Legendary Aberdeen boss Sir Alex Ferguson has pointed to the club’s European Cup Winners’ Cup triumph in 1983 as the reason for his opposition to the doomed European Super League plans. However, Ferguson said his experience at Pittodrie between 1978 and 1986, where he led Aberdeen to every domestic honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup and European Super Cup, showed competitions reserved for the wealthiest clubs would remove the “real reason” for football. In a promotional interview with the BBC for new documentary Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In, which tells the story of his life, the legendary boss said: “As a manager I took a provincial club, Aberdeen, and beat Real Madrid in the (1983 European Cup Winners Cup) final in Gothenburg. “The players I inherited at Aberdeen and Manchester United were strong, were powerful, and it’s changed because it’s become a more protective life nowadays. I was very lucky to inherit the kind of players that I did in my earlier days.”Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In was in the early stages of production when Sir Alex suffered a brain hemorrhage in 2018.

Source: Express May 13, 2021 17:37 UTC