Fergie frenzy hides the faults
“Surely,” I reckoned, “not even the UK’s absurdist footballing press pack can get more than three days’ copy out of this triviality?”
Well, as someone almost once said, no-one ever went broke underestimating the ridiculousness of your average British pundit. As I write on a Monday evening, the London papers are still devoting virtually full pages to it, most on the wholly erroneous basis that Ferge saying ‘sorry’ is somehow unprecedented. Utter tosh, of course. Ferguson has often conceded he was wrong — it’s just that he normally waits until his next book to do so, sometimes two or three years after the event.
