Ferguson escapes disciplinary action
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Sir Alex Ferguson will not face any disciplinary action over his remarks criticising referee Mark Clattenburg for sending off Darren Fletcher, the Football Association have confirmed.
The Manchester United midfielder was given his marching orders after picking up two yellow cards against Birmingham on Saturday and afterwards Ferguson appeared to imply that Clattenburg had been inconsistent this season - but the FA decided his remarks did not cross the boundary to allege bias or impute the official's integrity.
An FA spokesman confirmed: "No action will be taken in relation to Sir Alex Ferguson."
The decision will come as a relief to the United boss, who has a two-match suspended touchline ban hanging over him after he questioned Alan Wiley's fitness earlier this season.
After Fletcher's red card at Birmingham, Ferguson said he had been "watching Mark Clattenburg this season".
He added: "As far as I'm concerned, I've not seen a softer sending-off for a long time. It is ridiculous.
"That referee did the Arsenal-Tottenham game earlier in the season and you needed to hit someone with an axe before he booked anyone in that game."
"There were some wonderful and weird decisions here."
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Once again , he criticised n escape punishment .
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What will happened if score reads Birmingham 1 - Man Utd 2 .Will Fergie complaint ?
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well, fergie will still fuck that ref lol
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well tecnically he never "allege bias or impute the official's integrity"
He only say that guy was soft, not that he favour one side or had no integrity.
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Ya la , media caused all this stuff .
Relax .
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poolman, why you created so many threads on united and fergie, esp this is liverpool forum.
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Really ? Very common la for a forum to do tat ..... u first time in Liverpool Forum ?
MU thread good ma , a cooling effect for my out of confidence fans .
Something to cheer them up .
My news very exclusive .
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if they want to read united news, they can come united forum what. are you a voyeur
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Ya la , u are right also ...
But this news , bad and sad news for that forum , dun think they want to show that .