Liverpool were ridiculous in handling Suarez racial row - Sir Alex Ferguson

Liverpool’s Luis Suárez (L) was given a 8-match ban for his racial remarks aimed at Manchester United’s Patrice Evra

In his autobiography, Sir Alex Ferguson has been critical of Liverpool for backing Luis Suarez in the racial row with Patrice Evra in 2011.

Ferguson says: “Liverpool wore those T-shirts supporting Suarez, which I thought was the most ridiculous thing for a club of Liverpool’s stature.

“I think Kenny was falling back on the chip on the shoulder. The problem I felt was there was no Peter Robinson at Liverpool. He would never have allowed the situation to be handled like it was.

“The young directors there idolised Kenny and there was no-one to say: ‘Hey, behave yourself, this is out of order, this is Liverpool Football Club.”

In 2011, Evra accused Suarez of making racist remarks against him, while waiting for a corner to be delivered in a match between both their teams.

According to the Mirror, comparing the ban that Suarez received to the one that was dished out to Eric Cantona in 1995, the Scot has written: “I keep going back to (Cantona) – the FA had done us that day. We would never allow that to happen now.

“I would never have listened to them in the first place saying that if you make your punishment we’ll be happy, and we did that by giving him a four-month ban and then they turned round two or three days (later, and said) ‘Right, we’re charging him’. We would never allow that to happen again.”