Born in Glasgow in 1941, Sir Alex Ferguson was playing football at an international level as a school boy. He began his professional playing career in 1958 with Queen's Park. Four times winner of Manager of the Year, he has been the manager of Manchester United for thirteen years during a time when they have become the most successful and richest club in the world.
The best football autobiography I have ever read - The Sunday Times The richest and most enthralling story in post-war British sport - Independent Danielle Steele meets Geoffrey Archer with a Booker Prize quality injected by Hugh McIlvanney - Independent on Sunday Provocative, stimulating, emotional and honest - The Herald Ferguson emerges from this account as a genuine national hero, one of the great Scots of the 20th century - Mail on Sunday