Manchester United all-time legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson has expressed the hardest and the happiest time of his profession at Old Trafford.
Ferguson concedes the 1989/90 season, when United won the FA Cup, as the most difficult time of his life.
Ferguson changed United from a first-class team into the best club in English football history somewhere in the range of 1986 to 2013. He had mostly experienced huge success at Old Trafford but there was a time during his initial days with United where he experienced huge set-backs and a lack of motivation.
He said while talking about his upcoming biography: “In terms of the regrets, the 1994 team I had, the back four all seemed to grow old together, and that’s a terrible thing to happen to the manager because these guys were fantastic for me. Paul Parker, Steve Bruce, Gary Pallister, Denis Irwin: Fantastic players. I managed to organize a move for them, and they did well out of it, but telling them is very, very difficult. The same when having to let young players go. Maybe he’s only 17, 18 years of age. The way we’d explain it is we’d try and get him a team. We’d try and get him a club and ‘we’re sorry we’re having to do this. That’s terrible. That is the worst thing, having to let a young player go. All his ambitions and hopes and desires are about playing for Manchester United in front of 75,000 people and going to Wembley in a final. That’s the ambition of every young kid that comes to Manchester United, and when you take that away from him, it’s a sore, sore thing. So I hated that. I hated that.”
Ferguson managed a terrific figure of 1,500 games across all rivalries during his experience with the Red Devils, bragging a success rate of 60%. The 79-year-old conveyed 38 prizes, including 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League crowns, and five FA Cups.
When asked about his best and the happiest time at Old Trafford, he said: “Oh, the day we won the league for the first time. God almighty! I couldn’t get out of the car park. There were thousands of them. I went there in the afternoon because they wanted a photo taken with the trophy and I went there at about three o’clock. There were thousands there and I couldn’t get out of my car, they were engulfing me. It was unbelievable. So what you were doing that day was satisfying the anxiety and relief of 26 years. That’s what I was doing that day.”
There were loads of memories for him with Red Devils and such stories will always live long.
