítez wrote to him to offer his assistance of any sort. It was May 2009, at the end of the season when their relationship had reached its nadir, and it suggested the ability to rise above the professional conflict.

[FrenchEyeGlass]

Watched a few of his recent interviews (the Jon Snow one was great) and it suddenly struck me how often he refers to United as 'they' and rarely, if ever, as 'we' or 'us'.

 

It says it all about the odious cunt. You never ever get the feeling that he feels it was an honour to be the Utd manager - instead, its as if the honour was all theirs. His ego is repugnant. I hope the stories start flooding out.

[FrenchEyeGlass]

Snow actively wanted to take him to places he wasn't comfortable, perhaps some of that by virtue of what has often been blanket contempt towards media from a man who after all is said and done managed a football club, yet acquired a god complex doing so.

 

Bright chap though Ferguson is, mixing with the Rob Shephards and Martin Samuels of this world certainly doesn't prepare you for going in with someone at his end of the profession, and if Snow wanted to give the old bastard a little reminder of his place in the intelligence pecking order, good on him. 

 

Not everyone's going to be a pussycat, pretend to forget what a cunt you've been, and fail to pull you on ridiculous remarks like "I never held a grudge".

 

Exactly. Its mind boggling how often he is portrayed to be some masterminded genius but then you have to take a step back and recognise its the shitforbrains morons who are purporting as much.

 

Im saddened that the Snow interview was so short. I wish they had gotten the wanker to agree to some documentary only to corner him and show him for the cunt he is.

[milky]

Shows what a fucking hypocrite the cunt is too, when in the Snow interview he admits that control was his main objective, yet he derides Rafa as being a 'control freak' in the book.

 

One thing I'd love to have seen Snow ask him, which would have definitely brought on the whiskey sweats even more than usual, is how he's have felt if some of his recently retired, ex-players had brought out something similar in a book.

[Dr Nowt]

Exactly. Its mind boggling how often he is portrayed to be some masterminded genius but then you have to take a step back and recognise its the shitforbrains morons who are purporting as much.

 

Im saddened that the Snow interview was so short. I wish they had gotten the wanker to agree to some documentary only to corner him and show him for the cunt he is.

 

The bit where Snow drew his head back and looked down his nose at him with what at least superficially appeared total cynicism was great.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

I watched that interview and have followed Ferguson's career for 30 years in which time I studied his behaviour, I think I can state unequivically and without doubt that the man is a cunt.

[Mathewbet1]

Ginsoak has come out and said in book that Gerrard 'is not a top top player' Contradicting several quotes he had made in the past. This book has got to be a wind up, he's fucking nuts.

[halewood pete]

I've  been having real trouble trying to get to the end of Ferguson's book,everytime I think I am nearly there,Howard Webb has added six more pages onto the end 

[JohnnyH]

Ginsoak has come out and said in book that Gerrard 'is not a top top player' Contradicting several quotes he had made in the past. This book has got to be a wind up, he's fucking nuts.

And the fact he tried to sign this "not a top top player" on 3 occasions...

 

I think it's a last attempt at showing power from a megalomaniac who now has no power left. It's totally backfired though and all these put upon journalists are now using it to say all the things they wanted to say when he was manager, but they thought they couldn't due to the fear of excommunication from the Old Trafford flock.

 

Britains richest socialist is very quickly becoming a figure of ridicule because of his hypocrisy. I don't think it'll be long before more people start concentrating on his European record as opposed to his league record and saying that he was "not a top top manager".

 

I'm enjoying seemg him being treated like a bitter old man. For some reason I keep thinking of the last days of Gadafi every time I see him.

[Jennings]

Dont know if this has already been posted, but Jon Snow gives him a proper grilling.

 

http://www.channel4.com/news/sir-alex-ferguson-fergie-manchester-united

 

Enjoyed that interview. Thanks for linking.

[Jennings]

http://www.channel4....nchester-united

 

I thought it was a respectful touch to the esteemed interviewee that the production team used a large paper bag as the background. The type of paper bag in which one might wrap...say...a gin bottle.

[Stickman]

Hope he doesn't go on The Graham Norton show the Green Room would look like Friday night in Yate's wine lodge after he's finished.

[Tony Moanero]

Alex Ferguson is a boring sod.

[Major Tom]

Alex Ferguson is a boring sod.

I actually don't like him.

 

He also rivals Code72 on the fundamental-lack-of-any-self-awareness-whatsoever front.

[The Guest]

Only watched the Snow interview last night. It's fucking brilliant. You can see him get very riled very quickly as Snow just doesn't pander to him in any way. When he asks him the political opinion questions he falls to pieces. They are so easy to answer as well. He just isn't used to being asked difficult questions.

[Trumo]

He said this back in 1996:

 

"A flare up on Saturday between [Peter] Schmeichel and [ian] Wright has spilled into the newspapers. There's been a complaint to the FA that our goalkeeper racially abused the Arsenal man… The whole business of racial abuse seems to have got out of hand these days."

"It doesn't help when people manufacture so-called racial incidents out of an everyday clash between two strong-minded players in the heat of a match. I hope no one at the FA is going to pander to this complaint. I hope no one at the FA is going to pander to this complaint, which is simply someone trying to make a mountain out of a molehill."

 

Was that knighthood really for services to hypocrisy?

 

Everything he's ever done and said has been for his own benefit, and yet he's managed to hoodwink so many into thinking that his presence in the game has served a greater good. 

[KMD7]

He said this back in 1996:

 

 

Was that knighthood really for services to hypocrisy?

 

Everything he's ever done and said has been for his own benefit, and yet he's managed to hoodwink so many into thinking that his presence in the game has served a greater good.

 

So true that.

[Stickman]

"I don't hold grudges*

 

From the man who brought back his two loan players from Preston because they sacked his son.....because he was doing shite by the way.

 

And then chief arse kisser Tony Pulis recalled his two loan players from Preston straight away.

[Jairzinho]

http://www.channel4....nchester-united

 

I thought it was a respectful touch to the esteemed interviewee that the production team used a large paper bag as the background. The type of paper bag in which one might wrap...say...a gin bottle.

 

Or a bundle of cash.

[Code]

What is a gait?

 

Never heard the word before.