Yeah Downing has been an extreme disappointment. For someone with all that Premiership and England experience and who is meant to be in the prime of his career he has not performed anywhere near to the standards that he should be.

As for Fergie, he knows what he's doing. He likely does not give the slightest of smurfs about what happened out there. He's a master of the media and he's using gamesmanship to unsettle the team he always acknowledges as his club's biggest rival. I salute the man because it has worked. But when you look at it objectively, failing to shake a man's hand is hardly on a level with, say, running up to someone in the crowd and kicking them in the head, and you didn't see him getting rid of Cantona.