Sir Alex Ferguson Rocks

Sir Alex Ferguson

Manchester United’s 19th league title sees the club finally sur­pass his­tor­ical enemies Liv­er­pool as the hold­ers of the most Eng­lish league titles. The record break­ing league title also marks Manchester United supremo Sir Alex Ferguson’s 12th Premier League title and comes 25 years after the suc­cess hungry man­ager declared in pub­lic that he wanted to knock the all con­quer­ing Anfield­ers off their bloody perch.

As a player, Sir Alex Fer­guson appeared for Queens Park, St John­stone and Dun­ferm­line before he was sold to boy hood idols Glas­gow Rangers for a record break­ing trans­fer fee of £65,000 in the sum­mer of 1967. The con­sist­ent centre for­ward later played for Falkirk and finally Ayr United where a nig­gling injury forced him to fin­ish his pro­fes­sional play­ing career at the end of the 1973–74 sea­son. The Glaswe­gian star­ted his long and illus­tri­ous mana­gerial career at East Stirl­ing­shire before the work­ing class hero even­tu­ally decided to move on to St Mir­ren and then Aber­deen. While man­aging The Dons, the former shipyard appren­tice broke the Old Firm dom­in­ance of Scot­tish foot­ball win­ning three Scot­tish Premier League titles, the Scot­tish Cup four times and the Scot­tish League Cup twice. A legend in his own time, Sir Alex Fer­guson was appoin­ted man­ager at Old Traf­ford in Novem­ber 1986 and won his first league title with Manchester United in 1993.

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