He was great for Aberdeen and great for united. Cannot be disputed, he was a fantastic man manager.
But I’d argue he was bad for football.
The erosion of respect for and at times outright hostility towards referees and match officials, opposing teams and managers, international football, the FA Cup and indeed a friendly local rivalry all have his grubby, bitter, self interested greasy fingerprints all over them.
Panorama exposed the shady financial links between himself, his son, the blackmail of young players and financial kickbacks back to the Ferguson family empire.
His much threatened libel suit never materialised after united’s lawyers told him he was bang to rights.
Instead of being arrested and jailed for extortion the club decided to back his boycott of a media rights holder.
The craven premier league allowed him to do so for a decade.
The craven BBC then gave him an award in exchange for belatedly changing his stance.
He persuaded united’s lawyers to pressure a court of law into inexplicably bringing forward the pre-agreed adjournment of his other son’s sentencing hearing for volleying the mother of his grandchildren’s head around the driveway of Ferguson’s own home, so the full gory details of her ordeal and injuries wouldnt be reported in the media
It is glorious that united’s current troubles stem from the ego, personal avarice and greed of a self-righteous, self-proclaimed so-called socialist who demanded the financial benefits of jism milked form a horse he ‘owned’ as a basic bribe and never paid a penny for.
Don’t forget he took the Glaizer hush money.
So yeah, great for united, horrendous for humanity