Alex: The Man Behind The Legend

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He ended the following season by winning his 12th and Manchester United's 19th league title and thus overtaking Liverpool's record of 18. Analyst Alan Hansen stated that he believed Ferguson was "the key component" in United's success that season, so key in fact that "[he] would have claimed the crown with any of the other top sides had he been in charge of them".

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They set the early pace in the Premier League and never relinquished top spot from the tenth match of the 38-game season. During the season, Ferguson managed his 1,000th game in charge of United in a 2–1 home win against Lyon. Gordon Strachan was a key player for Ferguson at Aberdeen, but their relationship broke down when Strachan signed an agreement with German club FC Köln without telling Ferguson. Subsequent interviews on BBC programmes such as Match of the Day were done by his assistants, latterly Mike Phelan.

Adam Zamoyski strips away the lacquer of prejudice and places Napoleon the man within the context of his times. A shortage of goals and being held to draws by teams they had been expected to beat in the second half of the campaign had proved to be the undoing of a United side who had performed so well in the first half of the season. Ruud van Nistelrooy's future at Old Trafford was in doubt after not starting in the League Cup final, and he departed at the end of the season. And so the 1995–96 season began without a major signing, at a time when the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool and Newcastle were making the headlines with big-money signings. In most cases, we have also added more detailed comments ourselves about the condition of a particular book.

citation needed] Jason directed the 2021 documentary Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In about his father.