Michael Crick

Football’s Alastair Campbell

issue 21 September 2002

Michael Crick says that Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson is not a crook, but he is a liar and a bully

If he’d dithered for another day or two last winter, then Sir Alex would now be relaxing somewhere off the Azores or Madagascar, starting his retirement with the world cruise he’s always promised Cathy, his long-suffering wife.

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