Source: Telegraph
Manchester United's Sir Alex Ferguson won't be kissing cameras for a while
12.00 THE HEADLINES THIS HOUR
Like all the best 'affairs', it was fun while it lasted, but the 'Carlos Tevez affair' has finally ended with a messy divorce and an out-of-court settlement. Isn't it always the way...
Rafa Benitez reckons he has found Manchester United's weakness. 'We knew that they are really good at playing penetrating passes. So we had to stop those passes and put their midfielders under pressure every time they were going to receive the ball," said Rafa. "Hoof it long", would
work equally well...
And Andrei Arshavin has thanked his wife Julia for giving him the "power" to shoot down Blackburn. If she can stick it in "dirty, scruffy London,"
for a few more weeks, Arsenal may even win something...
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KISS AND TELL
It's perhaps a good thing, in hindsight, that Manchester United were stopped from wearing that World Champions crest in Premier League games.
It's embarrassing enough to fall over on the dance floor with everyone watching. And even more embarrassing if you're dressed like John Travolta when your Taboo and lemonade hits the deck.
Even so, there was enough embarrassment to go around, even without the crest. You wonder, for example, what became of that 'Rafa's Cracking Up' banner spotted in the crowd. And you fear for the poor sap whose job it is to conduct Wayne Rooney's next pre-match interview – a chat guaranteed to be bland enough to earn Wazza an immediate seat on the MOTD sofa.
On the subject of interviews, we are now approaching a point where the thoughts of Alex Ferguson will be conveyed only through the medium of autobiography, roughly once every 10 years.
The BBC, of course, are long gone. The Sun have also been banned this year. And now Sky Sports are also getting the silent treatment.
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The problem, of course, with applying the silent treatment is that observers then have to guess why the silent treatment is being applied.
So we must assume, for the purposes of this blog, that this weekend's snub was provoked by Sky's scheduling, rather Max Rushden's ongoing dullness on Soccer AM.
You may think it doesn't matter. You may feel the football was exciting enough. The Bung however, cannot truly enjoy a weekend without the cherished ritual of 'Fergie' patting 'Shreevesy' on the head and saying 'Well done, Geoff' at the end of their regular tunnel talks. Priceless.
And were the fixtures really to blame? Would another 24 hours have been long enough to convince Nemanja Vidic that the ball wasn't made of solid steel? Wouldn't Fernando Torres have been even fresher given a day's more recovery?
But perhaps we're wrong. Perhaps Fergie's paranoia is well-founded. After all, doesn't the decidedly unhygienic lip smudge that Steven Gerrard left on the cameras at Old Trafford suggests he is rather more cosy with the TV companies?
If only we had the facts...
