{"id":467,"date":"2007-07-12T21:58:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/technology\/manchester-united-manager-alex-ferguson-bans-facebook\/"},"modified":"2010-07-30T22:32:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T22:32:55","slug":"manchester-united-manager-alex-ferguson-bans-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/technology\/manchester-united-manager-alex-ferguson-bans-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United Manager Alex Ferguson Bans Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/fergei.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>The English Football Premiership Club Manchester United&#8217;s boss Sir Alex Ferguson has forbidden his young players to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/lifestyle\/social-networking-websites\/\">Social Networking websites<\/a> especially Facebook in an effort to protect them from want-to-be WAGS. <\/p>\n<p>A number of young stars \u00e2\u20ac\u201c including England&#8217;s Kieran Richardson cousin of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/entertainment\/uk-non-celebrity-big-brother-kicks-off\/\">Big Brother 8 UK<\/a> housemate Charley Uchea &#8211; at Old Trafford have set up sites on social networks like Facebook but have been ordered to go offline.  <\/p>\n<p>Ferguson is worried they will be stalked by girls and get themselves into trouble with revealing photos or wall messages.  <\/p>\n<p>Fergei&nbsp;felt a few of the players could get themselves into trouble on those websites.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He trusts them but didn&#8217;t want them to run the risk of putting themselves in an awkward position by saying the wrong thing.&#8217;  <\/p>\n<p>More senior players, like Rio Ferdinand, who already have professional websites, will escape the ban. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English Football Premiership Club Manchester United&#8217;s boss Sir Alex Ferguson has forbidden his young players to use Social Networking websites especially Facebook in an effort to protect them from want-to-be WAGS. A number of young stars \u00e2\u20ac\u201c including England&#8217;s Kieran Richardson cousin of Big Brother 8 UK housemate Charley Uchea &#8211; at Old Trafford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,11],"tags":[520],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-internet","category-technology","tag-football"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3vNl0-7x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}