Tetchy Fergie running out of places to hide

THEY can dodge the questions but there is no hiding from the increasingly troublesome answers for Manchester United.

Aside from a tetchy Champions League press conference in Valencia, Alex Ferguson has not spoken to the written press since the build-up to the Liverpool match in mid-September after being enraged at the way his post-match television interview was used.

After United stumbled to a fifth draw in eight Premier League matches, television and radio interviewers were informed they could not ask Ferguson why Wayne Rooney, who last week contradicted his manager’s claims that he had an ankle injury, was left on the bench for 71 minutes.