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'You are f****** idiots!' - why Sir Alex Ferguson stormed out of press conference in defence of 'f****** great' Manchester United signing

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"Be quick, I've only got a few minutes," Sir Alex Ferguson harked to a tight and tense press room at Carrington back in May 2002.

The Manchester United manager's relationship with the media was rarely affable, particularly at a time when press conferences were spiky and tense, confined to a claustrophobic media room and not streamed online to the masses.

Journalists were often scolded or banned from future attendance if they rubbed the Scot up the wrong way. Said journalists were on tenterhooks when coming together at United's training ground for the penultimate game of the 2001/02 campaign.

Arsenal were the visitors to Old Trafford that weekend, with Arsene Wenger's side knowing victory against their fiercest rivals would secure the title.

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