Sport 21-01-2005 Shut It, You Two! who: Arsene Wenger what: Is a "disgrace", says feuding Ferguson when: Saturday snippet: The Mirror says there is a "fragile peace" between top flight Premiership football managers Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger after "the feuding pair" were urged by football authorities and the police "to end their war of words". "Manchester United will face Arsenal at Highbury in the Premiership on Feb 1 and the commander of Islington police has warned the managers` spat could antagonise fans," reports Wednesday`s Telegraph. "Any activity in the build-up to the game which increases the intensity and hostility of the supporters is not responsible and should be stopped," says the Metropolitan Police`s borough commander, who is in charge of match-day security at Highbury, where 180 officers will be on duty for the game. "If there is intense rivalry between the two sets of fans, which there is, then anything which increases that is unhelpful." "Fergie started the row by calling Wenger a `disgrace` and claiming the Frenchman wanted to fight him after the October clash at Old Trafford," says The Sun. "The Gunners chief hit back by saying his arch-rival had `lost all sense of reality`." It seems Cdr Norman had taken note of comments made by the Arsenal manager. Wenger expressed dissatisfaction at the way the authorities judge managers and players for their conduct during a match but do nothing to criticise Sir Alex for what the Frenchman described as "to prepare already an explosive". "In England you have a good phrase," Wenger says, quoted in The Independent. "It is `bringing the game into disrepute`. But that is not only after the game, it is as well before a game." [... more]

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