Rebecca Lowe, the ESPN correspondent who was responsible for bringing out the now (in)famous Fergie interview where he launched into Alan Wiley’s fitness of all things, brings out a fascinating account of the whole incident. According to Lowe, Sir Alex was all smiles as he made his way to the media crew, which is weird considering the fact that United were uncharacteristically poor on the night. If Rowe’s observations are not distorted, then it leaves no doubts about the cold-bloodedness of Sir Alex’s attack. Poor Mr. Wiley had to pay for United’s mediocrity on the field. Sir Alex, in a ploy to keep the media attention off his under-performing players, decided to shift the eye of the storm to an altogether different location. And going by the amount of news-reel that has already been consumed by this story, it was a ploy that was more than successful. [Keep Reading…]

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