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Sir Alex blasts Dalglish: Your handling of Suarez race row cost you Liverpool job
By CHRIS WHEELER
PUBLISHED: 18:13 EST, 19 July 2012 | UPDATED: 18:13 EST, 19 July 2012
Sir Alex Ferguson has re-ignited his rivalry with Kenny Dalglish by telling the former Liverpool boss that his handling of the Luiz Suarez race row cost him his job at Anfield.
Suarez, who was banned for eight games and fined £40,000 over the incident involving Patrice Evra last season, raked up the controversy earlier this week when he accused Manchester United of wielding too much political power in English football.
But Ferguson has hit back at the Uruguay striker and claimed that Dalglish's staunch support of his player - which included wearing a pro-Suarez T-shirt in front of the television cameras - helped convince Liverpool’s American owner John Henry to sack his manager in May.
Coming out swinging: Ferguson has launched an attack on Dalglish's handling of the Suarez affair
'I wasn’t surprised at Kenny leaving,' said Ferguson. 'I think that the Suarez incident ... John Henry has obviously looked at that and felt it wasn’t handled in the right way. It certainly wasn’t a nice thing to happen you know. I think that must have been part of it.'
Ferguson criticised Suarez for re-opening the controversy in an interview in Uruguay this week, and insisted that the Liverpool player was wrong to blame United for the punishment handed out by an independent regulatory commission.
The Old Trafford boss claimed that it was Liverpool’s decision to call on a linguistics expert to try and explain Suarez’s use of the word 'negro' towards Evra that proved their downfall.
On tour: The United squad are currently in South Africa
'I've seen he's gone back and talked about it,' added Ferguson. 'It's not going to go away if Suarez keeps on making headlines out of it.
'I don’t think that is anything to do with Manchester United. I think that was to do with Patrice Evra. But it wasn’t Evra’s contribution, it wasn’t Suarez’s contribution, it was the expert they called in to explain the cultural differences. He was the guy who killed Suarez.’
Ferguson also refuted Suarez’s claims that Evra was at fault for their failure to shake hands before the two teams met again at Old Trafford in February.
Flashpoints: Suarez and Evra clashed last season with damaging effect
He said: 'The handshake was disappointing. He came out and said Evra’s hand was low. There is no doubt Evra put his hand towards him. I think Evra expected him not to shake hands. Evra actually said that to the lads.
'He just felt that he wasn’t going to shake his hand. He was sort of embarrassed to put his hand there.
'It's Suarez, he’s the one who should be making the effort to do something about it.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz217EGQERm
PUBLISHED: 18:13 EST, 19 July 2012 | UPDATED: 18:13 EST, 19 July 2012
Sir Alex Ferguson has re-ignited his rivalry with Kenny Dalglish by telling the former Liverpool boss that his handling of the Luiz Suarez race row cost him his job at Anfield.
Suarez, who was banned for eight games and fined £40,000 over the incident involving Patrice Evra last season, raked up the controversy earlier this week when he accused Manchester United of wielding too much political power in English football.
But Ferguson has hit back at the Uruguay striker and claimed that Dalglish's staunch support of his player - which included wearing a pro-Suarez T-shirt in front of the television cameras - helped convince Liverpool’s American owner John Henry to sack his manager in May.
Coming out swinging: Ferguson has launched an attack on Dalglish's handling of the Suarez affair'I wasn’t surprised at Kenny leaving,' said Ferguson. 'I think that the Suarez incident ... John Henry has obviously looked at that and felt it wasn’t handled in the right way. It certainly wasn’t a nice thing to happen you know. I think that must have been part of it.'
Ferguson criticised Suarez for re-opening the controversy in an interview in Uruguay this week, and insisted that the Liverpool player was wrong to blame United for the punishment handed out by an independent regulatory commission.
The Old Trafford boss claimed that it was Liverpool’s decision to call on a linguistics expert to try and explain Suarez’s use of the word 'negro' towards Evra that proved their downfall.
On tour: The United squad are currently in South Africa'I've seen he's gone back and talked about it,' added Ferguson. 'It's not going to go away if Suarez keeps on making headlines out of it.
'I don’t think that is anything to do with Manchester United. I think that was to do with Patrice Evra. But it wasn’t Evra’s contribution, it wasn’t Suarez’s contribution, it was the expert they called in to explain the cultural differences. He was the guy who killed Suarez.’
Ferguson also refuted Suarez’s claims that Evra was at fault for their failure to shake hands before the two teams met again at Old Trafford in February.
Flashpoints: Suarez and Evra clashed last season with damaging effect He said: 'The handshake was disappointing. He came out and said Evra’s hand was low. There is no doubt Evra put his hand towards him. I think Evra expected him not to shake hands. Evra actually said that to the lads.
'He just felt that he wasn’t going to shake his hand. He was sort of embarrassed to put his hand there.
'It's Suarez, he’s the one who should be making the effort to do something about it.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz217EGQERm
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