Sir Alex Ferguson’s blatant whining and arrogance have been part and parcel of English football for quarter of a century now. All but Manchester United fans don’t care a jot for what he says (most can’t understand what the hell he is saying without subtitles anyway – he is less comprehensible than Rab C Nesbitt most days). So when he left the club – which he refers to as “the greatest club in the world” – and the manager role there (“the biggest job in the world” – yeah, eat your heart out Obama) went to the far more comprehensible David Moyes, the world (except Manchester United fans) took one massive sigh of relief thinking this foolish old windbag would be off our screens and clear of our airwaves forever.
Alas, that is not how things have played out. Ferguson can be seen at the Theatre of Debts each and every match day like the Phantom of the Opera chewing away on some dreadful piece of chewing gum. He makes post match comments only hours after poor, underperforming Moyes. And now he has some awful biography (written by a ghost writer) on sale which he is signing away copies of in supermarkets. Classy kind of guy.
The book has been widely received as the jottings of someone who, albeit successful at football, is an insecure character with a craving for power whose life has turned into one of the biggest hypocrisies known to man. Here is a race-horse owning, prestige car-driving club Director who clearly enjoys all the trappings of capitalism yet who claims to be a socialist – a fan more of the failure Brown than the disgraced Blair – who harks back to his working class roots which he claims made him to be be who he is today. (If you get a chance, see Jon Snow’s dismantling of Ferguson on Channel 4 News – a top interview by a top interviewer who Ferguson simply didn’t have the guile or brains for – used to the sycophantic soft probing of John Motson or Angel Gabriel Clark.)
Thanks be to God for recent advances in education and the classless society in modern day Britain that bigots like Ferguson do not get created so often these days.
The good news is that Ferguson is not planning on publishing another tome – likely he will insult his ghost writer at some point soon in the press and that will be the end of that. Also, he has left Manchester United with one of the crappest teams in the league, so we won’t have to see his ugly mug at Champions League matches next season (nor likely for much longer this season).
Meanwhile, David Beckham remains one of the most courteous and popular men in Britain, Roy Keane is becoming quite a good pundit, Owen Hargreaves is growing on viewers on BT Sport (one of those rare footballers – he has a brain), Liverpool are becoming a force again in the top league and basically anyone that Ferguson had an ill-judged pop at in his book is going to be more in the public eye than he or his Swiss cheese of a legacy is over the next twenty years.
Ferguson’s record is impressive. You do the best with what you have got – agreed. If financial fair play comes into existence, it is then that we will see who the really talented managers are and whether those currently relying on big budgets (often made of big debt) are just hairdryer bullies or have the nous that is required to take apart teams on more equal resources. Ferguson avoided the Scottish job…why?
The uneducated Ferguson claims he is a socialist. He hated Thatcher but let’s quote that woman (who achieved far more than he ever could) – “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money [to spend].” Poor Old Moyes. Soon he will wish he never left Everton.
Sir Alex Ferguson – go to the history books where you belong. There lies your place in posterity – well behind Shankly, del Bosque and, dare I say it, Mourinho.
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