- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Orion; New edition edition (6 Jan 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752827707
- ISBN-13: 978-0752827704
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,804,849 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Manchester Utd's unprecedented treble of Premiership title, FA Cup and Champions' League reserved Alex Ferguson's seat at the table with Shankley, Paisley and Busby, and there can hardly be a more public expression of this acceptance into the British football aristocracy than his knighthood. So why, when Daily Mirror journalist Harry Harris asked a "Who's Who" of the game's leading figures to contribute their views of The Ferguson Effect, is the result something less than an unreserved celebration of the man and his methods?
The answer is that on and off the pitch Ferguson is guided by the same simple principle--you're on his side or the wrong side, and for all the accounts of his personal charm and loyalty included here, the wrong side looks to hold the numerical advantage.
Several of the celebrity contributors portray an obsessive, bullying man with a violent temper who goes out of his way to oppose the right of others to express opinions. Others are less forgiving. Yet, in an era when club loyalty is something only the mediocre or the injured seem to practise, Ferguson has successfully nurtured a longstanding squad of international stars. Footballers who've made the first team since they were old enough to spit, and who could presumably go anywhere else, are apparently happy just to spend time on his bench.
Ferguson's is a life lived between apparently irreconcilable poles of opinion and this entertaining book asks whether this is the principle catalyst of his extraordinary achievement. --Alex Hankin
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From his early career as a manager for Aberdeen to taking the helm at Manchester United and guiding the club to its most glorious period for 30 years, Alex Ferguson has become the most influential and succesful figure in English soccer in the 1990s, perhaps ever. In this tribute, fellow managers and international stars of the game provide personal insights into one of soccer's most successful managers anywhere in the world.
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How do you take the career of one of the most colourful and interesting of football characters and turn it into a book of such drivel? To say the style of writing was tedious would be akin to saying Amazon has a few books. The opening chapter was without form and constantly wandered off on non-sequential ramblings. A stream of conciousness which would suggest that Harris wasn't really paying too much attention to writing a book about a genuine football hero but merely cutting and pasting random thoughts and anecdotes in such a haphazard fashion as to bore the neutral and infuriate the admirer of one of football's greatest characters. At no time in the book were Harris' opinions of the least bit interesting, informative, novel or insightful and I am led to doubt that the author has ever even met Sir Alex such is the lack of substance in this book. Even the opinions and compliments of those quoted in the book seemed uninteresting and insincere. This I attributed to the editing.
For shame Mr. Harris. Had this been a school essay, it would surely have been awarded a big red "F".
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