Sir Alex Ferguson blasts FA for vouchsafing Liverpools Steven Gerrard off the offshoot

By Mark Ogden 1030PM GMT nineteen March 2010

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Liverpool captain Gerrard is free to face Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday after avoiding a cessation for aroused control following his strife with Brown during the 4-1 Anfield feat opposite Portsmouth.

With arbitrate Stuart Attwell insisting he had witnessed the incident, as a result his preference to endowment a free-kick to Portsmouth, the FA"s disciplinary section was incompetent to take serve movement opposite Gerrard.

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Ferguson stays indignant at the FA"s preference to postpone Rio Ferdinand for 4 games progressing this deteriorate following an off-the-ball situation with Hull City"s Craig Fagan, generally with Liverpool"s Javier Mascherano evading cessation for a probably matching strife with Leeds brazen Jermaine Beckford in September.

The FA has cited key differences in between the cases, with referees Attwell and Alan Wiley claiming they had seen the Liverpool incidents and Steve Bennett carrying to examination the Ferdinand situation on radio after blank the strife during the game.

But Ferguson, who marked down the FA"s correspondence section "dysfunctional", claims the Gerrard box supports his claims that Liverpool are "lucky" with disciplinary matters.

Ferguson pronounced "I didn"t design him [Gerrard] to be charged, simply since it is a dysfunctional section at the FA. I don"t think they know what they are doing. There is no consistency, so you don"t design to get any consistency. But I"m not bothered. They can do what they wish down there, it"s funny at times.

"But I positively think that, if it was a Manchester United player, he would have been done, as was the box with Rio Ferdinand.

"They [Liverpool] do all right. They are propitious similar to that. Maybe one day we will get lucky."

Despite Ferguson"s comments, the FA certified secretly last night that they would not be looking an reason from the United physical education instructor for clearly doubt the firmness of the disciplinary panel.

Ferguson insists, though, that the FA should shake up up the correspondence section by branch to former managers for help.

He pronounced "There are about twenty surplus managers around who have had a great experience of the game, have great believe and have played the game. They could get involved.

"You could ask each physical education instructor in the joining each week and they will discuss it you about inconsistency.

"So thus I consternation if it"s value exploring the managers who don"t have a pursuit at the impulse receiving over that department. We could have may be a physique of 4 sitting each Sunday, assessing the TV issues of the weekend."

United face Liverpool aiming to finish a run of 3 unbroken defeats opposite their foes from the alternative finish of the East Lancs Road.

Last season"s 4-1 humbling at Old Trafford roughly cost United to the Premier League title, but Liverpool have unsuccessful to set up on their form from the run-in twelve months ago, with Ferguson suggesting Rafael Benitez"s group appearance last year.

He pronounced "Their plea last year was patently championship form but you infrequently rise with a sold group and it"s formidable to do again.

"They had an well-developed season, but I thought it would be formidable to grasp that again.

"Everyone approaching Liverpool to be improved this season, but they are not and the plea for them is to get that fourth spot."

Ferguson, who insists United are driven on by the awaiting of apropos the initial group to win 4 unbroken titles, has welcomed the lapse to movement of Owen Hargreaves in the reserves, but he warned the twenty-nine year-old to put bar prior to country.

Ferguson pronounced "There is zero wrong with articulate about the World Cup, but he should be concentrating on United, and he will do that."