Alex Ferguson is my favorite manager of all time because of what he had brought to Manchester United and to the soccer world. Raised in the tough Govan district of Glasgow, where his father was a shipyard worker, Alex Ferguson started his own working life as an apprentice toolmaker. Að sumu leyti var hún betri en ævisagan frá 2013 þar sem hún fer dýpra ofan í ýmislegt í mikilli einlægni en svo eru langir tæknilegir kaflar hérna um skoska boltann á áttunda og níunda áratugnum sem ég hafði kannski ekki alveg nógu mikla vitneskju um til að hafa gaman af.

Ferguson is the longest serving manager of Manchester United, overtaking Sir Matt Busby's record on 19 December 2010, eventually completing more than 26-and-a-half years as the club's manager. This mostly takes place in Manchester, England were all the soccer games were mostly played and were the historic moments had happened. Sir Alex tells his readers of how he maintained an iron grip on the dressing room, combined with a relentless hunger for success, and how he managed to remain unchallenged in English football for much of his tenure.was an outstanding year for Alex Ferguson—not only did he lead Manchester United to a unique and outstanding treble triumph, but he was also awarded the highest honour for his sporting achievements—a Knighthood from the Queen. Here's a test you can do, when was the last time you were given training on your job to do it better? In its construction and style the book sometimes feels rushed, as presumably it had to be, once Ferguson decided in December 2012 that he would retire the following summer.

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These included 13 championships in the Premier League, five cup victories in the Football Association (FA) Cup, and two Champions League titles. A break from my usual reading fayre, reading the first autobiography of the most successful manager of the modern football era, which was fascinating in many ways, if a little too drawn up by the last 100 pages or so.

It has been said that the values great managers like Jock Stein, Sir Matt Busby, Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley brought to their jobs in football were rooted in their mining background. A tour de force in the world of football, Alex Ferguson wrote this book for his fans, addressing personal feuds, triumphs and highlights of his life on the pitch. He wrote it on a card and stuck it up on the wall in front of my desk - " The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night . During this time, he was the winner of the country’s top league the Scottish Premier Division between 1980 and 1985.Anyone could use his ideas, lessons and thoughts in their lives, be it managing themselves or a huge team.