He's at it again:

Sir(ly) Alex Ferguson turned the spotlight back on to referees after his Manchester United team had escaped with a point from a pulsating 1-1 draw with Carling Premiership new boys Ipswich at Portman Road.

The United boss, however, aimed a barbed comment in the direction of referee Jeff Winter who booked Beckham, Gary Neville and Dwight Yorke for dissent and also showed Jaap Stam a yellow card for a first-half foul.

Ferguson said: "It's a subject I don't really want to get into, but some of these referees nowadays are absolute prima donnas. They make problems for themselves."

Who the $*@k does he think he is?

-- Anonymous, August 22, 2000

Answers

Rattled you tho didn't it...a Newcastle fan worried obout what The Wizard says? Anyhow....only the other day Wenger and Houlier said the same. Tut tut!!

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2000

He doesn't even have the bottle to say it first, just jumps on the bandwagon, typical that is!

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2000

Is the ILF (aka Bagpuss) trying to make friends with Professor Yaffle and Goggle Eyes?

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2000

"It's a subject I don't really want to get into, but some of these referees nowadays are absolute prima donnas. They make problems for themselves."

LR, you didn't answer my question, "who the $*@k does he think he is"?

Also I don't remember the French duo calling the refs. "prima donnas" + Wenger and Houllier don't act like prima donnas, cf. Taggart, hence my pot ~ kettle analogy!

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2000

Come on Bud they all criticise them in one way or another. the Frenchies wouldn't call them Prima Donnas as that is a bit of a derogatory remark made by us Brits, but really mean softy foreign ponces. :0)

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2000

DB, it's the refs. whom Taggart called 'prima donnas', not the French managers!

;-)

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2000

"Also I don't remember the French duo calling the refs. "prima donnas", . "the Frenchies wouldn't call them (the Refs) Prima Donnas as that is a bit of a derogatory remark made by us Brits, but really mean softy foreign ponces. :0)"

Bit of a misunderstanding there Bud, what I was trying to say is that the Frenchies wouldn't use the same language as Bagpuss, but basically say the same thing in their own dislikeable way.

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2000