Roddy B wrote:
Indeed, at the end of the day, all that matters is Fergie's image. Not what Rio thinks, not what Rio believes, but Fergie being a little bit embarrassed, even though nobody on earth would have mentioned Fergie in the whole thing. Fergie wouldn't have a clue what Rio thinks, he's just a*sed about his image, just like the rest of football.
I don't think Fergie's image is all that important to him. The fact he's stuck two fingers up to the BBC for so long, the fact that he created pretty big problems at his club over the ownership of the horse show that he can be pig headed at a cost of his image.
Fergie hasn't really come out well in this. It was pretty dumb for him to nail his colours to all MU players wearing the shirt when it seemed more then likely that Ferdinand wouldn't be wearing it. And now that Ferdinand has clearly gone against him, he's caved pretty quick because he needs him in the short term.
Personally I think Fergie just finds the whole Jason Roberts situation a bit weird. He's a nothing footballer who practically no one would even give a second thought to, yet he's somehow managed to get a gig on 6-0-6 and MotD even though he's still "trying" to play.
Roberts is castigating KIO for not doing enough, even though the ban was clearly not anything to do with them. But the biggest problem for Roberts is that when John Terry was found not guilty in the court case he wrote a piece for the Daily Mail saying that everyone should move on and the case was closed. Of course now that Terry has been pursued even further it's not good enough for him, but that's just typical pundit BS. He said that the process should have ended after the court case, but let's just ignore that and pretend that he's been pushing for a huge ban from the start.
I don't think Fergie's image is that much of a preoccupation for him. But I think that's partly because he's got so many willing acolytes in the media willing to talk for him without prompting. Last week one of their young players just wrecked his brand new Range Rover on the first day he'd got the keys. The pr1ck tested over the drink drive limit. What was the press response? "OOOOOhhhhh, he's going to be in trouble with Fergie's famous hairdryer."
