Posh panic has denied Darren Ferguson the chance he deserved at Peterborough

By David Anderson

Published 11:43 11/11/09

Darragh MacAnthony claimed when sacking Darren Ferguson that he did not want Peterborough to become the laughing stock of the Championship.

Well, if they weren't before, they certainly are now.

Sacking Ferguson is up there with the Sinclair C5 when it comes to great ideas of our time.

Forget who his dad is and just reflect on what Ferguson did in just under three years at London Road.

He won promotion to League One in his first season and then repeated the achievement last season by guiding Peterborough to the Championship.

MacAnthony gave one of the brightest young managerial talents in the game the boot because he got twitchy about being relegated.

He has clearly forgotten Peterborough's history - they are hardly Manchester United.

Posh have only ever spent two seasons in the second tier so relegation to League One would hardly have been the end of the world.

Ferguson deserved the chance to try to keep Posh up, but instead MacAnthony panicked.

Still, Ferguson is in good company and his dad hasn't done too badly since being given the boot by St Mirren in the mid-1970s.

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