Sir Alex Ferguson documentary | The Untold Stories

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when sir

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arrived from aberdeen in the autumn of 1986 manchester united was in decline, they had not won the league since 1967 and were second from bottom in the old first division

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set out to review all aspects of club life restore discipline to the dressing room eradicate the destructive drinking culture the players didn't really know much about him one player who did know was gordon strachan played with him at aberdeen and many of the United asked following what it was like and he laughed and said wow, you know it's going to be a great dinner change.

He put together the plays in the small gym on the cliff. He said I am not happy with this drinking culture. I'm hearing things in Manchester from people saying you've been discovered. I don't like what I hear. He is not a professional and there was some resistance to that change. Well, this is what it's always been. This is what it is like at all clubs and perhaps it had been, but this was not how Sir Alex Ferguson wanted it to be. He scared me to death. I played undefeated. I was afraid that one of his hair dryers would tell me that he didn't want it.

Letting him down, probably Liverpool was the worst when he kind of kicked me out of my house, he told me at half time that he was kicking me out of my house and putting me back into accommodation and that my girlfriend had moved from Birmingham and I had to return. at home and we had to split up and my dog ​​had to be sold my car had to be sold um and I had to go out and show him that I could play to execute his root and branch reform Sir Alex transformed the scouting network and The success of Youth setup United for the next 27 years will rely on local products.

I think Brian Carey put Brian Kearn in charge of youth in a local area and he got a lot more scouts and these Audis were a lot more active. come and tell people like me, maybe people like um paul wintz, maybe even dennis irwin to some extent, and all the players at that kind of time are, uh, these players, i.e. nikki butt, paul scholes, um gary neville, david beckham, we're going to be taking your places soon he believed in what was happening, you know, and he was proven right, yeah, I mean, sometimes, I mean, when we were playing reserve games, he was watching and after winning the game, he entered and saved the peace, but you always know, play, you know, the user seeks to play for the first team one stop from playing for the first team, he says it was a bad game, everyone would have to get better, he was there at night, you know? with the youth team players after being with the first team, you turn around, he is sitting on the bench next to you, of course the players look towards the bench and obviously they play harder, they play faster, they want to impress him , he was everywhere. that force of energy, ambition and drive lifted the whole club, everyone else was infected by that same kind of drive, Manchester united history and busby babes and it was all about youth and, really, that core of local players gave the game that gave them the spirit of Man United.

Yes, initially Sir Alex's reshuffle did not have the desired effect. It is widely reported that he nearly collapsed after a difficult start to his fourth season, but Manchester United's board kept him in 1993. United won. their first league title in 26 years, coupled with their league cup and fa cup winners' cup triumphs under

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, the heart of their success was ferguson's skillful management, his reputation as a fearsome dictator kept the players on their toes as his soft resolve earned their loyalty he knew how to give you a rolican you had to put his arms around yourself consolation you weren't that frequent but um he just had a unique way of getting his point across to steve bruce the Um Janet's wife was in the hospital she was having back surgery and we're playing we're playing so Brucy left his cell phone on during the game but it was on and we got to half time.

Things were not going well. This was at Old Trafford, so we sat in the dressing room. and steve's phone rings, we were all sitting there and me, we were all like that and i knew it wasn't me, i knew it wasn't dennis because dennis dennis had a phone, it was never on anyway, big pete immediately himself, as usual, it wasn't me, you know, and maybe his eyes went and, given the way he was, you could see everything quite a bit. You looked at Bruce and you could see it in Bruce's face and personality I was the one the foremen ran into I grabbed the phone I tried Steve Bruce Steve Bruce had to go try to tell him this is my wife tonight I don't care if your wife is in the hospital and just through the phone against the wall towards the trash can and i broke the phone when sir alex used to get on my back he used to make me play better we were playing clues and i got absolutely upset at half time e even being honest at the time I was thinking I thought it wasn't that bad, but we went out, we didn't end up winning a game, we came back and then one of the young girls had to come up to me and was like, um, you know. like when they told us to give you the right goal, they said to come and he said it would be fine now in 2008, Manchester United midfield dynamo Darren Fletcher was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a debilitating intestinal disease, terrified and ashamed of being able find it in the lord.

Alex Ferguson obviously had to experience a different science fiction during my illness and I have the utmost respect for him because he took football into the equation and then looked after me and made sure I looked after my close-knit family dominated the 90s winning 13 major titles with ferguson building two trophy winning teams, this regeneration process was not limited to just the players, he had the foresight to introduce forward thinking coaches to help execute his vision when i got the call from alex, as he was at the time . Derby County we went to his wonderful office, we sat down and he straight up asked me the only question of the interview, how do I keep my number one team?

I replied: Think, behave and train as if you were number two, and that hit the nail on the head and the next one. The question was when can it start? Sir Alex made up his mind and decided to double the pre-season training, so instead of leaving all the players lying on the sofas between the morning and afternoon sessions, we cleaned one of Carrington's rooms. I put in some products that were effectively lounges so that at least up to 12 or 15 players could go in there and that was mainly the first time that a conversation was had with a club like that or with anyone where we are. actually encourage athletes to take a nap that wonderful word of taking a controlled recovery period go to sleep between sessions and see if the levels went a little faster in the afternoon, but it was so early that people started calling at the door Sam Allardyce Bolton Arsene Wenger and Gary Lewin in Arsenal, the England team.

He was open to all the methodologies that you thought could help his players be the best they could be and I had an open book to work with. players all the time, so I went into the club to do rehab training with Roy Keane and we ended up producing boxing training, which was really important, so it was a different step, so we have your weights, you have your different you . I know abs stuff or whatever, but then you have the boxing training. Something new was happening all the time. I think it's gym-specific stuff and it's not necessarily just about lifting weights, it's all kinds of things.

You know certain movements and mobility of the legs. You know, we brought it in from the beginning and a lot of that was to, you know, prevent injuries. When Sir Alex Ferguson ended his brilliant career at Manchester United, he had won 49 trophies in the most successful managerial career Britain has ever known. His incomparable achievements are due in large part to his insatiable desire for success and his unique fashion sense. You see some of these managers groom themselves, so they're very image conscious, they're a little vain or you know. You're very conscious of the image, you know, whereas he was very conscious of the values ​​and the people about you, so I remember they won the European cup in Moscow, you know, and he cut it and John Terry slipped because It was wet and they had these Paul Smith suits and shoes especially for that thing and it was soaking the grass so they came in so these were pointy shoes, I probably didn't see them at all and when it got wet they curled up They're like Alibaba shoes, you know , so it became a big thing, having the banquet at the end and he's giving her a speech.

David Gill stood there, he's got a pair of white sneakers with his flash and I brought it from him, it's almost like Yeah, he doesn't give a damn. You know, it's just the people here, all these kind of families like that. At that stage, the grandfather, his whole family guilty of him, says: Yes, what does it matter? You know, I could do it with my slippers. he was a master at coming in at halftime when you were tying or losing and when you weren't expecting them to go mentally dead when you were expecting him to go away mentally he was calm and you went into his tactical boards and he identified one or two little things and that was usually the difference to go and win the game, so it's hard to explain because a lot of what he did was very simplistic, but other times the real genius came out, so he mixed it up and some of these team conversations before the big things.

Games where you know, you were standing on your neck and you came out with so much pride and passion and desire to do well for him and for yourself and to do well as part of the club that you know. that brought out the best of us on the big nights driving off the cliff to old trafford the day after they won the league and he was on the phone, you know, talking about a transfer and you're thinking he's not going to stop, you know, this guy won't stop for in a minute he's just when you move on to the next thing, he wants to find a whistle blown in that league or okay, you celebrate at night, but there's almost like an anticlimax: you've done all the work and like a kind of anti-climax. -climax and he went straight to the next thing, it was relentless, you know, you just wouldn't stop, you just won the problem, you keep the same players again, the motivation might not be there, you know, if you start signing some. plays well looking to get into the team, everyone just kicks it again Ferguson's win-at-all-costs mentality was instrumental in helping him regain his former greatness, but it was his ability to observe and understand the human psyche that truly defined his leadership that used. get there at seven in the morning and he'd be looking at the part of the car where everyone got in, but he'd also skip over the training photos to watch each player get out of the car and see what mood they were in, so he'd be watching all his players all the time, Ronaldo at the really difficult time during the first 18 months to two years, where the coach tried to toughen him up and when he held the ball too long and didn't put it into the box. and he was beating men two and three times and the end product of him wasn't quite there.

He learned the hard way, there's no doubt about that and they kicked him, but that was a way of telling them that if you do this, you're not helping the team and they're going to kick you in games, I think he'll be the first to tell you. that there was a difficult school at Manchester United at that time, we all experienced it, I experienced it and I think that was part of it. of what made him the best player in the world and he also had the desire to achieve things for alex ferguson, who he respected a lot and his teammates, i will tell you that i know ronaldo loved every moment of his time at manchester united, he was like a personal coach to everyone at the club, whether it was the goalkeeper, the tea lady, the secretaries, every player, he had a personal impact on them, he touched them personally, you know, just little things, even you know, he put a hot spoon on the back of the gardener's neck and you know at lunchtime and it's like, oh, what is this, but that gardener then goes off and tells all the guys in the office in the office. gardener's heart and tells his wife at home that if you don't have Fergie, do you know he does? today damn and it's like it was a personal touch and he had that personal touch with everyone that made him feel like a family he definitely got in the way a little bit uh not quite he still has fun, it's actually after he retired and he was in his golf One day and I approached him and said: Are you doing the boss? and he said no, no, he's not the boss anymore.

It's uh, it's Alex. I said, "Well, I definitely can't call you Alex, it's because you know it's not my nature and they still call him to go." for now because all the players have a lot of respect for him and uh, I'm more of a genius fighter, a winning genius, you