It’s Ferguson who overstepped mark

Our columnist is baffled and disappointed by Alex Ferguson’s decision to air dirty linen in public

I was travelling back to Dublin to cover the Arsenal versus Borussia Dortmund match on TV on Tuesday evening, when I started hearing the first news reports about certain extracts from Alex Ferguson’s book. But until I had actually landed and read some of them in black and white, I couldn’t bring myself to believe it. I was genuinely shocked — why on earth was a living legend in the world of football even bothering to express such critical opinions on everyone from Roy Keane to Jordan Henderson?

The more I’ve read and heard about this astonishing book, the more disappointed I’ve become with a man I had always held in the highest regard for what he has achieved in the game. And I really would love to know the reasoning behind why he felt it necessary to publicise his very critical views of certain people and, even more alarming, reveal in public things that went on, or were said, in what should be the privacy of the dressing room.