Fergie disses Lil' Wayne

You might never have thought it would be possible to construct the trivia question "What do Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and loony Canadian hack Mark Steyn have in common?" -- but it is, and the answer is that they both bizarrely slammed the character of the people of Liverpool.

By coincidence we had mentioned Man Utd's talented but immature striker Wayne Rooney just a couple of posts ago -- sent off last week for mocking the referee, but then appearing, unchastened, on stage as a honourary member of 50 Cent's G-Unit posse on Thursday. So Ferguson apparently offered a supporters' club meeting (valet parking available) his interpretation of Wayne's erratic behavior:

in Tuesday's Daily Mirror [Ferguson was reported] to have told a supporters' club meeting: "Rooney is from Liverpool and everyone from that city has a chip on their shoulder, so if an injustice is done to him on the pitch, of course he is going to react."

which weirdly fits with our selection of 50 cent lyrics describing the feelings of the urban lad who quickly achieves stardom but still has people sniping at him. But anyway -- Steyn. This was his bag too, after the killing of hostage Ken Bigley in Iraq:

THE QUALITY OF MERSEY... the entire city of Liverpool going into a week of Dianysian emotional masturbation over some deceased prodigal son with no inclination to return whom none of the massed ranks of weeping Scousers ...

There've been various bizarre 'Wars On X' over the last few years, but the War on Liverpool is surely the strangest.