I'll drink all the vineyards dry: Retiring Alex Ferguson reveals his post-Manchester United plans
I'll drink all the vineyards dry: Retiring Alex Ferguson reveals his post-Manchester United plans
Plus: Managerial legend admits he DID try to influence referees and reveals how ex-chairman's son helped get him to Old Trafford
Vintage Red: Fergie's thirst for glory has been quenched at last
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Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed the unlikely role that the son of his
old Aberdeen chairman played in his phenomenal Manchester United success
story.
Ferguson, who will hang up his watch after Sunday's visit
to West Brom, also recalled how Dick Donald - his then-boss when he was
managing the Scottish club - told him six months before he took the Old
Trafford job in 1986 that United were the only club which could satisfy
him.
Donald knew all about United’s potential because his son Ian
played for them in the early 1970s, before joining his father on the
Aberdeen board.
“When I came here, I knew it was the challenge I needed,” said Ferguson.
“At Aberdeen, I’d been there eight-and-a-half years, and I got to the point where I needed a new challenge.
“My old chairman at Aberdeen said to me, ‘The only club that will ever satisfy you is Manchester United.’
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Manchester United parade
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“The connection was his son had played for Manchester United.
That was six months before I came here and it all came true the
following November.”
Ferguson, who also joked he plans to “drink
all the vineyards dry” in retirement, also finally admitted he did try
to nobble officials.
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Manchester United's Player of the Year awards 2013
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He says he was even at it during his final game at Old
Trafford on Sunday - when United went into stoppage time holding a
slender 2-1 lead over Swansea.
“The fourth official on Sunday showed me the board and it said eight minutes,” said the United boss.
“I said, 'Think again.'
"That’s been a part of it - the pressure you try and put on referees. But I save mind games for opponents.”
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