Great Scot! He actually calls time!

Sir Alex Ferguson

13 premier league titles

5 FA cups

4 league cups

2 champions league titles

10 community shields

countless individual accolades 

The most successful club manager of all time!

When every Red Devil arose from his sleep today, we never thought the date 8Th may 2013 could mean anything. I wake up to a vague message from a friend saying he MAY be retiring. As always I laugh it off. Then he makes a convincing case. I switch on the TV and BBC reports the same so i wait because my friend calls back and says wait till 2.30 pm. Just when its time I doze off.  Awakened by a message on my phone. One word: RETIRED.

I know all the range of emotions we feel as football fans for our respective clubs. There was one I was yet to experience : “Losing a manager”. We haven't lost him in the sense that he was booted out the back door as is the case with ever single Chelsea manager since 2004. Yet this feeling of lost helplessness told me that for the first time I felt a bit worried about the future at Man Utd. We have lost so many players over the years, Beckham, Nistelrooy, Stam, Ronaldo! We had so many great depart Cantona, Keano, Scholsy after this season the Neville's. Yet I was not worried. why should i be? We had the great elder, the watchful eye who held us together as we went through the greatest era the club has ever seen!

Sir Alex Ferguson. A man who defined the club in many ways that we modern fan’s see it today. For many including me we have never seen anyone else at the helm. My connection to his reign is a little bizarre when you see the day my parents got married. It was 6th November 1986. I am not making that up. And just like their amazing marriage, it looks like Fergie's knot to Man Utd was a match made in heaven!

Everyone is going to be talking stats and everyone knows what he has achieved every red devil worth his salt knows exactly every fact and figure about him there so nothing I say about that will surprise you all. I want to look at him as the man, a simple boy from Gavon who changed the face of club football and the English football league as he took everyone by storm to become the most successful club manager in the nation.

When he walks down the tunnel at the Hawthorns on the 19th of may he will complete 1500 games in charge of this great club. Can you just take a moment to think about that number? that 1500 times he has had to sit there be it sun, cloudy, rainy, snowing and knowing the weather there it could all be at once! He took the team from where Reading are sitting pretty right now on the table to heights reserved for the gods. He took a team with frustrated and angry young men, Men who hadn't tasted success in a long, long time and gave them the riches of the kings.

The mark of the man was not walking into a room and saying, "hello everybody, my name is Alex and I have come here to knock Liverpool off their f****** perch." It was standing there on that Blackburn pitch in 2011 and watches his group of superstars dance to celebrate title number 19 and then showing the world he had made the perch his own.     It was not about the guy who lost his cool when he was told he can’t won anything with kids, it was in 1999 when those same kids had all grown up to win everything there is to offer in English club football.

All this brings me to what i loved most about him. HE DID NOT CARE. He was never bothered what people said, what media say what the pundits said and sometimes even what his own wife said. He kept on going, kept on dreaming and helped us fans realize all the dreams we ever dreamt. He was wily and stubborn but those traits made him what he is today: THE GREATEST.

No matter what will be said from here on till eternity, there will be only one Sir Alex Ferguson. Today it was made clear when every single football fans united or otherwise tipped their caps to this great man in recognition of the feat he achieved in his time at the helm of the greatest club on the face of the earth. It is finally the full time whistle but now we are into Fergie time! The future is a little uncertain but I am still excited as long as he is part of us!

He took us over as a manager, he leaves us a LEGEND.

THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES ALEX, YOU WILY FOX!

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