Ferguson: Inconsistent
If Alex Ferguson wasn’t currently en route to a potential treble I’d say the man has finally lost the plot. In the last few weeks he’s ranted at referees, the FA and even the Superintendent of Wolverhampton police! He appears to be on a one man crusade for consistency in refereeing and disciplinary procedures. It’s ironic as the man shows zero consistency in his own outbursts. For example:
Saturday 26th February – Wayne Rooney assaults Wigan’s James McCarthy with an elbow to the head. Choosing to ignore the incident completely and switch focus to the media, Ferguson claims there will be a witch hunt against his player.
Alex Ferguson – “"There is nothing in it.”
6thMarch – Nani is on the receiving end of a poor tackle from Jamie Carragher. However, if Rooney's elbow had nothing in it, surely this kind of tackle wasn't worthy of comment Fergie? Course not,
Alex Ferguson – “"It was a disgraceful tackle.”
2nd March – United lose at Chelsea, Ferguson switches the attention away from the result and onto the referee therefore putting pressure onto the referee.
Alex Ferguson – “"It's hard to take, we didn't deserve that. You hope you get a really strong referee in games like this. It was a major game for both clubs and you want a fair referee, you know... you want a strong referee anyway and we didn't get that. I must tell you – I must say that when I saw who was refereeing it, I feared the worst.”
8th April – Ferguson feels sympathy for pressure put onto referees.
Alex Ferguson – “Mason has now put himself in the spotlight. If he doesn't send a player off for swearing the question will be, has he got double standards? It is a very difficult position the lad is in. I feel for him. I really do. I don't know where his career is going to go now.”
Now I wouldn’t suggest that Ferguson is the only manager who comes out with garbage like this but the sheer volume of it at the moment is hilarious and he is turning himself into a circus act. For Alex Ferguson to accuse somebody of putting pressure onto a referee would be like Davina McCall accusing someone of being annoying. He’s been doing it for years. Some people claim this is all part of Ferguson’s games which they probably are, but Ferguson’s games are nothing more than a man who has become so arrogant (see his rant at Superintendent Mark Payne if in any doubt of this) he is becoming a joke.
There was a time when Ferguson ruled Old Trafford with a rod of iron, but now he has to kowtow to the Glazer’s it’s a different story. In the past Wayne Rooney would never have gotten away with his transfer request, he would have been on the first plane to La Liga or Serie A. But since they crippled the club with their debts Ferguson knows he won’t be seeing much of the money to reinvest and being just one title away from “knocking Liverpool off their fucking perch” it’s in his interest to keep his mouth shut and win the one remaining title he needs.
Ferguson’s pathetic behaviour and his attitude to all things non Man United will guarantee that despite an honours list as long as anyone’s, unlike Matt Busby, he will never been appreciated or remembered fondly outside anywhere but Old Trafford.
Gareth Bale
There is a depressing inevitability that Gareth Bale will clean up King’s Speech style when the PFA hand out their yearly gongs. Please, please, please don’t let this happen. Anybody who watches a Tottenham game on British television would be forgiven for seeing Bale as the second coming of Our Lord such is the overreaction to his season. Not to say I don’t think he is a good player who will probably develop into a “top top playa” to quote his manager ‘Awwy Wedknapp but for him to win the PFA Player of the Year this season would be madness. It seems that because he tore the arse off Maicon against Inter Milan twice this season the typically British media driven frenzy of hype has propelled Bale into the same category as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Not helped by his club manager claiming he was worth 80m in the build up to the European Cup tie in Madrid last week. When it was announced he would miss the Euro Qualifier against England last month Wales’s chances were suddenly dismissed, when in reality, the never stood any chance! A whole nation’s hopes resting on one player. What are they England? It’s light relief that Bale wasn’t born on the other side of the border, if he was English he probably would have been knighted by now.
Gareth Bale has plenty of time to win those kinds of awards, as for this season I think it would be in the words of Roberto Martinez, “a football crime”, if Player of the Year didn’t go to either Scott Parker or Nemanja Vidic. Even though it’s a horrible cliché, if West Ham had “a team of Scott Parker’s” they wouldn’t be staring relegation in the face and Vidic has had another brilliant season which could still end up with a treble. In Bale’s case, remove the media hysteria that has engulfed the lad and he hasn’t had half the season Sky Sports would like us all to believe, even if Maicon is still suffering from sleepless nights.
The S*n
How fitting that in the week of the 22nd anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster that The News of the World has finally owned up to the phone hacking scandal. With it being the Sunday edition of, The S*n and part of Rupert Murdoch’s empire nobody should be surprised to hear the news.
It’s very noble of them to have set up a £20 million compensation fund for the victims like sexist tosser Andy Gray and media rat Max Clifford. Their apology couldn’t come quick enough to this bunch of idiots yet where was their apology and £20 million worth of compensation for the lies they told about the victims of the Hillsborough disaster? It took them 15 years to apologise for accusing people of pick pocketing the dead, urinating on “brave cops” and beating up a police officer who was giving the kiss of life. Those lies still affect people to this day and they have never truly been put right with scum of the earth Kelvin McKenzie admitting he wasn’t sorry then and isn’t sorry now.
The families and friends of the victims havent't only suffer the loss of their loved ones but also the lies spread by News International for twenty two years. But as soon as a few celebrity wasters suffer they are paid off handsomely. It’s just another pathetic and sad example of the gap between these morons and the real world.
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