Sir Alex Ferguson: Big Interview Icon

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our Big Interview Icons series where we shine a light on a legend whose name has lit up some of the conversations I’ve had with my guests over the last six years of The Big Interview. This episode focuses on Sir Alex Ferguson.

Rio Ferdinand once vented his rage at Sir Alex and was fortunate not to be sold. But he never doubted his genius. Yet there was a flaw to that genius, exposed when he left Manchester United too open in the 2009 and 2011 Champions League final defeats to Barcelona. Rio found the latter defeat particularly embarrassing.

Terry Gibson tells us about how Sir Alex’s arrival at Manchester United was the new broom Old Trafford needed after the lax regime of Ron Atkinson. Terry’s face didn’t fit, but luckily Wimbledon came calling.

Alex McLeish relates how his former Aberdeen boss tried to poach him for Manchester United, while Darren Fletcher provides an amazing insight into a Fergie team talk. He could be unpredictable, but ultimately exuded a calmness which affected his players and filled them with belief.

Lastly, fellow manager Gianluca Vialli speaks of what an inspiration Sir Alex was, and shares with us two golden nuggets of advice he always remembered.

Enjoy

Graham

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1:25.1	Love you. Welcome back to the Big Interview icons series. In this occasion it's Sir Alex Ferguson
1:48.2	our guests will help us shine a light on. His name has cropped up time and again in the chats I've had with our
1:56.2	guests over the last six years of the big interview. Real Ferdinand once
2:01.3	vented his absolute rage at Sir Alex and was fortunate not to be sold from Manchester
2:06.5	United as a result, but he never doubted Furious Fergie's genius.
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