Basil Fawlty got hit with a moose; what’s Sir Alex’s excuse?

First, any blogger should exploit every possible opportunity to sneak in some Fawlty Towers’ brilliance. And, two, I’m so freakin’ tired of Alex Ferguson’s crap I can hardly see straight.

In case you didn’t hear, Sir Alex rose to rare heights of nincompoopery after his side crash landed in the Champions League quarterfinals. He reacted poorly to an ejection for one of his players – something that’s clearly against Sir Alex’s red-tinted interpretation of the laws of the game. Imagine! Ejecting a Man U man when there are 11 opponents who are perfectly capable of being ejected.

“Typical Germans,” he said, implying that Bayern players’ appeals made the red happen – never mind his own man’s carelessness.

What!!! Oh, no he di’n’t!

Yep, he did. He went there.

Which made me think of poor ol’ Basil Fawlty, who got conked on the head by a stuffed, mounted moose, and then lost all good sense and all sensitivity to the understandably delicate Germany condition.

Basil, even more punch drunk than usual because of a concussion, upset a party of visiting German tourists ...
Basil: “Don’t mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it. So it’s all forgotten now and let’s hear no more about it.

(Turning to the Germans, who are ordering dinner:) “So that’s two egg mayonnaises, a prawn Goebbels, a Herman Goering and four Colditz salads....no, wait a minute! ...I got confused because everyone keeps mentioning the war!”

German: “Will you stop mentioning the war?”
Basil: “You started it.”
German: “We did not start it.”
Basil: “Yes you did! You invaded Poland.”

Here’s the thing: Basil got hit in the head with a moose! So, we are left with only one conclusion regarding Wednesday’s outburst at Old Trafford, because Alex Ferguson can’t really be that dense.

Somewhere around the hallowed grounds of Manchester United, there’s a stuffed, mounted moose that fell on the manager’s head and knocked him silly.