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Telegraph publishes 20 year old audio of a Sir Alex Ferguson press conference
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He came from Argentina
He made Fergie swear in Glaswegian
Juan Seba wooahh
He made Fergie swear in Glaswegian
Juan Seba wooahh
Custis 
"Your fecking stuff is a disgrace to journalism."
"Your fecking stuff is a disgrace to journalism."
Brilliant, that really made me laugh, miss that cantankerous old bastard side of him, didn’t give the journos any quarter.
So this is where ‘Youse are fecking idiots’ comes from
Curtis sounds like a right whiny little bitch!
Amazing stuff. Had to laugh at Custis getting it in the neck
I thought it was well known that it was in response to questions around Veron, no?So this is where ‘Youse are fecking idiots’ comes from
That's how you build a great team spirit and unity. Even if Veron wasn't working out, he was one of us, he wore a United shirt and SAF wasn't going to have anyone talking shit about one of his players.
I’ve seen it on Veron stuff, but I think I’ve seen it on RVN leaving stuff and Ronaldo leaving stuff too, so I don’t know if I’ve mixed it up in my head or people have misattributed that quote or people made that quote a meme (before even memes were a thing) and applied it going forward with the RVN and Ronaldo stuff.
But it is the first time I’ve heard that clip and him saying that. Thank you Sam Wallace. I’m sure Neil Custis will be thrilled and he’s going to go eat some cake to cope with it surfacing
Great to hear. And also very interesting that SAF felt the players had lost their edge that year due to new massive contracts being dished out. And that was 20 years ago. He won’t be the least bit surprised with what he’s seeing at United circa 2022 and in fact said so last week when asked his thoughts on Ten Hag’s appointment, ‘it’s a good move’, he said, ‘because someone needs to come in and take control of the club’ .
The media doesn't get enough flack for the utterly dumb questions they bring to managers and players at times. Even accounting for the fact that it's partly driven by an equally dumb public, you have no personal pride? Access to some of the best minds and talents in the sport and you choose to be a troll?
If more managers gave the SAF treatment then we'd be better off for it today
If more managers gave the SAF treatment then we'd be better off for it today
What a legend, I wish he could come back and give them some of this treatment, they've had a field day since he has been gone, they're absolutely loving it.
I see "20 year old interview" and thought "hmm back in the 90s"
Now I'm upset at how old I'm getting.
Now I'm upset at how old I'm getting.
Same. I was expecting him to be kicking off about Lee Sharpe or something.
Do you have to sign up for the free trial of the Telegraph to read it ?
1990 was 40 years ago
Same! This was a reality check
Amazing, he really loved to put them in their place.
Beautiful.
I miss Sir Alex! It was a privilege to have been able to follow United with him as the boss.
I remember reading somewhere that he was much more volatile before the pres conferences became public, he must have had to cut back on a lot of that edge perhaps to his disdain.
Edit: shame how veron turned out, he was a proper footballer and Fergie too seems to have rated him as such but it wasn't meant to be.
Was super excited when we got him but him occupying the same space as Scholes spelled his doom.
Edit: shame how veron turned out, he was a proper footballer and Fergie too seems to have rated him as such but it wasn't meant to be.
Was super excited when we got him but him occupying the same space as Scholes spelled his doom.
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You think that's bad?
Jim McLean and Alex Ferguson are cut from the same cloth. There's a reason why Aberdeen and Dundee United were labelled "The New Firm".
Reaching the Uefa Cup final, beating Barcelona along the way and reaching the European Cup, losing to Roma (and a now confirmed bribed red) with Dundee United Is some achievement.
Brilliant managers.
Jim McLean and Alex Ferguson are cut from the same cloth. There's a reason why Aberdeen and Dundee United were labelled "The New Firm".
Reaching the Uefa Cup final, beating Barcelona along the way and reaching the European Cup, losing to Roma (and a now confirmed bribed red) with Dundee United Is some achievement.
Brilliant managers.
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Thank you Professor Brian Cox
Thanks.
Little bump but it is worth watching how Fergie dealt with journos. No mercy.
What was that ban for? For asking if Giggs was important?I was thinking the same
. Imagine Fergie today vs our ex players who work as pundits. He would ban them from club.I imagined black and white pictures, crackly recordings.
This was at the start of the time when Giggs was being exposed as a shitty person outside of football. A super injunction was in place by Giggs to stop his name getting out in public that he had an extramarital affair but some MP decided to cut through that by naming him in Parliament.
At the same time we were preparing for the 2011 Champions League Final and this was a huge side story. Obviously the press were probably briefed to focus on the game and not talk about off pitch stuff but some smartass journalist (I believe it was Rob Harris) tried to be clever by asking if Giggs was important to the team, to which Ferguson got him banned as seen in the video.
nice one, I always liked that bit and was wondering what it was about.
"we'll get him then" hehe. Fergie was really something.
The Custis, Woolnough, Barclay generation of football journos were all twats tbh, much prefer this current lot, harmless in comparison even if they’re largely pseudo philosopher football manager boffins