We can say what we like about Fergie – and the Football Association can do with him what it will.
It might not be quite able to have him walk a plank suspended over the Manchester Ship Canal. Certainly, though, it can rebuke him and banish him to the stands.
But however the FA dresses it up, and however much we assail the Manchester United manager with charges of inveterately sore losing, there is still one important question to answer.
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