May 3, 2011
Alex Ferguson: Football’s Walt Kowalski?
Oh Alex Ferguson, I despise thee. Sure you’ve accomplished a great deal in football management, but you’re quickly undoing all the positives by continuing to act like bitter old man. You’re football’s version of Walt Kowalski, except Walt allowed the changing world around him to teach him a lesson.
You continue unfazed down this path of trying to convince people that your club is somehow the constant victim of organized and conspiratorial bias by the FA and any other football governing body who’s upset you lately. In fact, I’m wondering if we could place bets at an online sportsbook about what crack pot theory Ferguson will come up with next.
After Manchester United’s 1-0 loss to Arsenal last weekend, Fergie unleashed again on referees.
“We’re not going to get the decisions in these big games, we are not going to get decisions like that in a major game. It’s too big a game and we don’t seem to get these decisions.”
Umm, really? You’re not going to get decisions in big game? Can we please get a spreadsheet or venn diagram that properly explains the countless number of times that Manchester United has benefited from questionable calls in big matches that are in their favor?
Managers need to be making comments in the press and acting as lightning rods for criticism to keep their players free to focus on performing on the pitch, but when it comes to Fergie, it’s just plain absurd.
The FA investigated these latest comments and chose not to punish Fergusob, who just came off a five-match ban for his statements about Martin Atkinson, with a source within the FA explained the decision by saying that Ferguson’s comments were “cryptic, but hardly worth a charge”…I guess, but at this point shouldn’t the FA be slapping Fergie with charges anytime he says anything about officials? It doesn’t matter if he’s being “cryptic” because we all know exactly what he’s doing.
It’s the same crap, the same whining, the same complaining. Forget that he’s on the verge of winning yet another Premier League title with United, he’s an unlikeable jackass, plain and simple.
I suppose it doesn’t matter since Ferguson’s rants are accomplishing little more than destroying his already crumbling reputation with all of the football world that hasn’t completely bought in to the false mythos that surround him. United fans will continue to blindly praise him, but in the end, his ruined historical reputation will probably be punishment enough.
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