Here, we look at the nastier side of our beautiful games - the bullies, vile characters and money-mad idiots who darken sport. Sir Alex Ferguson was a brilliant football manager, perhaps the greatest ever, even beyond his hero Jock Stein, of Celtic and Scotland legend. But if you were a twenty or thirty-year-old-something journalist, it was his way and no other way. How different the course of United in recent years might have been but for this, you can only wonder. And there was the England hooker Brian Moore, whose skills as an ersatz journalist Sale had questioned in print.

Source: Metro December 25, 2025 22:13 UTC