Where this on, mateAnyone watched this yet?
Thought he came across very negative towards Rangers and seemed very resentful. Thoughts
he just felt he was treated unfairly by us, and that we used the cup final as an excuse to get rid of him, also says one of the higher ups at rangers asked him if his wife was a catholic and if they were married in a chapel, one things for sure, whatever happened between us and him, fueled him and gived him the drive and determination for the rest of his careerSo what did he say about Rangers?
"Lingering stench"
What i'm taking from Ferguson quoting that is that he's not that interested in Rangers and only looks for a Rangers win over that mob to have a bit of banter with his son.Half a century later how did Ferguson feel when Rangers won their first league title in 10 years this season? “The only time I really support Rangers is when they play Celtic. The big one. Jason is a Celtic fan. I love phoning him up when Rangers have beaten them. The funny thing is that the one team I always look for on Saturday night is Queen’s Park, my first club. I had a great learning experience as a 16-year-old lad playing for them. People think it’s an amateur team but you had to be tough to play for Queen’s Park. That was a great foundation for me.”
Sir Alex Ferguson: ‘Did I think we could still beat Bayern in 1999? No chance!’
In an exclusive interview, the legendary manager and son Jason reflect on the brain haemorrhage that nearly killed him and the film they have just made, his upbringing in Scotland, the lows and highs at Manchester United, his admiration for Steven Gerrard … and that Champions League finalwww.theguardian.com
Yeah says Spiers who couldn't take it anymore at Ibrox and bailed out over to the Jimmy Savile Dome, to instead drown himself in the murderous hymns of hate towards British people, to regale in the joy at the slaughter of British women and children, and all to the clink of coins in the collection tins to fund the terrorist killers wreaking mayhem throughout our unsuspecting cities."Lingering stench"
An ode to irony.
You knew he’d be all over that remark by ferguson . Shows that one director was a right nosey bastard and thought he was funny , yes ferguson should have told him to Fck off but he didn’t so there’s no point crying about it now 60 years later ffs . You wonder what point he is trying to make
Strange how people can alter in how they present aspects of their life as things change around them and it is interesting how some simple yet often deficient investigative questioning could lay bare the contradictions in their claims.What i'm taking from Ferguson quoting that is that he's not that interested in Rangers and only looks for a Rangers win over that mob to have a bit of banter with his son.
I'm sure he gave an RTV interview a few years ago, suggesting he was reluctant to leave Rangers but was given a very good offer from Falkirk and so left; realising, most probably, that he wasn't a first pick at Ibrox.Strange how people can alter in how they present aspects of their life as things change around them and it is interesting how some simple yet often deficient investigative questioning could lay bare the contradictions in their claims.
Ferguson claims bigotry at Ibrox, fair enough, but fails to name the bigot?
Ferguson claims sectarianism at Rangers, yet the club already knows he is married to a Roman Catholic yet have still spent a record sum to bring him to Ibrox before the seemingly by then irrlevant conversation with a director.
Or is he claiming this was a make-or-break question before he signed?
I am not buying any of this, ergo, let's find out where he married his wife before we spend a huge sum of cash on his transfer?
I am sure the question was probably asked, but I am also of the mind that it was one of curiosity by someone whose own particular curiosity was tactless ugly and socially ill-designed.
The religious divide in Glasgow back then was, by today's standards, a thing of no human merit.
One has to wonder, what similar questions did they put to Tottie Beck or Kai Johansen etc regarding their spouses before laying out the dough?
Or was it just Alex?
Of course, Ferguson wasn't chased out of Ibrox, he fell out of favour like many players have done down the years, and in the era he played, it was better to find another club because financially first-team football was everything.
Further, he found himself in this position at a time of huge change around the club, had he stuck it out he may well have prospered.
Instead, he choose to move on, ... his choice.
Perhaps the fact he now knows he weakened and jumped ship before he needed to, was the lesson that gave him the most to forge his later determination to succeed in the face of life's setbacks.
The truth is, Rangers probably made him.
Over the years I have heard and read many conflicting accounts of Ferguson's relationship to the club he grew up supporting and played for.
Much of it depends on who is telling the story and when it is being told.
Needless to say, the Guardian newspaper will always want to focus as negatively as possible when discussing matters that relate to Rangers Football Club.
There’s hardly been a love in its just been people saying he was an excellent manager. In fact the majority have said they don’t like the man but respect the job he’s doneThat doesn’t fit in well with the United/SAF love in we’ve been having on here lately does it. As someone else said he’s a weird guy who goes from turning up at games and cheering us on to being very hostile towards us. Only supports Rangers when they’re playing Celtic and having a Celtic supporting boy doesn’t exactly scream “good Rangers man” as many would have you believe, does it?
Always thought it was a bit pathetic the way he’d recall loan players from clubs when they binned his son too, petty in the extreme.
I'd have thought he'd have some sort of affinity with Aberdeen; going by that, apparently not.Half a century later how did Ferguson feel when Rangers won their first league title in 10 years this season? “The only time I really support Rangers is when they play Celtic. The big one. Jason is a Celtic fan. I love phoning him up when Rangers have beaten them. The funny thing is that the one team I always look for on Saturday night is Queen’s Park, my first club. I had a great learning experience as a 16-year-old lad playing for them. People think it’s an amateur team but you had to be tough to play for Queen’s Park. That was a great foundation for me.”
Sir Alex Ferguson: ‘Did I think we could still beat Bayern in 1999? No chance!’
In an exclusive interview, the legendary manager and son Jason reflect on the brain haemorrhage that nearly killed him and the film they have just made, his upbringing in Scotland, the lows and highs at Manchester United, his admiration for Steven Gerrard … and that Champions League finalwww.theguardian.com
He made the inference in his autobiography about Willie Allison being "of poisonous hostility" and "dangerous and despicable". His words, no one else. Anyway i was answering to Ferguson's words again, in his latest documentary, " The only time i really support Rangers is when they play Celtic. The big one. Jason is a Celtic fan I love phoning him up when Rangers have beaten them".Strange how people can alter in how they present aspects of their life as things change around them and it is interesting how some simple yet often deficient investigative questioning could lay bare the contradictions in their claims.
Ferguson claims bigotry at Ibrox, fair enough, but fails to name the bigot?
Ferguson claims sectarianism at Rangers, yet the club already knows he is married to a Roman Catholic yet have still spent a record sum to bring him to Ibrox before the seemingly by then irrlevant conversation with a director.
Or is he claiming this was a make-or-break question before he signed?
I am not buying any of this, ergo, let's find out where he married his wife before we spend a huge sum of cash on his transfer?
I am sure the question was probably asked, but I am also of the mind that it was one of curiosity by someone whose own particular curiosity was tactless ugly and socially ill-designed.
The religious divide in Glasgow back then was, by today's standards, a thing of no human merit.
One has to wonder, what similar questions did they put to Tottie Beck or Kai Johansen etc regarding their spouses before laying out the dough?
Or was it just Alex?
Of course, Ferguson wasn't chased out of Ibrox, he fell out of favour like many players have done down the years, and in the era he played, it was better to find another club because financially first-team football was everything.
Further, he found himself in this position at a time of huge change around the club, had he stuck it out he may well have prospered.
Instead, he choose to move on, ... his choice.
Perhaps the fact he now knows he weakened and jumped ship before he needed to, was the lesson that gave him the most to forge his later determination to succeed in the face of life's setbacks.
The truth is, Rangers probably made him.
Over the years I have heard and read many conflicting accounts of Ferguson's relationship to the club he grew up supporting and played for.
Much of it depends on who is telling the story and when it is being told.
Needless to say, the Guardian newspaper will always want to focus as negatively as possible when discussing matters that relate to Rangers Football Club.
Folk are always getting wound up whenever someone dares to say anything bad about him and that’s been the case for years, whether it be that he should have won more than 2 CL’s in 26 years, or that he’s a bit of an arsehole. Usually ends with them assuring the rest that he’s a good Rangers man/mates with Walter etc. But the first bit doesn’t really correlate with what he says.There’s hardly been a love in its just been people saying he was an excellent manager. In fact the majority have said they don’t like the man but respect the job he’s done
Put it this way, what makes you happier? Rangers beating Dundee United, or Rangers beating Them? If you put it on a scale of 1 to 10, most clubs would be between 3 and 7, but beating Them is off the scale.The only time i really support Rangers is when they play Celtic. The big one. Jason is a Celtic fan I love phoning him up when Rangers have beaten them".
That comes across to me as Ferguson using a Rangers win to have banter with his son. Don't know about you but I've never known anyone who is only a Rangers fan when we play that mob.
Put it this way, what makes you happier? Rangers beating Dundee United, or Rangers beating Them? If you put it on a scale of 1 to 10, most clubs would be between 3 and 7, but beating Them is off the scale.
He's a pwickAnyone watched this yet?
Thought he came across very negative towards Rangers and seemed very resentful. Thoughts
Read what Ferguson actually said.Put it this way, what makes you happier? Rangers beating Dundee United, or Rangers beating Them? If you put it on a scale of 1 to 10, most clubs would be between 3 and 7, but beating Them is off the scale.
Bit rich for a guy that done similar to players he managed. Jim Leighton for 1.There's an interview with him in the link below. He said he was made a scapegoat for the 4-0 Cup final defeat to Celtic. Maybe he was but, if so, Jim Forrest and George McLean were made scapegoats for the loss to Berwick and Forrest at least was certainly a better player than Ferguson - and before that John Valentine was made a scapegoat for the 1957 League Cup final defeat by Celtic. Nothing to do with wives.
Sir Alex Ferguson: ‘Did I think we could still beat Bayern in 1999? No chance!’
In an exclusive interview, the legendary manager and son Jason reflect on the brain haemorrhage that nearly killed him and the film they have just made, his upbringing in Scotland, the lows and highs at Manchester United, his admiration for Steven Gerrard … and that Champions League finalwww.theguardian.com
His auld man was a tim, his wife was a tim and as such so would half his immediate family, his son was indoctrinated into the rotten mob before he went to Man U.Its really bizzare that his sons support Celtic.
Not Aberdeen, Rangers or Man U
I thought his auld man was a prod that jumped the dyke.His auld man was a tim, his wife was a tim and as such so would half his immediate family, his son was indoctrinated into the rotten mob before he went to Man U.
His father was Protestant who followed that other mob.His auld man was a tim, his wife was a tim and as such so would half his immediate family, his son was indoctrinated into the rotten mob before he went to Man U.
Maybe his father was the type of Protestant that had never seen the inside of a church, maybe he didn't care about religion, although he did not allow SAF to be raised catholic even though Ferguson's mother was catholic.His father was Protestant who followed that other mob.
He's not a Rangers fan.Maybe his father was the type of Protestant that had never seen the inside of a church, maybe he didn't care about religion, although he did not allow SAF to be raised catholic even though Ferguson's mother was catholic.
Maybe the Ferguson family didn't really give a f()k about mythical sky fairies.
Fergusons mother was catholic, when the Rangers PR man made the comment about his wife he was rightly upset, however he has stated in writing that it was not the reason for him leaving Rangers.
If people were to look beyond the labels of religion they will see the real reasons for Ferguson's anger at Rangers, he was a fan who's dream came true to pull on the jersey only to be told he was being punted cos he wasn't good enough, so much so he initially refused to be sold.
He is a Rangers fan who stood on the terraces as a kid, who pulled on the jersey and lived our dreams, he is also the greatest manager this country has ever produced, he will die a Rangers fan