Absolutely no let-up in Fergies’ rule of fear

NO STITCHES, no apology. Absolutely no let-up in the rule of fear and fire which has categorised Sir Alex Ferguson’s reign at Old Trafford.

That was the defiant message from football's boot-kicking knight this afternoon as he attempted to draw a line under the "freakish" accident which left David Beckham nursing a graze above an eye.

So the teacup-hurling, table-banging, rants with which Ferguson has occasionally reduced grown men to gibbering wrecks, are likely to continue.