Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography: The autobiography of the legendary Manchester United manager

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There are other passages of the book that feel like a headlong rush through events that might have been more profitably reflected upon and then written about further down the line. Probably would of been a better book if he took some timeout to reflect on his career, as it seems like Ferguson wrote this book as if he was still the Man Utd manager making sure he was protecting the interests of the club.

It is not interesting, unless you know who Alex Ferguson and appreciate what he has done for the game. It then chronicles his adventures during his playing days and as a manager, particularly at Manchester United.He has the honor of being the longest-serving manager of Manchester United the English Premier League Club. Then it goes on with his adventurous life as a soccer player to his managerial roles, most significantly at Manchester United. The Mail on Sunday in their review stated ‘Ferguson emerges from this account as a genuine national hero, one of the great Scots of the 20th century.

He is famed for his dedication to Manchester United, his passion for football and his determination to win. The book opens up with Ferguson describing that famous year which saw him winning the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League as well as getting honoured with a knighthood by the Queen. Undoubtedly moving when, for example, it recounts the manager's paternal pride in nurturing homegrown youthful talent, it reads like a succession of sporting back pages when it comes to settling scores with former colleagues and rivals in the game.This is the better of the two Ferguson books and the one which is a real autobiography and will tell you things you didn't necessarily know, about his background growing up, playing career and so on. His book is really a piece of oral history, and his life is a conduit to a time when a working-class man of talent could, not by the magical alchemy of elite education or the stardust of celebrity, but by a lifetime of hard work and hard thinking, rise to the very top and, flaws aside, remain true to the best of the world he came from. If you would like to understand more about football - that's soccer to Americans - then I heard you to read this book or to download it from Audible. There is little back ground to Fergies time at Man United, his time at Aberdeen as a manager and Rangers as a player were both stories I was looking forward to along with his short time Managing Scotland but all these are only occasionally referred to.

Having already read Ferguson's other autobiography I wondered why it skimmed over his early and playing years. As a player Fergie's career was more distinguished than most people know, and his account of his early days in Govan and in Scottish football are incredible, especially when one considers the pampered lifestyle of footballers nowadays, and the depths to which Scottish football has lamentably fallen. A tour de force in the world of football, Alex Ferguson wrote this book for his fans, addressing personal feuds, triumphs and highlights of his life on the pitch.My father told me this when I was a little shithead of a teenager and didn't study (I discovered that strange life form - girls). I also was disappointed in that there wasn’t more about how he manages players and situations but the sections he describes some of his techniques are interesting all the same. In 1964, Alex Ferguson went professional as he signed for Dunfermline Athletic in the Scottish division.