Mirror likens Fergie to North Korea's Dear Leader

In Sir Alex Ferguson's world, he is rarely wrong about anything. He's lambasted referees when decisions don't go his way while praising terrible ones as long as they give United a penalty or two. He's always ready for a post-match interview when United has collected all three points but nowhere in sight when the Devils lose. Yes, Sir "Double Standards" Ferguson he certainly is but when you've won as much as he has, you tend to think the world revolves around you.

And so Fergie's latest fight has taken him to another old nemesis -no, not Arsene Wenger - which is the media. With Wayne Rooney's slump getting worse each match, Fergie has had to come out and defend his star striker and has accused pressure from the media on the England's star's private life as the main culprit for the striker's barren run.

In the Scotsman's defence, he's probably somewhat correct about the negative effects the media can have on footballers. But blaming the media for Rooney's poor form is an exaggeration and an easy target. Perhaps we can brush his memory up and remind him that Rooney's poor form began in South Africa, long before any story of his alleged infidelities surfaced.

But this isn't Fergie's first outburst at the media. Last year, he suggested the majority of journalists and newspapers in England took great delight whenever United lose a match (how would he know if he's never there for the post-match conference). Then there's his ongoing feud with the BBC.

Anyways, the media, or the Mirror at least, has hit back at the Man Utd gaffer by suggesting he should quit the Old Trafford outfit and take over from Kim Jung Ill.


"He would revel in the North Korean us-against-the-world siege mentality and how he must often wish he could cut himself off like them.

"The biggest attraction of the job by far, apart from the temptation to nuke Anfield and Eastlands, would be the media - or lack of it - in the Asian country.

"There would be no pesky journalists to annoy him by reporting what he actually said in press conferences when he deems to have one and perhaps best of all, no BBC.

"Instead he would directly control the state-run media so that Wayne Rooney's problems would be conveyed to the public as a dastardly plot by agents from Liverpool FC to discredit the young hero of the Democratic People's Republic " - David Anderson, Mirror Football.

You can read the entire article here. If anything, the humour and comparisons to "Dear Leader" are funny enough to make diehard United fans laugh. Or maybe Fergie was right and the English press don't like Man Utd.