Sam Wallace in the Independent:
‘Even after more than 30 years in football management, Sir Alex Ferguson must have been surprised by how simple it was to accomplish. A provocative interview in The Independent, defeat for Arsenal at Bolton and suddenly the manager who has faced down Ferguson for more than seven years was in a serious state of disarray. Arsène Wenger has rarely looked so rattled as he did on Saturday.
‘The psychological tricks that we like to call his "mind games" have become such a feature of Ferguson's season that now we half expect them any time after Christmas. This time, though, the Manchester United manager pulled out all the stops. Glenn Moore's interview with him in The Independent on Saturday was the most lurid, detailed account yet of the post-match food-throwing during Arsenal's visit to Old Trafford on 24 October. And the effect of those disclosures on Wenger will be a cause for celebration for Ferguson.
‘The remarkable conclusion we can take from a weekend of bitter exchanges between the two men is that yes, extraordinarily, Ferguson still has the power to make Wenger seethe despite plenty of evidence that the Frenchman had become immune to the barbs’