It is basically an interview.
This should not be called an autobiography unless Fergie got out a typewriter and did the hard work himself.
Sir Alex Ferguson’s autobiography to be published on 24 October
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This should not be called an autobiography unless Fergie got out a typewriter and did the hard work himself.
Don't think you get many of them nowadays, people, especially football managers don't have the time to write them. You wonder if he was making notes of his thoughts or if Paul Hayward asked him loads of questions and the book was compiled. Would Sir Alex have spoken about some of the people he did or was he only answering Hayward's questions.
Most autobiographies are ghost written nowadays.
Maybe in the sporting world where people don't want to put in the effort and want a quick payday.
These types of "authorised biographies" are generally rushed and usually pretty terrible (there are some good ones of course).
Agreed, generally. I'll still read Fergie's though because he's an interesting bloke.
Absolutely. I'll get around to it one day as well. One of my favourite ghost written things is Maradonas. Sometime the subject matter is just interesting regardless.
Not exactly. Writing a book is not that simple, if you are expecting it to sell. So you hire a writer to do it for you. Someone who has knowledge of the literary world, can help put your thoughts in a format that may be acceptable to a wider populace. It's more of a question of expertise than a quick payday.
I can understand someone like Wayne Rooney needing help with his "autobiography", not Fergie.
That's usually what a publisher helps you with, to be fair.
Haven't read it, but it sounds like a glorified bitch fest.
Nope. The autobiographies of people like Bill Clinton etc also were ghostwritten. Just being educated does not make a good writer.
Publisher enahnces a writers contribution, like making it smaller, snappier, two volumes etc...but it does not replace a writer's work!
That's what I meant. If Fergie wrote a pile of work about his life it'd be up to a good publisher to arrange it into a format he knew would sell. Very different to actually writing it for him, like a ghost writer.
I don't quite remember how much, but I do seem to recall that Fergie said he wrote a crapload, then Hayward helped him compile and organize it.
Beckham won't criticise Fergie
David Beckham has refused to openly criticise Sir Alex Ferguson for comments about him in his autobiography.
The former Manchester United manager has revealed he sold Beckham to Real Madrid in 2003 because he felt the former England captain had lost his focus.
But Beckham has no ill feelings toward the man who nurtured his career at United and admits he wants Ferguson to manage his Major League Soccer franchise.
Beckham, who was speaking to fans on his Facebook page at the launch of his new autobiography, said: "I'm not going to sit here and be negative about a man who gave me the chance to play for my boyhood team. That I'd always dreamt of playing for.
"For me, like I said, he gave me the chance to do that. He believed in me, he believed in the rest of the young lads that came through with us.
He joked: "Funny thing was, obviously I'm involved in the MLS and I'm involved in bringing my own franchise into the league and actually he was one of the first numbers that I was going to call to be manager, but I'm not so sure anymore. I'm not sure he'd accept.
"All joking aside, at the end of the day, I wouldn't be negative about Sir Alex Ferguson because he was the man that gave me the chance to live my dream.
Beckham is planning to set up his MLS franchise in Miami, although an ownership deal is yet to be agreed.
The 38-year-old admits he is relishing the challenge of setting up an American team following his successful playing career at Los Angeles Galaxy.
Beckham said: "When I signed my contract six, seven years ago, my manager Simon Fuller actually got a clause in the contract that enabled me to have a franchise at the end of my playing career and obviously now I've stopped playing.
"A year before we started looking around at different places. Miami was obviously one of them. We've looked at other places as well, but I'm excited about that. I'm passionate about it. I'm passionate about staying involved in football. An owner of a team is something I'm passionate about."
http://www.football365.com/news/21554/8999553/Beckham-Won-t-Criticise-Fergie
I'm pretty sure this would have already been posted but this is why Becks remains one of my all time favourite United players, even above the likes of Ronaldo etc. A bit of a celebrity but a very classy guy who loves this club.
David Beckham has refused to openly criticise Sir Alex Ferguson for comments about him in his autobiography.
The former Manchester United manager has revealed he sold Beckham to Real Madrid in 2003 because he felt the former England captain had lost his focus.
But Beckham has no ill feelings toward the man who nurtured his career at United and admits he wants Ferguson to manage his Major League Soccer franchise.
Beckham, who was speaking to fans on his Facebook page at the launch of his new autobiography, said: "I'm not going to sit here and be negative about a man who gave me the chance to play for my boyhood team. That I'd always dreamt of playing for.
"For me, like I said, he gave me the chance to do that. He believed in me, he believed in the rest of the young lads that came through with us.
He joked: "Funny thing was, obviously I'm involved in the MLS and I'm involved in bringing my own franchise into the league and actually he was one of the first numbers that I was going to call to be manager, but I'm not so sure anymore. I'm not sure he'd accept.
"All joking aside, at the end of the day, I wouldn't be negative about Sir Alex Ferguson because he was the man that gave me the chance to live my dream.
Beckham is planning to set up his MLS franchise in Miami, although an ownership deal is yet to be agreed.
The 38-year-old admits he is relishing the challenge of setting up an American team following his successful playing career at Los Angeles Galaxy.
Beckham said: "When I signed my contract six, seven years ago, my manager Simon Fuller actually got a clause in the contract that enabled me to have a franchise at the end of my playing career and obviously now I've stopped playing.
"A year before we started looking around at different places. Miami was obviously one of them. We've looked at other places as well, but I'm excited about that. I'm passionate about it. I'm passionate about staying involved in football. An owner of a team is something I'm passionate about."
http://www.football365.com/news/21554/8999553/Beckham-Won-t-Criticise-Fergie
I'm pretty sure this would have already been posted but this is why Becks remains one of my all time favourite United players, even above the likes of Ronaldo etc. A bit of a celebrity but a very classy guy who loves this club.
Started reading last night. It reads completely differently to any other book I've read, even in the early days he seems utterly ruthless.
As capable as Fergie may be, it doesn't mean he has the abilities to write and publish a book by himself.
I'm well read, but I can't write for the life of me.
Ferguson would probably have done a better job than Hayward.
Every time I nearly get over my man crush he comes out with something like this.
So true.
¿So did the gaffer have anything to say about Berbatov or Tevez?
Fergie made notes
Have only read about a quarter of the book so far, and am enjoying it. However there are certain inaccuracies you'd sport. E.g. he said that Veron and Heinze had a run in after a game at Portmouth one year, yet Veron left the year before Heinze joined. Also little things like saying Stam played against United when he was 36, he was 32. Stam was 30 when he left, he was actually 29. And Keane played for United for 11 years, when he was actually there for over 12.
Yeah, I was a bit puzzled about that as well. A bit weird that it was not picked up during editing.
Hayward had all that great material - and still made a dog's dinner of it.
Ok, what the feck is it with all this media negativity towards Fergie? The Gerrard fuss was way OTT and it's still going on. Todays Mirror I read the Brian Reade column and he claims Beckham not hitting back at Fergie shows he's a bigger, better man. And he actually finished the article with the line "Whereas Ferguson just looks like the bitter, insecure bully he’s always been."
How is this allowed to happen in national newspapers? A genuine agenda against Ferguson because he knocked Liverpool off their fecking perch. The pricks.
How is this allowed to happen in national newspapers? A genuine agenda against Ferguson because he knocked Liverpool off their fecking perch. The pricks.
Who gives a feck about some no-hoper, shite journalist or two? The fact is Fergie is still haunting those even now that he finished his tenure at United.
It's funny how it was ok for those rags to start some shit discussion about 'Scholes vs Gerrard' and then keep praising captain Starfish for no particular reason while writing Scholesy off, but once Fergie had his say in this debate ( albeit a tad late ) they're all butthurt because he's saying how it is.
From perspective of a Pole you'd think that with Gerrard England has won all the world cups, european cups and feck knows what more.
Everything else notwithstanding I find it astounding that they're trying to portray Fergie as bitter. A bully? Perhaps, looked upon from a certain perspective - but bitter? At who? Rafa? Keano? Stevie G? It makes no sense. They have cause to feel bitter, perhaps - but he surely hasn't. He has swept the floor with all of them in one sense or another. The only people mentioned in the book a truly bitter man might have cause to resent, are being praised in no uncertain terms: Pep Guardiola and his three musketeers, who denied Fergie two CL trophies.
Reade is the chairman of the Fergie hate club. Nothing he says can be taken seriously. Every column he has ever written contains a dig at Fergie.
I know he is, it's just annoying that he gets away with it. Writing shit like "Ferguson just looks like the bitter, insecure bully he’s always been." as if it's fact, to who knows how many readers nationwide.
Reade is a wanker. In fact the Mirror is just a mouthpiece for the "self-pity city" nowadays. Not worth wiping your arse with.
It used to be one of the better tabloids if there is such a thing, but now it's just the Star/Sun without tits on page 3.
He was talking about Keane having a run in with Veron and how timid Veron's response was. He was contrasting this with Heinze having run in with Keane and how Heinze was willing to fight Keane.
So he was talking about Keane and Heinze having a run in after the Portsmouth match, not Veron.
who fecking cares, what a sad act that chap must be.
I bet it's fecking Keegan.
I'd love it Fergie made mistakes in his autobiography. Love it!
I'd love it Fergie made mistakes in his autobiography. Love it!