Bloody Hell!, The Biography of Alex Ferguson

298 Pages·2016·1.3 MB·English

by  Barclay Patrick

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FOOTBALL – BLOODY HELL!The Biography of Alex FergusonPatrick
BarclayYellow Jersey PressLONDON
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Contents
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT
Among the Idiots
A Hero and an Inspiration
The Rich Loam of Home
IN THE BEGINNING
A Govan Childhood
Street and School
Tools of the Trade
A Saint at Perth
Into Europe with Dunfermline
Learning to Coach
Playing for Scotland?
Rangers: Welcome to Hell
Fighting at Falkirk
The University of Life
EAST STIRLINGSHIRE
Small Wonders
SAINTS ALIVE: THE LOVE STREET YEARS
Building on Baldy
Stark Improvement
A Nest of Vipers
Rancour and Defeat
The Forgotten Man
ABERDEEN
An Emotional Battering
Ferguson is Working
Making Winners
Chastened by Liverpool
Strachan and the Shankly Tapes
Fooling Bayern
Beating Real Madrid
Flailing at Ferguson
Great Stuff, Lads
After Strachan and McGhee
Doing Deals
Snubbing McGhee
Life and Death with Big Jock
Aberdeen, Itchy Feet and Scotland
It’s Barcelona or United
At the World Cup
Pittodrie Postscript
MANCHESTER UNITED: EARLY DAYS
A Chat with Bobby Charlton
Drinking to the Past
Turning Off the Fans
Youth Culture
Jousting with Graham
Strachan Leaves the Nest
Welcome to Hell
You Bastard!
UNITED: STEPS TO GREATNESS
Beating Barcelona
Dreaming On
Darren’s Hamstring
Ah, Cantona . . .
Seeing Red, Seeing Himself
European Nights Off
UNITED: APRÈS MOI LE TREBLE
Ted Beckham’s Lad
I Will Love It . . . Love It
Putting on Spectacles
New Labour: His Part in its Victory
Arsenal on Top
Le Déluge
Winning Plenty Without Kidd
What a Knight
Managing to Hurt
UNITED: THE ENCORE
Goals Galore
Threatening to Quit
The Business with Jason
No Wenger, No Eriksson – Ferguson Stays
To a Long Life
The Iraq Diaries
The Rock and a Hard Place
Magnier’s Gloves Come Off
Sadder and Wiser
UNITED: RONALDO AND ROONEY
Wine with Mourinho
Pizza with Wenger
Fighting Back
Meet the Glazers
The Winter of Keane
José and the Boss
Better than Quaresma
After Schmeichel, van der Sar
Talking a Blinder
Rafa’s Rant
Beaten by Barca
Ronaldo Goes, the Debt Grows
No More the Champions
THE LEGACY
‘Not Today but Tomorrow’
Heroes
Power and Control
Where Stands He?
Loyal to the Last
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