Sir Alex Ferguson refused to answer a question on the Alan Wiley situation at a press conference ahead of Wednesday night's Champions League Group B tie against CSKA Moscow.
The Manchester United manager faced the media for the first time since being charged with improper conduct by the Football Association for allegedly questioning Wiley's fitness.
When he was asked to comment on the charge, the Scot said: "Silly question gets no answer. I'm not answering it. We're at a press conference for a game on Wednesday. We're here to talk about that."
At that point Ferguson decided to end the press conference, which had already run for 22 minutes, and left the room.
Ferguson caused a media storm with his remarks about Wiley after his side's 2-2 Barclays Premier League draw against Sunderland on October 3.
United have travelled to Moscow without a number of key players in Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Darren Fletcher, Patrice Evra and Park Ji-Sung.
Evra will be fit for Sunday's trip to Liverpool and Ferguson is also hopeful Rooney, Giggs and Fletcher will return.
Ferguson said: "Evra just had a little problem and we decided to leave him because we are quite well covered. I am hoping by Sunday Rooney, Fletcher and Giggs will be fit."
Rooney has been troubled by a calf injury since England's trip to Ukraine 11 days ago while Fletcher was also hurt on international duty.
Giggs and Evra suffered minor knocks in the draw against Bolton on Saturday. Park has a knee injury that is likely to sideline him for two weeks.
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BELEIVE ME RAFA IS 100 TIMES BETTER THAN ALEX .MU FANS WRITING HERE TO HELP THEM TO FORGET WHAT THEY SUFFERED SEVERELY IN THE HAND RAFA LAST MARCH. IT IS NIGHTMARE FOR THEM, EVEN MAYBE HUMILIATION. BUT THE WORSE IS COMING NOW. THIS WEEKEND, LIVERPOOL GOING TO SEND THEM PACKED WITH MINIMUM 3-0 AND AQUAILANI GOING 2 GOALS. THIS IS GUARANTEED
alex ferguson took five years to win any trophy for MU, but then these idiots say nothing about him. Rafa already win 3 trophies within 5 years, CL/FA/super cup and these idiots says he is not good. IF by these measure alone, RAFA is 10 times better than alex ferguson.
invitation
Liverpool Football Club wish to invite all regular Gob sh@te scousers to their end of year party this will take place just before all our so called professional layabout sicknotes ect have their own christmas drunken loutish bash
where are all the loudmouth scousers tonight, not much to say today.
Tony.. how does that prove that alex fergeson is buying the refs?
Proof that Sir Old Fogey pays referees to win him matches for United! Case CLOSED!
as long man utd keep winning matches and not suffer lost streak(like u know who) its ok by me...
hahahahaa
NO2 THICK MICK
YOUR RIGHT MATE I AGREE WITH YOU...............I'D MUCH RATHER HAVE RAFA AS MANAGER OF UNITED THAN FERGIE !
11 Premier League titles, 2 European cups and other lesser trophies in very recent history. Carry on throwing the mud all you saddoes and United will continue being the best with the best manager in British and European football history - ever.
sad man u twits - not even aware that all english football hates you because your managers a cheat, tevez was an illegal player, ferdinand is useless, best players left, yet you bang on about how great you are. like the liverpool, you lot are run by blokes who think you fans are mugs - keep it up, they love you lining their american pockets. yank lovers the pair of you(and ignorant northern monkeys also)
#5 - when was that then?
what a load of rubbish, soon no one will be able to open their mouth and talk about anything...who the hell do these refs think they are...god!!!
hey funky, when did united draw with bolton then??? MUG
aengusdeburca........What worries me is you see a photograph of a baby who may well be the posters child and you immediately think of child abuse, hinting at the posters involvement . Are you aware that forming opinions with no basis in known facts is the start of bigotry. Is there anything in your own childhood or indeed adulthood (I use the term loosely) which triggers such thoughts. Grow up ,child abuse is no laughing matter.
michael you are a very sad man but what really worries me is that you have a picture of a little boy next to your name. Should I be reporting abuse???
Where are all the gloating Scouser's?
Where are you Michael?
Where are you FoeyP?
Where are you KOP MANIA?
Where was that song you sing at Anfield? Didn't hear that tonight. You know the one, it's about you'll be walking around in a group or something. Ooooeer, it's all gone very quiet! Suddenly you've all stopped gloating about how great you are and how you are going to win everything.
NOT GLOATING NOW SCOUSER'S ARE YOU! Yak! yak! yak!
fackin goof liverpool will beat him this weekend and they may lose tomorrow
gunners rooooooooooooooool
so long chumps
he wasnt so cocky after the draw with bolton
No ethics?! He was at the press conference for 22 minutes! Thats pretty good going for someone with no ethics. I love all the people who slate SAF all the time even though the vast majority of Premer League managers seem to respect and admire him. It's very rare that you hear a manager other than Rafa or Arsene actually talk badly about him and even then that is usually heat of the moment stuff. There is no denying he is the greatest manager that the Premier League has seen and he will be held in the highest esteem for many years to come.
When did man u draw with bolton? Do you smoke weed? Know your facts
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