Sir Alex Ferguson on thin ice in carrying on criticism of referees

[Marky]

It's brilliant, he's going into meltdown. Basically he's not had to cope with this for about 20 years. Now his team are turd and losing fairly often, he can't deal with it and blames it all on the refs. People have this bull**** idea of him being a good bloke, a magnanimous, sporting chap....well, it's ****ing easy to be sporting when you win all the time. What an appalling cunt he is.

FFS Shaggy, United are one point off Chelsea(albeit Chelsea have a game in hand) they're in the Carling Cup semi-final and in the last 16 of the Champions League. Not to mention they more often than not hit top form from Jan-May and they've also 2 or 3 key players to come back from injury. They've been very poor in alot of games this season and below the standards they set but if they pick up the League at the end of the season that won't even be mentioned.

It baffles me that people write United off every season around this time of the year, if not before. Come May time they're often left with egg on their face.

[Reece]

You tell him Marky

[Marky]

Would you agree with my sentiments?

[Lee]

I hate that old cunt

[GTi]

Hes an appalling old cunt. Hate him with a passion. Looks like Blakey in that ****ing ridiculous oversized coat. I detest this man.

[Exiled_red]

Every ****ing game he criticises the referee at the moment. It's ridiculous that he continuously gets away with it.

Every ****ing game he criticises the referee at the moment. It's ridiculous that he continuously gets away with it.

Well maybe he'd stop doing it if he didn't always get away with it. The FA have to do punish him every time, not just once in a while.

He is taking the piss - he is doing it on purpose, he is pushing the fa as far as he can. I hate the ****er - I can't wait for the day he finally ****s off from football tho I am not looking forward the inevitable fanfare and media coverage love in when it finally happens.

United look so shaky at the moment - it's such a shame that we are in such a mess cause we could have really punished them this season.

Slowly though, ever since the rafa rant, we are starting to see bits of the media having little bites at him - he's slowly becoming not untouchable and i think he knows it,

He's got a two match suspended ban from critisising the officials, and the last two games Leeds and Birmingham he's done it and seems to have got away with it

I'd love to know what the official criteria for taking action against managers is, because there must be one but the enforcement of it isvery inconsistent

[Joe King]

He's got a suspended sentence for berating referees but he's still going after them. Last week, five minutes wasn't enough, he got six this week and still he criticises the refs. I think the Referee's Association should force Riley out of his job and give Ferguson the head role. He fully deserves it.

[SimonNo7]

He's got a two match suspended ban from critisising the officials, and the last two games Leeds and Birmingham he's done it and seems to have got away with it

I'd love to know what the official criteria for taking action against managers is, because there must be one but the enforcement of it isvery inconsistent

He has got away with it. No further action to be taken according to Sky Sports website.

[CJ]

he isnt in on thin ice is he. he can do what he wants and its ****.

still one day!!!

[Exiled_red]

He has got away with it. No further action to be taken according to Sky Sports website.

[Shaggy]

FFS Shaggy, United are one point off Chelsea(albeit Chelsea have a game in hand) they're in the Carling Cup semi-final and in the last 16 of the Champions League. Not to mention they more often than not hit top form from Jan-May and they've also 2 or 3 key players to come back from injury. They've been very poor in alot of games this season and below the standards they set but if they pick up the League at the end of the season that won't even be mentioned.

It baffles me that people write United off every season around this time of the year, if not before. Come May time they're often left with egg on their face.

My point was that they are considerably worse than they have been for ages and are losing many more games than usual - and he can't deal with it. Argue with that.

[BFG]

Groundhog day.

[sambirken]

he isnt in on thin ice is he. he can do what he wants and its ****.

still one day!!!

The problem is the F.A are a bunch of spineless cowards. We remember what happened last week, he called 5 minutes of extra time "an insult to the players" and got 6 the next game. Now it's basically guaranteed that the next time their player should get a red card, the ref will bottle it. They always do, it's how he works.

Agree with both of these, unfortuniverlartily.

It's like Drogba's diving, everyone sees it, but the refs and the FA think it's fine and fall for it and always will.

[dww]

To be honest I can see why they didn't go after him for this - managers often say similar things. I hope however they are noting it down as last time they gave him less punishment than otherwise for what amounted to previous good behaviour which is clearly bollocks. I have my doubts they will do though.

[Neil Young]

Slagging off the ref is a good way for him to ensure the media don't lead with reports of how **** his team has played, how his rotation has cost them matches, how most of his signings are failures, etc.