Alex Ferguson on the Premiership, Sky TV and the Great Football Rip-Off

All the quotes below are from the 1992 book "Alex Ferguson - Six Years At United" by Alex Ferguson and David Meek.

"The Premier League is a piece of nonsense."

"Its introduction this season has done the reputation of the clubs no good whatsoever and it has in fact alienated a great many supporters."

"It would hardly behove the manager of a leading club to suggest that people both in and out of the game have been conned, but I can well imagine the ordinary fan in the street wondering".

"How the football people negotiating the contract did not have the savvy to know that once the agreement was signed the Sky people would fleece the fans, I will never know."

"The agreement sells supporters right down the river and hits hardest at the most vulnerable part of society, our old people".

"If I were to have a nightmare I'm sure it would feature an Orwellian scene of football being played entirely in some vast television studio without spectators, just people in their armchairs at home listening to canned cheers recorded in the dim and distant past at the Stretford End."