Ferguson reacts to Ashley Williams...

[The Flash]

Did they really? Any proof of this?

Here you go:

"Very early in my Premier League career I sent Roy Keane off and incurred Fergie's wrath for doing so," said Winter, according to The Sun.

"In the course of the next two seasons I did not get a single Manchester United game, even though I refereed every other Premier League club at least five or six times. I was not afraid to stand up to him and I think he knew that.

So, does Sir Alex Ferguson influence the Barclays Premier League through his relationships with and behaviour towards match officials? Undoubtedly, Yes.

That, in the trade, is known as "owned" I believe.

It's "pwned" sir, "pwnd".

 

[SWP's back]

Here you go:

That, in the trade, is known as "owned" I believe.

It's "pwned" sir, "pwnd".

Broken keyboard?

 

[Matty]

I didn't realise quite how depressed Gareth Barry was, I mean to attempt suicide in the way he did on Saturday must surely be a call for help? We're just lucky that deadly cross from Silva resulted in a goal and nothing more tragic......

Anyone with half a brain knows why Fergie said what he did, deflection. United had dropped 2 points away to Swansea, they hadn't played too well, Rooney in particular is acknowledged to have had quite possibly his worst game ever in a United shirt. Their 6 points lead has been cut to 4 points, when at 90+2 minutes on Saturday it looked like it would be an 8 point gap at Christmas. Is anyone talking about these things? Are they questioning yet another poor United performance? Another De Gea mistake? Rooney's debacle of a display? No. They're talking about a minor incident in the game, one which would have been forgotten at full time if Fergie hadn't made it the key aspect of his post match rant. He does this all the time, and the media are happy to lap it up as they care less about actually addressing the sport and more about sensationalisation and sales/viewing figures.

 

[Pigeonho]

I didn't realise quite how depressed Gareth Barry was, I mean to attempt suicide in the way he did on Saturday must surely be a call for help? We're just lucky that deadly cross from Silva resulted in a goal and nothing more tragic......

Anyone with half a brain knows why Fergie said what he did, deflection. United had dropped 2 points away to Swansea, they hadn't played too well, Rooney in particular is acknowledged to have had quite possibly his worst game ever in a United shirt. Their 6 points lead has been cut to 4 points, when at 90+2 minutes on Saturday it looked like it would be an 8 point gap at Christmas. Is anyone talking about these things? Are they questioning yet another poor United performance? Another De Gea mistake? Rooney's debacle of a display? No. They're talking about a minor incident in the game, one which would have been forgotten at full time if Fergie hadn't made it the key aspect of his post match rant. He does this all the time, and the media are happy to lap it up as they care less about actually addressing the sport and more about sensationalisation and sales/viewing figures.

That's great, but doesn't mean those things didn't happen. I watched it and you are right, Rooney had a shocker, as did Evra, infact it was funny how easy Routledge found it to get by Evra on each and every opportunity he had. Thing is though it's funny to listen to what Fergie said, infact as I listened to his post-match interview I had to ask myself if he actually said 'he could have been killed'. None of it though takes away that the other things happened in the game.

 

[mad4city]

All I could think of when I heard the interview was this:


<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SrGB_vb0Zg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SrGB_vb0Zg</a>

 

[Matty]

I didn't realise quite how depressed Gareth Barry was, I mean to attempt suicide in the way he did on Saturday must surely be a call for help? We're just lucky that deadly cross from Silva resulted in a goal and nothing more tragic......

Anyone with half a brain knows why Fergie said what he did, deflection. United had dropped 2 points away to Swansea, they hadn't played too well, Rooney in particular is acknowledged to have had quite possibly his worst game ever in a United shirt. Their 6 points lead has been cut to 4 points, when at 90+2 minutes on Saturday it looked like it would be an 8 point gap at Christmas. Is anyone talking about these things? Are they questioning yet another poor United performance? Another De Gea mistake? Rooney's debacle of a display? No. They're talking about a minor incident in the game, one which would have been forgotten at full time if Fergie hadn't made it the key aspect of his post match rant. He does this all the time, and the media are happy to lap it up as they care less about actually addressing the sport and more about sensationalisation and sales/viewing figures.

That's great, but doesn't mean those things didn't happen. I watched it and you are right, Rooney had a shocker, as did Evra, infact it was funny how easy Routledge found it to get by Evra on each and every opportunity he had. Thing is though it's funny to listen to what Fergie said, infact as I listened to his post-match interview I had to ask myself if he actually said 'he could have been killed'. None of it though takes away that the other things happened in the game.

True, but he doesn't have to answer multiple questions about them for the next couple of days though does he?

Fergie is a master at deflecting attention away from things he doesn't want to talk about and controlling the dialogue he has with the media. Yesterday was just another example of this. No tricky questions about form, about their upcoming fixtures, about City now being closer to them than before, just a rant about a minor issue and an agenda he can control.

 

[Pigeonho]

I didn't realise quite how depressed Gareth Barry was, I mean to attempt suicide in the way he did on Saturday must surely be a call for help? We're just lucky that deadly cross from Silva resulted in a goal and nothing more tragic......

Anyone with half a brain knows why Fergie said what he did, deflection. United had dropped 2 points away to Swansea, they hadn't played too well, Rooney in particular is acknowledged to have had quite possibly his worst game ever in a United shirt. Their 6 points lead has been cut to 4 points, when at 90+2 minutes on Saturday it looked like it would be an 8 point gap at Christmas. Is anyone talking about these things? Are they questioning yet another poor United performance? Another De Gea mistake? Rooney's debacle of a display? No. They're talking about a minor incident in the game, one which would have been forgotten at full time if Fergie hadn't made it the key aspect of his post match rant. He does this all the time, and the media are happy to lap it up as they care less about actually addressing the sport and more about sensationalisation and sales/viewing figures.

That's great, but doesn't mean those things didn't happen. I watched it and you are right, Rooney had a shocker, as did Evra, infact it was funny how easy Routledge found it to get by Evra on each and every opportunity he had. Thing is though it's funny to listen to what Fergie said, infact as I listened to his post-match interview I had to ask myself if he actually said 'he could have been killed'. None of it though takes away that the other things happened in the game.

True, but he doesn't have to answer multiple questions about them for the next couple of days though does he?

Fergie is a master at deflecting attention away from things he doesn't want to talk about and controlling the dialogue he has with the media. Yesterday was just another example of this. No tricky questions about form, about their upcoming fixtures, about City now being closer to them than before, just a rant about a minor issue and an agenda he can control.

For the good of his team it's good though, no? Not sure who the interviewer was but if he had more balls about him he should have said 'yes that was unfortunate, however I would like to talk about'....*insert Rooney/Evra here*

People aren't always swayed by what they see/hear in/from the media. Those who watched that game wouldn't have needed the interviewer to raise the questions, as it was clear that United in general, more so Rooney and Evra, stank the place out with that performance.

 

[squirtyflower]

That's great, but doesn't mean those things didn't happen. I watched it and you are right, Rooney had a shocker, as did Evra, infact it was funny how easy Routledge found it to get by Evra on each and every opportunity he had. Thing is though it's funny to listen to what Fergie said, infact as I listened to his post-match interview I had to ask myself if he actually said 'he could have been killed'. None of it though takes away that the other things happened in the game.

True, but he doesn't have to answer multiple questions about them for the next couple of days though does he?

Fergie is a master at deflecting attention away from things he doesn't want to talk about and controlling the dialogue he has with the media. Yesterday was just another example of this. No tricky questions about form, about their upcoming fixtures, about City now being closer to them than before, just a rant about a minor issue and an agenda he can control.

For the good of his team it's good though, no? Not sure who the interviewer was but if he had more balls about him he should have said 'yes that was unfortunate, however I would like to talk about'....*insert Rooney/Evra here*

People aren't always swayed by what they see/hear in/from the media. Those who watched that game wouldn't have needed the interviewer to raise the questions, as it was clear that United in general, more so Rooney and Evra, stank the place out with that performance.

Of course they could
It's not as if he's ever banned a reporter from the swamp for asking a difficult question

 

[Matty]

True, but he doesn't have to answer multiple questions about them for the next couple of days though does he?

Fergie is a master at deflecting attention away from things he doesn't want to talk about and controlling the dialogue he has with the media. Yesterday was just another example of this. No tricky questions about form, about their upcoming fixtures, about City now being closer to them than before, just a rant about a minor issue and an agenda he can control.

For the good of his team it's good though, no? Not sure who the interviewer was but if he had more balls about him he should have said 'yes that was unfortunate, however I would like to talk about'....*insert Rooney/Evra here*

People aren't always swayed by what they see/hear in/from the media. Those who watched that game wouldn't have needed the interviewer to raise the questions, as it was clear that United in general, more so Rooney and Evra, stank the place out with that performance.

Of course they could
It's not as if he's ever banned a reporter from the swamp for asking a difficult question

Yet another method of controlling the media. How dare you ask a pertinent, probbing question, cow down to me, print/report what I want or you'll never set foot inside Old Trafford again.

Then he shoots electricity out of his fingers.....

 

[Pigeonho]

True, but he doesn't have to answer multiple questions about them for the next couple of days though does he?

Fergie is a master at deflecting attention away from things he doesn't want to talk about and controlling the dialogue he has with the media. Yesterday was just another example of this. No tricky questions about form, about their upcoming fixtures, about City now being closer to them than before, just a rant about a minor issue and an agenda he can control.

For the good of his team it's good though, no? Not sure who the interviewer was but if he had more balls about him he should have said 'yes that was unfortunate, however I would like to talk about'....*insert Rooney/Evra here*

People aren't always swayed by what they see/hear in/from the media. Those who watched that game wouldn't have needed the interviewer to raise the questions, as it was clear that United in general, more so Rooney and Evra, stank the place out with that performance.

Of course they could
It's not as if he's ever banned a reporter from the swamp for asking a difficult question

Isn't that in a pre-match conference though, when he's bizarrely coordinated and dictated what can and cannot be asked? I doubt he would be able to ban someone for asking about a performance which wasn't good, if the RVP thing had already been addressed. He could have shown himself up even more by refusing to answer it, but the interviewer should have put him in that position in the first place.