Fergie under attack! Former Man United boss blasted for 'betraying' Moyes
Posted Friday, October 24, 2014 by Talksport.co.uk
Sir Alex Ferguson has been accused of ‘betraying’ David Moyes after breaking his silence on his fellow Scot’s disastrous Manchester United reign.
In an updated version of his book, My Autobiography, Ferguson has pointed the finger squarely at Moyes for the club’s struggles last season and rubbished suggestions he hand-picked his successor.
Ferguson has also insisted it is 'nonsense' to suggest that Moyes had inherited a team in decline and claimed the former Everton boss found the job too big to handle.
Those comments have drawn an angry response from Richard Keys, who feels Ferguson has twisted the truth and chosen to ‘bury’ his long-time friend to absolve himself of any blame.
The well connected sports presenter, who claims to have been in touch with Moyes to offer advice regularly throughout last season, told Hawskbee and Jacobs: “Fergie has betrayed him.
"It is wrong. I don’t think it was necessary at all but, worse than that, he has left himself down."
Keys felt it was hypocritical of Ferguson to release a tell-all book in 2013 following his retirement and he claims the updated edition only serves to do more damage to the 72-year-old’s reputation.
"I fail to understand why he [Ferguson] had to fly in the face of his own mantra, which was what goes on at the football club, stays at the football club, when he started spewing selective secrets in retirement,” he continued.
"I thought he belittled himself, left his reputation scarred and, I thought, he might have learned his lesson. Let’s remember he kicked out Jaap Stam for writing a book and spilling a few secrets. He obviously had strong views on keeping what went on at the club within the club until the opportunity came, for money I imagine, to tell people what he felt had really happened.
"I thought enough was enough, but I genuinely didn’t expect that he would then go and bury Moyesy.
"Of course the Glazers had to have a say [in Moyes’ appointment] but he would have told them ‘this is my view’ and, having made a decision about every football matter in the club over 27 years, they would have said, ‘OK, well we’ll back that’. Of course Alex Ferguson offered the view that David Moyes was the correct successor.
"He said he had no knowledge at all or hand in his sacking and we have to believe him, but I’m not sure that is the case.
"The job was too big for him, said Fergie. How will respected employers of David Moyes view that?
"Moyesy will want to go back in at the sort of level he was managing at. Is Fergie saying, 'be careful, he can't do it'.
"I think it is outrageous, it is wrong, it is wholly unnecessary, and it is cheap."
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