Ferguson watched his old side labour to a 1-1 draw at Elland Road on Sunday and footage emerged of the 84-year-old getting abused by a fan in the home end

A Leeds United supporter has been labelled 'a disgrace' after he filmed himself abusing Sir Alex Ferguson at Elland Road.

The managerial icon was in Yorkshire on Sunday to watch his old team Manchester United play out a 1-1 draw with the Whites, with current Old Trafford boss Michael Carrick facing mounting pressure to keep his job.

And as the 84-year-old left his seat in the VIP box at Elland Road, a chuckling Leeds fan got Ferguson's attention before calling him a 'c***'.

The incident has sparked widespread uproar in football circles and pundit Simon Jordan and ex Burnley, Everton and Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche have now launched a stinging attack on the perpetrator.

Speaking on talkSPORT, Dyche said: "Well unfortunately about the modern world that it is, firstly we're going to have to speak about it, rightly so, because it's an absolute joke. It's a disgrace for me.

"But that sort of adds more power to it because then other people go and Google it, but I think it's fair to show our respect to the fact we're not having it. I'm not having it.

"It's gone too far people doing that. For one, I've got elderly parents. Just as a person, as a human being, why you'd do that.

"This is too far. Honestly I think it's a disgrace. I don't even know how people think that's funny, and yet somehow the world is like that now."

Former Crystal Palace chairman Jordan added: "I mean it's not something Alex wouldn't have heard before from rival fans. I mean he's a strong character, he'll take no notice of it. He's a statesman of the game.

"There is of course a massive rivalry between Man United and Leeds, but there is a line. To suggest that someone should say to him some silly little twerp in the stand, it's mindless.

"Leeds themselves will be disappointed and embarrassed by it, because they will recognise they're a significant football club that play a part in the Premier League that want their reputation to be of the highest order."

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