Check out the pageviews before and after Alex Ferguson’s announcement that he’s retiring:

Before:

And after….

Pageviews of Alex Ferguson’s wikipedia page dwarfs pageviews in previous day.

What about Moyes?

I have a suspicion that some radio stations & bookies may have been made aware of the news before hand – why else would Moyes receive some spikes a few days before the big news release?

Interesting.