Overview

The true biography of Sir Alex Ferguson has yet to be written. Until now. lex Ferguson is the most fascinating and controversial figure in football today. He is also the most successful. His twenty-five-year tenure of the Manchester United dugout has seen him win everything there is to be won in football, many times over. His reign as manager has led to the rise of Manchester United to becomethe biggest football club in the world. his book, written by the award-winning and critically acclaimed Patrick Barclay, will fill in the gaps left by the Ferguson's own book, Managing My Life (1999). Everyone who bought that book will want Barclay s comprehensive, objective analysis of Ferguson, the good and the bad, and the occasionally ugly and it will also appeal hugely to those outside the Manchester United extended family for whom Ferguson has often acted as a red rag. aving known Ferguson for a quarter of a century, Barclay believes him to be generous-spirited as well as ruthless and relentlessly competitive; in such an almost larger-than-life character, there is room for countless facets. And it is these facets that Barclay seeks to explore and explain. eaving no stone unturned,

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Thoroughness of research, richness of detail and proper celebration of achievement are never allowed to occlude the author's unsentimental view of his compatriot. -- Guardian Wonderful . . . captures the contradictions and battery-acid sourness of this complex personality just as eloquently as it elucidates his genius. -- Irish Independent

Wonderful . . . captures the contradictions and battery-acid sourness of this complex personality just as eloquently as it elucidates his genius. -- Irish Independent

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Patrick Barclay is Chief Football Commentator for The Times and one of the most respected journalists in the business. During a career spanning eight World Cups he has been the chief football writer for each of the four quality newspaper groups in England- The Times, Guardian-Observer, Telegraph, and Independent. His first book, Mourinho- Anatomy of a Winner was published to acclaim in 2005.

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