Usually when I get a paper, or in this case The Sun, I head straight to the back page and get down to business with the sports. But I had to double-take at the front page of today's paper as the name Sir Alex Ferguson caught my eye; It must be good news if a segment of sport manages to hit page 1!
However, it read " I turned to Fergie as I considered sacking Brown" - a Tony Blair special. Now this really was weird, our ex-prime minister taking advice from a Premier League football manager about the future of one of his MPs!
I'm not a massive follower of politics, so I wasn't joining the people who were racing out to buy Tony Blair's memoirs, but I was amazed to see he had turned to a football manager in need of an important decision.
Blair saw Gordan Brown, his future successor, as a "problem player" in his team of politicians so he turned to the guy who was most famous for his major "hairdryer" treatment and handling of trouble makers, Ferguson - a staunch labour supporter, who advised Blair to give Brown the boot; he of course didn't take this advice.
Just imagine if he had done what the Manchester United boss had told him to - maybe it would have saved us English the embarrassment of a Scot taking the helm of the United Kingdom ?
But in all seriousness Brown seemed to have had everything under control while in charge, didn't he ? - again, my knowledge of politics is blurry so I best leave this question for you to decide.
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