When Sir Alex Ferguson was the manager, he tolerated no disrespect or attack on his players from pundits and the media.
The same ex players that Fergie protected for years are all over the media putting pressure on players and managers every day.
This nonsense that Scholes and the other ex players are doing with Amorim and our players — if Ferguson was the manager, he would have banned them from coming to the club as pundits.
1. Ferguson refused to talk to the BBC for 7 years because of a documentary they published about his son. From the 2004-2005 season to the 2010-2011 season.
That was what led the Premier League to make a rule that managers must speak to major broadcasters and rights holders or be fined.
Ferguson still refused to speak to them despite the rules and the club backed him by saying they would pay any fines involved.
The then Director-General of the BBC had to arrange a personal peace meeting with Ferguson after 7 years to bury the hatchet.
2. When the media were criticising Veron back in 2002, Ferguson had had enough and in a press conference in the training ground, he told them: “Veron is a fing great player and you’re all fing idiots.” He stormed off the press conference and ordered all of them to get out.
This nonsense that Scholes and the other ex players are doing with Amorim and our players — if Ferguson was the manager, he would have banned them from coming to the club as pundits.
3. In 2011, Ferguson banned Sky News from his press conferences for asking a question he didn’t like about Giggs.
Giggs was in the middle of a privacy case then after news came out that he had had an affair with Imogen Thomas.
Even though a judge signed an injunction preventing the media from publishing the allegations, they still did and it was all over Twitter.
So when the Sky writer asked Ferguson about Giggs, he responded well but then was overheard telling the media officer to ban the guy.
4. In 2007, Geoff Reeves from Sky Sports was interviewing Ronaldo after a match against Middlesbrough.
Ronaldo had won a penalty in the match and Reeves asked him if he dived.
Ferguson was watching the interview on a monitor in the dressing room and felt the journalist was trying to trap a young player like Ronaldo who was still struggling with English as a second language.
He stormed out of the dressing room and confronted the guy, shouting: “You and your fing questions, you’re fing bang out of order. The boy hardly speaks English, you’re f***ing bang out of order!”
Reeves stood his ground too and (from his own account) told Ferguson: “Don’t talk to me like that, I’m not one of your daft young players.”
That got Fergie angry and he tried to physically attack the guy. But he was held back and dragged off by a press officer as he shouted: “F*** off, you’re barred!”
He banned Geoff Reeves from interviewing him for a while while Queroz handled the Sky Sports interviews.
Reeves eventually had to send an email to Ferguson to apologise, saying he re-watched the interview and he agreed he was too aggressive with Ronaldo.
Ferguson didn’t respond to the mail, but a few weeks later, the ban was lifted.
5. He even froze out a presenter from Man Utd’s own MUTV from his press conferences in 2011 because the presenter said he’d like to see Man Utd play 4-4-2 instead of 4-5-1 in a match that year.
Ferguson told him: “I pick the team, not you.” Then banned him from attending his press conferences or interviewing him.
In fact, if you leaked transfer news about Man Utd before Ferguson himself announced it, you got banned.
The man ran the club like the military. You mess around, you find out.
That's why it's so jarring that the same ex players Ferguson went to war to protect will so carelessly disrespect manager after manager and player after player since Ferguson retired.
If they’re not criticising the managers’ selections and signings, they are trying to dictate who the manager plays or what formation he uses.
If ex players had done that to all of them the way they do these players or told them they should have a guaranteed spot because of one good season, would they have lasted?
Crazier still: Scholes — the one dragging Amorim about Mainoo — resigned at Oldham Athletic after just 7 games.
He won just 1 of those 7 games.
He resigned via WhatsApp saying the owner was trying to dictate who he plays.
The club had to drag him to court for quitting unprofessionally and he was asked to pay 5 figures in damages.
The same Scholes that quit after just 7 games with 1 win because they wanted to dictate who he plays is out here dragging Amorim and trying to dictate who he plays.
I can’t wait for the day Amorim goes ballistic on them.