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September 12, 2007
Gotta love it
One of my guilty pleasures is watching the Premier League. It's one of the best soccer leagues in the world, and it has so many great story lines. To wit, a drunk assaulted Sir Alex Ferguson in a train station recently. He's the legendary manager of Manchester United, and this would be akin to somebody taking a run at Mike Krzyzewski, a similarly successful but loathed figure. I'm sure it's all something we've all wanted to do.
A 'fighting drunk' today admitted punching Sir Alex Ferguson in the groin and head butting a police community support officer.
Forty-three-year-old Kevin Reynolds pleaded guilty to assaulting the Manchester United manager outside a train station before attacking the officer and racially abusing him.
Reynolds appeared at City of London Magistrates Court and was warned he could be jailed when he is sentenced at a later date at London's Southwark Crown Court.
The attack took place on Monday shortly after 4pm when Sir Alex was waiting for his driver outside Euston Station in central London.
Reynolds, originally from Fife but now of no fixed abode, approached Sir Alex, who initially thought that the man staggering towards him was a beggar asking for money, the court heard.
Instead Reynolds struck Sir Alex in the groin area, leaving him doubled up in pain.
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Posted by oz115 at September 12, 2007 04:52 PM