Sir Alex Ferguson - The Glaswegian Genius

"Several important names ended up discussed as thinkable successors to Sir Alex Ferguson up over time, but the former toolmaker is still simply better than his peers."

Sir Alex Ferguson has, just as the time honoured cliché has it, come a long way to the top. The famous Manchester United gaffer has generated his total managerial career upon the sound principles he uncovered as a Clydeside trainee and over the time he's achieved an international reputation for his fighting spirit and honest artistry. Under the bright stewardship from the person who once managed East Stirlingshire, Man Utd had become the most wealthy soccer club around the world by far in the 1990s by just winning soccer matches.

As being a player, Sir Alex Ferguson made an appearance for Queens Park, St Johnstone and Dunfermline before he was sold to boy hood idols Glasgow Rangers for a record breaking transfer amount of £65,000 during the summer of 1967. The quality centre forward later on played with regard to Falkirk and lastly Ayr United in which a niggling injury forced him to finish his professional playing career at the end of the 1973-74 season. The Glaswegian started off his incredibly long and illustrious managerial career at East Stirlingshire before the working class hero some day decided to move on to St Mirren followed by Aberdeen. While managing The Dons, the former shipyard apprentice broke the Old Firm dominance of Scottish soccer successfully winning three Scottish Premier League titles, the Scottish Cup four times and the Scottish League Cup 2 times. A legend in his own time, Sir Alex Ferguson was appointed executive at Old Trafford in November 1986 and won his first league title together with Manchester United in 1993.

The English Premier League is probably the most polyglot league in the entire world and it´s typical to discover a team without one English born player. Only for the sake of information, the West Ham United team of 1975 is the last all English side to win the FA Cup. So if a foreign manager ended up being take control of at Manchester United some day, he would probably ruin the culture of the club by attracting large numbers of overseas footballers. A number of larger names are already pointed out as potential successors to Sir Alex Ferguson up over the years, however the former toolmaker remains to be head and shoulders above his competitors.

Sir Alex Ferguson: "My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their bloody perch. And you can print that."