Who’s telling porkies? Fergie or The Sun?

In the internet age where it is possible, and indeed inevitable, that news stories are spun out of mere scraps of truth and ‘embellished’ beyond all recognition, we’ve all grown accustomed to taking sporting scoops with a pinch of salt.

Nonetheless, you expect a national newspaper to display more journalistic rigour than say (no mea culpa) - a fan blog.

So, when The Sun broke the story on Friday about Sir Alex Ferguson confirming a bid for Berbatov, it lit the fuse f