This has got to be the worst, most lazy piece of journalism I've seen in my life. The
article piece of shite by Matthew Syed called "
Sir Alex Ferguson flouts his duties with boycott" is just an unbridled attack on Sir Alex Ferguson that appears to be an orchestrated assault on him by Syed's pay masters - News Corporation.
He has a go at Fergie for not talking to Sky Sports after the Liverpool game saying that this decision and not talking to the BBC is "scandalous". He also commented:
Rational arguments (facts, as Rafael Benítez might call them) mean little to a man in a state of such advanced paranoia that he alleged in January that the entire Barclays Premier League fixture list had been part of an elaborate conspiracy against United.
The great mistake was in not confronting Ferguson earlier. By indulging his tendency to petulance and megalomania, the Premier League has only itself to blame for the shameful situation in which its most high-profile manager flouts his responsibilities to broadcasters and fans as a matter of course.
Utter bullshit. Fergie has got to where he is today by not taking any crap off anyone, let alone oik hacks that have never played the game at the highest level and earn their crust writing about something that they ultimately know very little about and that sharp end of the sport.
What made me chuckle even more was this rant:
It is not just Sky - News Corporation, parent company of The Times has a 39.1 per cent stake in BSkyB - of course. The BBC, which pays almost £60 million a year on behalf of licence-fee payers for Premier League highlights, has not had access to Ferguson since 2004, ever since it aired a BBC Three documentary about his dealings with his son Jason, a football agent at the time. It is understood that Ferguson's boycott of our national broadcaster will never be rescinded.
Hilarious. Perhaps Syed forgets that we and I, ultimately pay HIS salary. I'm a Sky sports subscriber, I occasionally buy the Times. Perhaps, I, and the several million United fans in this country should boycott Sky Sports and Times because we don't like what you say and do? How would you like that? Would you like to join the lengthening dole queue?
This is nothing less than scandalous, not least when you consider that United have a contractual obligation to put up a senior management figure for interview, as well as a moral responsibility to the millions of fans who tune in on Saturday and Sunday evenings hoping to hear the views of the single most important and knowledgeable person in English football.
So Fergie has bore a grudge, defending his family against unproven slurs from the BBC - that's his right. Syed forgets the boycott that Liverpool fans have made against the Sun Newspaper (part of the same group) for 20 fucking years - even though the Sun have apologised on many occasions. Now THAT is petty and childish!
That isn't as niave as Syed's next comments:
That he bawls out journalists who ask awkward questions as a matter of course? That he has banned so many scribes that his own press office finds it difficult to keep track of who's in and who's out?
Give it time and Ferguson will think nothing of banning opposition managers from Old Trafford on the ground that they dared suggest they might beat United.
Just because he takes a stand against you fuck-whits when you write what the fuck you like thinking you'll get away with it. I've seen News International's newspapers come up with complete and utter lies in the persuit of more readers. And when Fergie decides he's not going to feed you any more information because you'll just make up whatever shit you like, you start to moan like scolded children.
Most sensible Manchester United fans agree that Ferguson's behaviour is less than reasonable, but they do so with a shrug of the shoulders and with the sentiment that this is a price English football must pay for having such a rare talent in its midst. But this simply will not do.
What is "sensible"? Are "sensible Manchester United fans" those that agree with you? Well, you ain't gonna find many that do! But the thing is you're so deluded, and I fear you've sold your soul to write this drivel!
Listen to yourself:
That Ferguson is one of the football's most brilliant managers does not excuse him from the duties that the majority of his counterparts discharge with such diligence and, quite often, humour and aplomb.
Have you ever been to a pre-match press-conference at Carrington? They're the most humourous, laid-back press-conferences you'll ever witness.
Nearly as funny as these comments of yours:
That is why Sky Sports should give him a taste of his own medicine by “boycotting” payment of United's share of the television rights income, estimated at a total of about £50 million.
The thing is, it is Sky Sports, not Sir Alex Ferguson that thinks they are above the law and above the ethics of the game? Who are Sky Sports accountable to? Well Sir Alex can't breathe without getting a fine from the FA, who censures Sky Sports? Andy Grey can say what he likes (most of it utter shite) and he gets away with it. Think about that before you spout off because your pay-masters don't like being put in their place by the most successful British manager of all time! Where's your Pulitzer?
