Ferguson: I've been set up

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has claimed he was “targeted” by people wanting to engulf him in a sex scandal as South African police today probed allegations that he indecently assaulted a 21-year-old woman.

Ferguson last night insisted claims that he assaulted Nadia Abrahams while being driven back to his hotel in Cape Town after an evening at a jazz club were “untrue and entirely without foundation”.