FERGIE, CRICK AND A LOCAL RAG
Last updated : 13 September 2002 By Editor
The Times' take
The Prime Minister's favourite football manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has
famously rallied people to "unite against the press". Presumably this does not
include the Guardian-owned Manchester Evening News. The daily newspaper
meekly barred Michael Crick, author of The Boss: The Many Sides of Alex
Ferguson, from access to its vast press cuttings on its once
all-conquering local football hero.
Unless, of course, Ferguson gave prior approval to his highly critical
biographer. And the Editor of this fearless, campaigning newspaper? Paul
Horrocks, who was last week appointed to the Press Complaints Commission
Perhaps Tony Blair will be asking for cries of "Unite against Iraq" to be the next
quote from Fergie.
