Pisshead forced to Speak to the BBC

[Jennings]

To be honest I am not that arsed whether he speaks or not - but the FA make themselves appear so weak. They should make it a club issue. Why do they allow it to be a personal issue - and then deal with it in a wishy-washy manner. The manager of the club should attend, or the club gets penalised.

[ngogswilly]

I'd laugh if he refused to talk to SKY. It'd be funny watching all of their staffs head explode in confusion

[goatboy59]

The only Ferguson interview I want to see is with Christian Szell.

[torahboy]

I only ever watch the BBC's coverage of football, and I miss hearing and seeing Sir Follow Through's reaction to his team's performances. His continued boycott of the BBC and its football coverage is very disappointing.

 

But I recorded his eulogy at Jimmy Reid's funeral, which was shown on the BBC, so I can take the best bits of that and splice it in with the Match of the Day's reporters' questions. Something like "So, Sir Wet Fart, what did you think of Paul Scholes' performance?". "He was a great man and we're all going to miss him". Or something like that.

[gkmacca]

The idiot doesn't even have logic on his side when it comes to his boycott: if he wants an apology from BBC News & Current Affairs, it's no good boycotting BBC Sport. What the hell does he think they have to do with Panorama? And, anyway, all Panorama did was investigate what most of us wanted investigating - the alleged failings of his son were part of that. Ginsoak makes far worse allegations about refs and FA bosses several times a season. He's a pathetic hypocrite, and now he's crawled far enough up Labour grandees' arseholes to get his KBE he's acting again like an old Tory crook.

[goatboy59]

That the cunt was allowed anywhere near Jimmy Reid's funeral is enough to make me want to kill something.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

Collision course? HA!

 

The FA will just ruffle his hair like they always do. "What are we going to do with you, eh?" Cowards. Throw the book at the purple nosed cunt.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Spiteful and childish old cunt.

 

I hope I've got the Sky + ready when he does a Jock Stein.

 

Hopefully, before too long, he'll be having a frame of snooker with Hurricaine Higgins.

[gkmacca]

Even his 'great mate,' the similarly endearing and honest Alastair Campbell, is happy enough appearing on the BBC, after doing his best to destroy it (thanks for that, Al). And what exactly does Ginsoak want this 'apology' to say? 'Sorry for investigating your son after we received allegations from several different sources that he was taking bungs'? The man's insane.

[RedEagle]

Still pisses me off

 

BBC News | Football | Sir Alex: The working class hero

 

Sport: Football

 

Sir Alex: The working class hero

 

Alex Ferguson has received a knighthood from the queen

 

The people of Govan will no doubt be raising a glass or two for their most famous export after Alex Ferguson, their archetypal working-class hero, was knighted for his services to football.

 

United's treble triumph

Indeed, Manchester United's spectacular victory in the European Cup not only sealed an unparalleled treble with the League title and FA Cup, but it secured their Govan born manager, Alex Ferguson, with his fourth honour of the season and a place in soccer sainthood.

 

As soon as the final whistle was blown on their wonderful season, chants of Sir Alex could be heard reverberating around the streets of Barcelona.

 

And sure enough Scotland's most famous working class son received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours for guiding them to an unprecedented treble.

 

 

[ image: Alex Ferguson holds aloft one of the three trophies which his side won this season]

Alex Ferguson holds aloft one of the three trophies which his side won this season

Tony Banks, who was one of the first to call for Fergie to be knighted, said after witnessing United's victory: "You can't negotiate the honours list over radio or television.

 

"But let me tell you this, if anyone asked my opinion it would be: Yes, he certainly should."

 

As he collects his honour, the pattering of Fergie's feet will doubtless be heard by down Sir Matt Busby Way, as the young apprentice finally followed in his masters footsteps by joining him amongst football's few immortals.

 

Image slip

 

Even Ferguson himself, famed for his dourness and eyes like a sulking child, let the image slip when United sealed trophy number three.

 

"You can't top this because this is the pinnacle," he said, in the aftermath of United's historic victory in Barcelona.

 

"You can equal it and we can try to maintain our high standards."

 

For once Ferguson was wrong as he added the most prestigious syllable going to his name and yet another page to his blossoming catalogue of smiles.

 

Queens Birthday Honours

After performing miracles at Aberdeen and Old Trafford, "Fergie" is now a British footballing icon to rank alongside Sir Matt, who established United as a world class outfit in the 1950s, and whose reputation every United manager since has been trying to rival.

 

In truth, Ferguson, 57, had been a worthy heir to the Busby crown even before the victory against Bayern Munich. Since he broke a 20 year drought to bring the league title home to Old Trafford in 1993, he has delivered on his promises.

 

The side has topped the Premiership in five of the last seven years.

 

Born in Glasgow to a Protestant, working class family, his leadership skills first came to the fore as a shop steward in the Clyde shipyards, when Ferguson led an unofficial walk-out over a pay dispute.

 

Impressive

 

His first love had always been football and Ferguson cut a reasonably impressive figure with Rangers. But he was made a scapegoat in the team's humiliating 4-0 defeat against arch rivals Celtic in the 1969 Cup Final.

 

 

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As a rumbustious striker Ferguson never remotely possessed the playing prowess which earned Stanley Matthews, Bobby Charlton, Tom Finney and World Cup winner Geoff Hurst similar honours but the day he cut his teeth in management at St Mirren, the medalsbegan to roll off the production line.

 

His tough-talking, hands-on approach was a winner and Ferguson smashed the Celtic-Rangers "Old Firm" monopoly, winning three championships, four Scottish Cups and the European Cup Winners' Cup in six years.

 

Known for his fiery temper, he also won the reputation of a fiercely loyal coach who invests time and effort in star players and apprentices alike.

 

It is this mix-and-match approach which has served him so well at Manchester, where Ferguson has weaved home-gown talent and foreign flair into cohesive, gutsy sides.

 

Low point

 

Yet the going has not always been good for him at Old Trafford, where initially his abilities were called into question by the fans. The low point came in 1989 when the team found itself hammered 5-1 by its most bitter rivals, Manchester City.

 

But chairman Martin Edwards and the board did not waver, a 1990 FA Cup victory bought him valuable time.

 

The family atmosphere he had worked hard to establish was bearing fruit and three years later the Guv'nor from Govan finally brought home the League title.

 

His management style has been thoroughly analysed by lovers of the sport. They have attributed his success to factors as diverse as a "working class ability" to asses the qualities of men around him, and "tunnel vision".

 

Father of three

 

 

[ image: Alex Ferguson has guided Manchester United to a unique treble]

Alex Ferguson has guided Manchester United to a unique treble

Whatever his given talents, Ferguson, who is married to Cathy and a father of three grown-up sons, also puts in the hours. He is usually at the ground by 0730 and regularly works 18-hour days. He is loyal to his players although never shy to give them a blast of his temper.

 

For someone so consumed by football, it may come as a surprise that he has outside interests. He owns a racehorse and has been a high profile campaigner for Tony Blair and the Labour Party.

 

So now Fergie is at the "pinnacle", has his seemingly insatiable thirst for glory been quenched after a treble win and an honour from the Queen.

 

Not a bit. Last month, while contemplating the three cups that have since come his way, he commented: "Even if we win all three, I'd want to go out and win it again."

 

Tonight, Sir Alex, treat yourself to a double - or, more appropriately, a treble.

[ngogswilly]

Working class red nosed, ref influencing, motorway boxers shitting, magical non-existent injury time adding prick.

[Moo]

FERGUSON SNUB BREAKS PL RULES

 

The Premier League and Sir Alex Ferguson appear on a collision course after the Manchester United manager maintained his stance of not giving interviews to the BBC.

 

After United played Fulham on Sunday, Ferguson was expected to end his boycott of speaking to the corporation, which dates back to 2004, amid pressure from the Premier League and League Managers' Association.

 

But the United manager has opted to continue his current position with assistant Mike Phelan available to provide analysis and comment should the BBC request it.

 

The Premier League reacted with disappointment to the news.

 

A statement from the governing body read: "The Premier League is disappointed that the BBC and Manchester United have, as yet, been unable to resolve the issue of Sir Alex Ferguson providing post-match interviews.

 

"We will, of course, continue to monitor the situation and offer any help deemed necessary by either party to try and help remedy the situation.

 

"However, this is a breach of Premier League rules and the board will consider the appropriate course of action at their next meeting scheduled for late September."

 

Football365 | All The News | Football News | FERGUSON SNUB BREAKS PL RULES

 

Good to see they're taking it seriously, as ever.

[dave u]

I'd like to see them take a hardline stance on this one. Break his fucking legs, that'll teach him, the cantankerous old cunt.

[RobbieOR]

The BBC should just refuse to show the mancs until he caves in. He wants them to grovel on their hands and kness for forgiveness. He's a stubborn little piss head cunt so the BBC should be cunts on this one.

[Anubis]

That the cunt was allowed anywhere near Jimmy Reid's funeral is enough to make me want to kill something.

 

Yup.

 

Personally, I prefer not having to watch him dribble words on MotD.

[RedEagle]

I'm fucking outraged he was allowed to Jimmy Reid's funeral. Ferguson is a horrible champagne socialist.

[Section_31]

I'm always surprised at how many hard-core mancs can't stand ferguson, a lad I know is as dyed-in-the-wool as you can get, used to run a manc fanzine and helped setup FC United, he doesn't follow the mancs' matches at all and despises Ferguson for all the 'champagne socialist' reasons stated above.

[Lucky Pierre]

They'll fine him a tenner or something.

[chorlton]

Managers should not have to piss about with post match interviews. Especially given the pointlessness of it all. The sports press in this country are shit anyway. So you end up with pointless questions with stock answers.

 

Load of rubbish, demento is still a twonk though.

[The Special One]

I wish they'd investigate his suspicious activity with referees. Give him a proper reason to be pissed off.

[mypost]

The BBC should just refuse to show the mancs until he caves in.

 

They're contracted to show them, as are the other networks that have PL rights.

 

Tbh, I don't know what we'd learn from listening to him. Our old boss never refused to speak to the press, yet had very little to say. Fans give far more revealing interviews than spinning club officials.

[nickjt]

Someone on here posted the best solution a while back:

 

the BBC should show uniteds game, show the oppositions manager interview, then, instead of interviewing Phelan, they should have a stock message they show every week. Something like 'due to an ongoing dispute sir alex ferguson refuses to speak to the BBC.'

 

simple, united are shown but they have no feedback. He'd be wound up to fuck knowing he wasn't getting uniteds spin across regarding refs and decisions etc.

 

(felt dirty putting the sir in their, in quotes, not my words)

[fowler9]

i dunno why they bother with interviews on MOTD anyway, everyone knows thats when you go for your snack

[Manny]

Yup.

 

Personally, I prefer not having to watch him dribble words on MotD.

 

Normally, I'd agree. But it's pretty uncomfortable watching Mike Phelan snivel his way through a post-match interview in his absence. The BBC should simply not show any interviews with any of their staff.

[WaltonRed]

Fuck him the arl twat