Trial by Fergie

Manchester United are submitting a dossier to the Football Association demonstrating that Arsène Wenger had stockpiles of pea soup ready to be deployed as ballistic missiles, despite inspections of the Old Trafford dressing rooms by independent monitors. Even more damaging, Thierry Henry was only 45 minutes away from being sent off after repeatedly falling over Gabriel Heinze. While Alex Ferguson has claimed that last weekend's events link Arsenal unequivocally to the destruction of Wembley's twin towers, his critics maintain that Ferguson is deliberately isolationist, creating a climate of paranoia to further his power base amid economic difficulties at home.