Sir Alex Ferguson has been banned from the touchline for five matches and fined £30,000 by the FA.
The FA aren't fit to lace his boots. What has the FA ever achieved? What has Sir Alex Ferguson achieved?
Sir Alex is passionate about football. So are football fans. It's a game of passion.
Referees have a difficult job, so difficult that they sometimes make mistakes.
If the FA don't organise some way for referees' mistakes to be put right; if the FA simply say obey the referee and shut up, they will get managers shouting their mouths off. And if their only response to that is to ban and fine the giants of the game, they lose any remaining respect from the people who play and watch football.
The FA should do the job is is there to do - organise the game properly.
John McEnroe used to be censured for disputing line calls. Now, tennis players simply ask for Hawkeye to demonstrate whether the ball was in our out. What is the FA doing about using technology to demonstrate whether a player is offside, or whether a ball has crossed the goal line? Nothing. All they say is obey the ref and shut up.
The FA should not fine Sir Alex. They should listen to him and work out how to stop him moaning by making the game demonstrably more fair.
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