Tense Fergie keeping own counsel

IT MIGHT have been the sight of Arsenal disappearing over the Premiership horizon, it might have been the defensive crisis created by Mikael Silvestre’s three-week absence with an ankle injury or it might have been the on-set of the Champions League.

Heaven forbid, it might even have been his racing row with John Magnier.

Whatever it was, Alex Ferguson is in a very strange mood ahead of tonight’s encounter with unbeaten Portuguese league leaders Porto.