Sir Alex to Speak with BBC After a 7 Year Absence

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Sir Alex once described BBC as "arrogant beyond belief" with an "inability to apologize". His hatred for the network stems from a 2004 Father and Son piece that BBC was doing on Sir Alex and his son Jason Ferguson; who is a key player agent for Elite Management. Sir Alex felt that his son was unfairly portrayed as a man who exploited his father's position and influence in order to benefit himself during the transfer window. Following the documentary airing on BBC three, Sir Alex refused to have anything to do with BBC (a 7 year hiatus).

Ferguson would later describe the documentary as "a whole lot of nonsense, all made-up stuff, brown paper bags and all that kind of carry-on". He went on, "It was a horrible attack on my son's honour and he should never have been accused of that. But it is such a huge organization that they will never apologize. They don't even care if you sue them or whatever, because they are so huge and have insurance. They carry on regardless and it's breathtaking".

Yesterday, one of the longest-running feuds in football seemingly ended as BBC and Manchester United released a statement explaining "Sir Alex Ferguson and the BBC have decided to put behind them the difficulties which led to Sir Alex feeling unable to appear on BBC programmes". Meaning Sir Alex will again appear on BBC's Match of the Day with Gary Lineker. This news came after an extremely overdue personal visit from BBC's director general Mark Thompson; where before Sir Alex hadn't received the apology that he demanded.

Sir Alex holds grudges like the best of them, so this news comes as a bit of a surprise as it took 7 years for the network to finally reach out to him.