Sir Alex Documentary

Babar

Babar

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Anybody seen this?

I watched the two episodes last night and it was a great watch, apart from Hugh Macdonald gushing over Jock Stein..

Best line, Hugh said Alex, has a Scottish work ethic

Lol
 
Watched some of it and was left feeling a bit sick at Hugh McDonald's comment about Alex adoring BJK. Then we see a clip of Alex himself being asked about working with BJK and his answer was much more subdued.

Also Rangers get blamed for getting rid of Ferguson due to marrying a catholic. Certainly not anyone with Rangers sympathies that created the documentary.
 
RangersForever said:
Watched some of it and was left feeling a bit sick at Hugh McDonald's comment about Alex adoring BJK. Then we see a clip of Alex himself being asked about working with BJK and his answer was much more subdued.

Also Rangers get blamed for getting rid of Ferguson due to marrying a catholic. Certainly not anyone with Rangers sympathies that created the documentary.
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Ferguson was married when he joined Rangers and the club knew who the local lad was married to. In his first autobiography he says he was raging with himself for choosing to leave Rangers after he was made a scapegoat for a Cup final defeat to Celtc.
 
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RangersForever said:
Watched some of it and was left feeling a bit sick at Hugh McDonald's comment about Alex adoring BJK. Then we see a clip of Alex himself being asked about working with BJK and his answer was much more subdued.

Also Rangers get blamed for getting rid of Ferguson due to marrying a catholic. Certainly not anyone with Rangers sympathies that created the documentary.
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Absolutely mate. Was definitely produced by mentally challengeds.

Made Rangers look like knuckle draggers.. Put it this way, when did Sir Alex ever bow down to anyone? Especially Stein, bbc gushing about Stein more than anything.

I could have the wrong end of the stick as i wasn't born but as soon as Hugh Macdonald said he has a Scottish work ethic, then it was confirmed.

I would love to hear from any older bears who knew the actual facts from what actually happened.
 
I really enjoyed the documentary and he was absolutely the best manager ever.
However the Rangers director needs to be named and shamed if this happened as it is starting to get annoying that every time rangers and Ferguson are mentioned together , the story about religion comes on to it.
Let us know who the arse was , then we move on, as it certainly wasn’t the whole club or board who had this opinion and made him feel he had to leave.
 
Babar said:
Anybody seen this?

I watched the two episodes last night and it was a great watch, apart from Hugh Macdonald gushing over Jock Stein..

Best line, Hugh said Alex, has a Scottish work ethic

Lol
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There is a clip from Walters funeral where SAF states during his eulogy it was what he learned at his time with Rangers that he carried on throughout his career.
Bet they didn't show that.
 
MarkWalters11 said:
I really enjoyed the documentary and he was absolutely the best manager ever.
However the Rangers director needs to be named and shamed if this happened as it is starting to get annoying that every time rangers and Ferguson are mentioned together , the story about religion comes on to it.
Let us know who the arse was , then we move on, as it certainly wasn’t the whole club or board who had this opinion and made him feel he had to leave.
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Over the years, the name Willie Allison has been repeatedly mentioned.
 
JayDee said:
Allison wasn't a director. He was public relations officer.
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He was also the nephew of the Rangers historian and bookwroter John Allan. He was "safely dead" by the time Ferguson made this allegation. Ferguson has a history of carrying on vendettas when he falls out with people - he for instance never mentions people who were, for instance, his assistant for X years at St Mirren.
 
mdingwall said:
I've no need to to. He said it was a director, you said the name Willie Allison was mentioned which most people possessed of an IQ higher than that of an ice-cube would assume to be the name of the director.
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Again, I never said he was a Director.
I'd expect those with an IQ higher than an ice cube to know that assumptions aren't facts.
 
Didn't realise Stein was instrumental in Aberdeen beating Real Madrid to win the Cup Winners Cup, when he suggested Ferguson present Di Stefano a bottle of whisky. Pure genius.
 
RangersForever said:
Watched some of it and was left feeling a bit sick at Hugh McDonald's comment about Alex adoring BJK. Then we see a clip of Alex himself being asked about working with BJK and his answer was much more subdued.

Also Rangers get blamed for getting rid of Ferguson due to marrying a catholic. Certainly not anyone with Rangers sympathies that created the documentary.
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My auld man watched it and said the whole thing about him marrying a cathilic got bought up again. Was he not already married to said catholic before signing for us so would have been no surprise.
Also was there any mention of him just not being very good and colin stein being a far far superior player. Also suspect ferguson and stein may have not got on, did stein not give ferguson a slap while playing for hibs against us?
 
My old man knew Alex Ferguson pretty well. They played in the same Harmony Row team for a while, my dad’s amateur team had a tie in with St Mirren when Fergie managed them and my old man drank in Fergies at Paisley Road Toll. In fact a researcher for someone doing a biography on Sir Alex tried several times to talk to my dad but he refused because the researcher wouldn’t disclose who the author was.

My dad held Fergie in very high regard, he was always singing his praises even before Aberdeen and Man Utd.

But he tells a different story about Fergies departure from Ibrox, it’s closer to the story mentioned earlier about being made a scapegoat. Ferguson’s time was indeed.up following the Cup Final defeat and, apparently, Sir Alex got wind that Rangers would be looking for a fee and tried to manipulate a free transfer, IIRC he even gave the directors box the vicky coming off in a game.

It’s my dad’s opinion that Fergie was bitter about how it ended at Ibrox and about not getting a free transfer but that he’s mellowed over the years and can think fondly of his time there.
 
mdingwall said:
He was also the nephew of the Rangers historian and bookwroter John Allan. He was "safely dead" by the time Ferguson made this allegation. Ferguson has a history of carrying on vendettas when he falls out with people - he for instance never mentions people who were, for instance, his assistant for X years at St Mirren.
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As a man I have little regards for SAF. The way he tried to sue his friend JP McManus for a share of the stud money after he was given a share in the horse told me all I need to know about him.
He got to share prize money and the glory, that should have been enough.
He tried to turn an act of kindness from a friend into a money spinner for himself.
 
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