Sir Alex Ferguson began "co-operating" with the News of the World several years ago after the paper obtained the Manchester United manager's medical records, a former reporter at the title told the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
Matt Driscoll, who was a senior sports journalist, claimed that the paper used "blagging", or impersonating a third party, to secure the confidential information after receiving a tip that Ferguson might be suffering from ill health. He said the paper had agreed not to run a story after contacting Ferguson.
So in other words Sir Alex is basically being blackmailed? Journalists these days a bunch of fucking cunts!
man.. he's getting old.