Sir Alex Ferguson has labelled Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew a hypocrite, following Manchester United's incident-filled 4-3 win over the Magpies last Saturday.
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Pardew called for the Football Association to ban Ferguson after the Scot had confronted the match officials for allowing a Jonny Evans own goal to stand.
Referee Mike Dean had taken his time in awarding the goal, with a question mark hanging over its legitimacy due to Papiss Cisse having been in an offside position. Eventually it was decided that the Senegal striker was not interfering with play.
This angered the Red Devils boss, who confronted Dean as well as linesman Jake Collin and fourth official Neil Swarbrick when the teams came out for the second half.
Pardew subsequently went on record as saying that Ferguson should be punished for the incident, but this possibility was ruled out because Dean omitted the incident from his post match report.
Ferguson, however, is not taking Pardew's comments lying down and hit back at the Magpies boss in a stinging fashion.
"Alan Pardew is the worst for haranguing referees. His whole staff [do it] every game," Ferguson said.
"I wasn't abusive of the referee - some managers push the linesman and make a joke of it. I'm not making a joke of it. I think [the goal] should've been disallowed, I really do," Ferguson said.
"[Pardew] shoves the referee and makes a joke of it, and he's got the cheek to criticise - it's unbelievable. He forgets the help I gave him by the way.
"The press have had a field day out of it. They have addressed every possible avenue. The only one they have left out is Barack Obama. He is too busy.
"That is unfortunate. I carry that because I am the manager of the most famous club in the world. I am not like Newcastle, a wee club in the north east."
Pardew served a two-match ban and was fined £20,000 by the FA for pushing fourth official Peter Kirkup during Newcastle's 2-1 win over Tottenham on 18 August.
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