Rock on Top

A story I missed earlier, only saw it when I was round my parents' and saw the physical paper. Sir Alex named as the most influential man in sport in The Times. The write-up is not exactly glowing, but what can you expect?

Sir Alex Ferguson ... has been shaping our sporting lives for decades, to the extent that he is atop our summit, and the hard part is not in establishing where his power starts but where it ends.

It is a job best approached with caution, given that the old bully recently banned a journalist for describing him as the leader of a mob. And we all saw what Ferguson did recently to Rafael Benítez. The Liverpool manager described his United counterpart as above the law, a serial intimidator of officials and hell-bent on organising the fixture list to suit his own ends — the most powerful man in sport, in other words — and the Spaniard still has the bruises for saying what others only think.