The FA have requested a copy of Sir Alex Ferguson’s post-match interview with MUTV from Tuesday’s encounter with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n
Ferguson will learn by 4pm on Friday whether he will be charged with improper conduct for his attack on referee Martin Atkinson.<\/p>\n
Although the United manager’s comments on Sky Sports were critical of the official, it is the ones to his club’s own in-house station where the FA believe he may have crossed the line by raising a question about Atkinson’s integrity.<\/p>\n
The FA have no power to order MUTV to hand over a copy of the interview but feel it would be in Ferguson’s best interests as it can often bring comments into context that look harsh on the printed page.<\/p>\n
It does, however, raise the prospect of Ferguson ending up getting a touchline ban thanks to evidence provided by his own club.<\/p>\n
Although the United boss might have kept his counsel on Wednesday and reflected on the changing fortunes of a game that should left him playing with just 10 men at Wigan three days earlier, Ferguson opted to let fly with both barrels following a loss to Frank Lampard’s controversial penalty.<\/p>\n
Ferguson labelled that decision, for Chris Smalling’s foul on Yuri Zhirkov “soft”.<\/p>\n
It was the failure to send David Luiz off for a clear trip on Wayne Rooney after the Brazilian had already been booked that really annoyed the Scot.<\/p>\n
“You want a fair referee, or a strong referee anyway – and we didn’t get that,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I must say, when I saw who the referee was I feared it. I feared the worst.”<\/p>\n
Given the United boss already has the remaining two matches of a four-game touchline ban hanging over him following scathing comments about Alan Wiley’s fitness last season, a further spell in the stands appears inevitable if misconduct is proved.<\/p>\n
It will not come into effect before Sunday’s trip to Liverpool though as a “non-standard” case such as a manager’s media comments is not heard with the rapidity of a normal case under the FA’s fast-track disciplinary system, which means it is likely to be next week before any ban could be imposed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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