Fergie in the dark

MANCHESTER UNITED manager Alex Ferguson believes he is being kept in the dark by the FA over Rio Ferdinand’s appeal against an eight-month ban for missing a drugs test.

Ferguson said he has heard no news from the FA on when the appeal from the Manchester United and England defender, who has already spent two months on the sidelines, will be heard.

“I don’t know when the appeal is, but we are almost in March now,” Ferguson said.