Soc: Ferguson tells Blatter to get his priorities right

AAP Sports News (Australia), October, 2005

AAP Sports News (Australia) 10-14-2005 Soc: Ferguson tells Blatter to get his priorities right By Pete Oliver MANCHESTER, England, Oct 14 Reuters - Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson believes FIFA president Sepp Blatter should concentrate on more important issues than the behaviour and handling of striker Wayne Rooney. Blatter, speaking in a BBC radio interview on Thursday, said Rooney should be called to order for his lapses of discipline and that Ferguson and England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson should take a harder line in dealing with the teenager. "I think they (FIFA) are quite happy to take up smaller issues, like talking about a player at Manchester United who is 19 years of age, rather than pursue the really important issues in the game at...

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