Now Is The Time For An Iron Hand

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Not much of note today. Having criticised the quality of The Mirror's columnists via Twitter yesterday, I was most amused to see 2 new examples of their downright awfulness today, here, and here. They really aren't worth reading on any level. They are the type of thing I see come up all the time in my feed of The Mirror's Manchester United news, and which I generally ignore, but seeing as I criticized them yesterday, I thought these 2 would serve as further evidence. I'd advise against reading them however...
Gary Megson defends Sir Alex:

"Fergie couldn't have done any more," he said. "He gets hung out to dry because of who he is. He has apologised and then everyone criticises the apology.

"Alan Leighton seems to have a bee in his bonnet about the apology. I have seen him quoted as saying it was half-hearted. But you're dammed if you don't apologise and dammed if you do. If you don't apologise, you get slaughtered. If you do apologise, it's judged as half-hearted.

"What's he supposed to do? He's said something and then having had time to think about it, he's said `sorry.' End of story - move on."

Mark Clattenburg will referee the Bolton game, The Sun's report is interesting:

Mark Clattenburg - who has had explosive run-ins with Ferguson - takes charge of Bolton's visit to Old Trafford on Saturday.

A former top ref said last night the choice by the game's officiating board was an attempt to 'get' Fergie for blasting Alan Wiley's fitness.

The ex-FIFA ref said: "Clattenburg at Old Trafford? Brilliant. I'm sure they've done it on purpose to get at Ferguson over his treatment of Wiley and his pathetic 'apology'."

And one 11 year old news story finally breaks today. Shevchencko could have joined us, or Barcelona, but didnt...