Alex: The Man Behind The Legend

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Manchester United subsequently won their ninth Premier League title but were denied a unique fourth double by Chelsea's Didier Drogba scoring a late goal in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium.

Ferguson was so impressed with Queiroz after their first meeting, he offered him the job "right away". Ferguson hired Archie Knox, his assistant at Aberdeen, in the same role at Manchester United in 1986. A shortage of goals and being held to draws by teams they had been expected to beat in the second half of the campaign had proved to be the undoing of a United side who had performed so well in the first half of the season. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.Though this one is being dumped and won't make much of a splash, because the filmmaker behind it isn't that good - his biggest claim to fame is the film Crash, which everyone seems to hate. This was enough for Manchester bookmaker Fred Done to pay out on punters who backed the champions retaining their title. That summer, there had been speculation that he would take over from Ron Atkinson at Manchester United, who had slumped to fourth in the English top flight after a ten-match winning start.

Ferguson's playing career began as an amateur with Queen's Park, where he made his debut as a striker, aged 16. In a televised outburst after his team's win against Leeds, Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan responded angrily to Ferguson's comments: "We're still fighting for this title, and he's got to go to Middlesbrough .

In 2008, The Guardian published an interview with Todd (then aged 87), who had sacked Ferguson many years earlier.