Angry Fans
He casts his eye over your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football. You may agree with him or then again you may not. This week Football Writers bias; Media is bias against United with selection of team of the year; Rafa is right not to congratulate Fergie; Nice send off for Hiddink; The Great Lie; Hughes spent £133m on City failures; Wenger is annoyed with fans; Six titles for Mourinho in last eight years; Airlines ripping off United fans going to Rome; Kyle Lafferty’s bad behaviour; Tevez good but not for £32m.
The Letter of the Week goes to Dolan Ferguson, Carlow. Get in touch with your postal address and our magnificent prize will be winging its way to you before you know it.
LIAM, the decision of the Football Writers Association to award the Footballer of the Year award to Stephen Gerrard tells you all you need to know about the inherent bias in football journalism in England.
In the period between 1972 and 1990 Liverpool won 11 championships and in that period (as you might expect) ten of their players were awarded the Player of the Year award from the FWA. In the current era (from 1992 to date) United have replicated that achievement, also winning 11 titles. How many United players received the Football Writers' distinction? Five.
Manchester United are in the process of re-writing the record books this season and the hacks have chosen the badge-kisser from Anfield who has won precisely nothing (again) this year. When United people mention this bias they are accused of being paranoid. The records give the lie to that accusation.
'That's a fact' - as the truly paranoid might put it.
All over bar the whinging, eh? As it happens, I would probably have given my own vote to Wayne Rooney but it is a player, not a team, of the year award and Steven Gerrard, a legitimate claimant, has been magnificent again this season. Anyway, this column prides itself on its scrupulous impartiality so it's red cards all 'round for reds of both hues.
