Hello and welcome to a very special edition of the TIFO Football Podcast.

We'll be back next week with the podcast as normal, but this week we're joined by Senior Rights

for the Athletic, Olli Kaye and Danny Taylor, talk about the experience of covering Sir Alex

Ferguson.

This is obviously in celebration of his 80th birthday and part of our new State at the Club

episode.

If you haven't seen it, it was released yesterday,

and head on over to the Illustrated channel,

and I hope you enjoy it.

And on with the podcast.

So I think from an outsider's perspective,

the experience of covering Sir Alex Ferguson

looked absolutely terrifying.

And for a journalist,

you're presumably aware of never asking the wrong question or kind of treading on things which he didn't want mentioned.

Was the angriest you ever saw him?

The angriest.

Where do I even start with Fergie's temper tantrums?

He could be terrifying.

Every Friday we'd turn up and it was the kind of most exciting part of the week, but you'd be, the other journalist would be there, and you'd kind of be, it'd all be like, what kind of moods are going to be in? And, you know, it's kind of, there's a, there's a, you almost have to plan your questions accordingly. The sort of things you don't have to do with most managers. But he could take it by surprise.

So basically the times where he thought he'd be like raging

because they'd had a bad result and learned a bad press,

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