I was thinking more of someone involved in the running of the club, rather than one of his successors. Ferguson was the last of the managers who ran the whole football club from top to bottom. At least at the top level. Now they are all just first team coaches.
It was just a great rags to riches story to trot out during the glory years but Watkins would have looked a right muppet, if he'd ever admitted they were about to sack Ferguson.Based on a conversation I had with Maurice Watkins a few years back, no he wasn’t.
It used to be 13 in 20.When rags say beat 13 Prem in 30 years, I just say 6 in 10 years do tge sums
I may have got this wrong (because I'm sure as hell not going to read one of his me-me-me books) but I have always understood that, as far as actual coaching was concerned, he had very little to with it.
Brian Clough.Greatest British Manager. His legacy is secure: umpteen league titles, European Cup winner and smashed the Glasgow duopoly in Scotland. Loud mouthed bully? Yep. But I’d have loved half the trophies he won to be resting in our cabinet.
We still have time to win half the trophies he won ..
And he’s still there appearing at showdown meetings with CR7 and Ten Minutes we are told when CR7 went on Strike (for that is what it was)We have something to thank him for.
Yes, he put us through misery for 25 years while winning everything ... but he also ran Utd down toward the end, didn't prepare any kind of succession, recommended Moyes, got irrationally bitter toward City during our resurgence, hangs around in the background scowling at successive managers' failings, etc.
Through his ego & arrogance, he's partly responsible for where Utd find themselves now.
And he’s still the biggest **** to have crossed the border.
Peter Tobin runs him close tbf.