Managing My Life - Alex Ferguson Reviews

The smell of hamburgers and horse manure swept through the air. People chatted to each other, rubbing their hands to keep themselves warm. It was March, and the spring air bit into the skin, even though the sun tried bravely to break through the clouds. An excited eight-year-old boy stood patiently with his father, waiting to go into the football ...

Whether you like this book, the autobiography of Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, will largely depend on your feelings towards the subject... More of that later, however, and for now let's concentrate on the book itself. Like most such footie biographies Managing My Life is ghost written, with healthy revisions by ...

Alex Ferguson is one of the people I most admire in football today. As much as I hate Manchester United I have to look on at his record with admiration, and I actually like the bloke as a person. Not only has he dominated English football over the last decade with his Manchester United team, also breaking the Rangers/Celtic domination in ...

Love him or loathe him, one has to admit that the story of the lad from the working class background who made it to the pinnacle of football management makes compulsive reading. In his own words Ferguson tells how he, the son of a Glasgow shipbuilder, overcame such disadvantaged early years to achieve the unparalleled success of the 1999 ...

I have read a lot of footballing books in my time - and this must be one of the most interesting autobioghies of the most respected man in football. This book reveals not only the successful management side of the Manchester United manager but also the tough childhood, his eventful life as a player as well as his successes off the pitch. I am ...

You have to admit that Sir Alex has been a great manager over the years and his genius has made Manchester United what it is today. But not all that many people knew about his roots, beginnings and professional career as a footballer. That is until only a few months ago however, but since the publishing of his autobiography, Managing My ...

Alex Ferguson is without any shadow of a doubt the most successful football manager of the last twenty years, and 'Managing My Life' chronicles his career, first as a distinctly average player and then as an increasingly impressive manager. This book is required reading for anyone interested in football today, since no-one can ...

After reading ALEX FERGUSON,S auto biography,entitled "MANAGING MY LIFE",I must say that it is possibly the best biography I have read to-date. Honestly potraying his life and carrier so far.From his boyhood days in the clydside district of glasgow.Playing for various boys clubs to his rise to become a proffesional footballer. He ...