Talking of the "drunken old fart", BBC Radio Four keep tailing a programme that's on tonight - all about Ferguson, "an interview with a legend". Sycophancy coming up by the bucketload. I bet they don't ask him " When are you going to call it a day and let the new boss do his own thing?" , or "What do you make of the mess the rags are in now, after the rubbish you bequeathed to them?"
Not only that, I noted from the TV listings that something called Pick TV was showing a programme the other night about the history of Man United, "directed and co-written by Eric Cantona", and entitled (sickeningly) "The United Way".
I think there's only the rise of the Nazis that gets more blanket TV coverage than this lot. And on Sky as often as not "Premier League legends: Gary Neville".
All about the past. Cos that's where that lot belong.