Retiring
Manchester United
manager, Sir Alex
Ferguson, has
revealed that he
told the club about
his decision to
step down in
March, as his team
began to build a
sizeable lead in the
Premier League.
The 71-year-old also admitted it was hard
keeping the news under wraps and had to
make it public after the Red Devils sealed
their 20th League title.
"Sometimes I was sitting with my family
and you forget you're actually going to
retire and talk about next year," he told
MUTV. "You're afraid you're going to blurt
something else but I didn't tell my sons
until the end of March – well, Jason knew
earlier as he works a lot with me.
"I only told my brother
the night before it was announced and he
wasn't too pleased! I got a bit of invective
off him.
"It was difficult but the club knew in March.
We sat down and discussed it and, of
course, David [Gill] is retiring too and it
gave me a problem as I didn't want to think
we'd be leaving the club in the lurch.
"The rumour started out, didn't it. On
Tuesday night, the rumour had gone out
and it's hard to keep things intact at Old
Trafford. It's a bit of a sieve at times and
news seems to creep out from all different
angles and sources.
"I've tried over the years to eliminate these
leakages of news getting out. I always
thought, over the last 10 years especially, a
part of my job is to keep us out of the
news, which is nigh on impossible.
"You have to accept we are news but
there's a difference between good news
and bad news. I always tried to keep bad
news away from the club and that's
difficult in the modern day."
Manchester United
manager, Sir Alex
Ferguson, has
revealed that he
told the club about
his decision to
step down in
March, as his team
began to build a
sizeable lead in the
Premier League.
The 71-year-old also admitted it was hard
keeping the news under wraps and had to
make it public after the Red Devils sealed
their 20th League title.
"Sometimes I was sitting with my family
and you forget you're actually going to
retire and talk about next year," he told
MUTV. "You're afraid you're going to blurt
something else but I didn't tell my sons
until the end of March – well, Jason knew
earlier as he works a lot with me.
"I only told my brother
the night before it was announced and he
wasn't too pleased! I got a bit of invective
off him.
"It was difficult but the club knew in March.
We sat down and discussed it and, of
course, David [Gill] is retiring too and it
gave me a problem as I didn't want to think
we'd be leaving the club in the lurch.
"The rumour started out, didn't it. On
Tuesday night, the rumour had gone out
and it's hard to keep things intact at Old
Trafford. It's a bit of a sieve at times and
news seems to creep out from all different
angles and sources.
"I've tried over the years to eliminate these
leakages of news getting out. I always
thought, over the last 10 years especially, a
part of my job is to keep us out of the
news, which is nigh on impossible.
"You have to accept we are news but
there's a difference between good news
and bad news. I always tried to keep bad
news away from the club and that's
difficult in the modern day."
Cyril 16 May, 2013
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