Sir Alex Ferguson Tribute Thread
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This is kind of the same feeling I had when Keano left, when Best died and I do not like it one bit.
It will take time to get over but feck.. The end of a glorious era and a fully fully deserved retirement for Fergie. Sir Alex Ferguson you absolute legend of the game.. Will be remembered as long as football is being played on planet earth long after we're dead and buried.
Thank you.
Now begins the rebuilding process of the piece of my heart that has just been ripped out.
It will take time to get over but feck.. The end of a glorious era and a fully fully deserved retirement for Fergie. Sir Alex Ferguson you absolute legend of the game.. Will be remembered as long as football is being played on planet earth long after we're dead and buried.
Thank you.
Now begins the rebuilding process of the piece of my heart that has just been ripped out.
There is nothing that I can write that would do this great man justice.
Thank you, Sir Alex, for everything.
Thank you, Sir Alex, for everything.
Can't put in words how sad I feel 
I don't know about United but with Sir Alex in charge and still can't believe there'll be someone else by touchline next season.
Because of Sir Alex I've witnessed more great moments in life of a football club in 15,16 years I've been supporting United than most people see in their lifetime supporting some club.
Thanks for everyting Sir Alex, hope you'll enjoy your retirement as much as you did leading United do all the success.
I don't know about United but with Sir Alex in charge and still can't believe there'll be someone else by touchline next season.Because of Sir Alex I've witnessed more great moments in life of a football club in 15,16 years I've been supporting United than most people see in their lifetime supporting some club.
Thanks for everyting Sir Alex, hope you'll enjoy your retirement as much as you did leading United do all the success.
He has retired with one of the two principle trophies won in fine fashion and that seized back City.
Sir Alex can justifiably claim to have overcome all challengers to his pre-eminence and left his successor with a promising and growing team once again.
All respect and thanks.
Sir Alex can justifiably claim to have overcome all challengers to his pre-eminence and left his successor with a promising and growing team once again.
All respect and thanks.
Everyone at #WHUFC would like to wish Sir Alex Ferguson a very happy retirement following 26 successful years as Manchester United manager
- West Ham United FC Official on their Twitter.
- West Ham United FC Official on their Twitter.
Sad day.
No one can replace Fergie. We won't be that lucky twice.
No one can replace Fergie. We won't be that lucky twice.
Everyone at Arsenal wishes Sir Alex Ferguson health and happiness following the announcement of his retirement as Manchester United manager
- Arsenal on their official Twitter.
- Arsenal on their official Twitter.
Sad day.
No one can replace Fergie. We won't be that lucky twice.
We already have been - We had Sir Matt !!
Can't think of anything that comes close to doing him justice - simply the best ever.
Thank you
Thank you
David Cameron has just tweeted "Sir Alex Ferguson’s achievement at #MUFC has been exceptional. Hopefully his retirement will make life a little easier for my team #AVFC"
In a world where platitudes are handed out without thought or care Sir Alex has earned each and every one of his through hard work, determination and a hell of a lot of know how. He has embodied a football club, an institution and a family for 27 years and we're the lucky ones that have had the chance to bask in it and all it has brought, we will move on but it will be tough, for many he is all we've known. Put your feet up, you deserve it.
Last post my arse!
I know Sir Alex reads the cafe, so I'd just like to say a massive extended Thank You....
Thanks for the 13 league titles.
Thanks for the 2 European Cups
Thanks for the 5 FA Cups.
Thanks for the 4 League Cups.
Thanks for the Cup Winners Cup.
Thanks for the FIFA Club Cup.
Thanks for the Intercontinental Cup.
Thanks for all the great players and great games.
Thanks for Fergie Time.
Thanks for verbally burying all the piped up managers who thought they could go toe to toe with you (I particularly liked your Keegan, Benitez and Pardew material)
Thanks for fueling all the Scouse conspiracy theorists, was a blast!
Thanks for sticking by the club, especially through the Glazer years, we know you bit your tongue, you didn't want anarchy at the club and thanks for that.
Thanks for providing mega lolz with your team selections in your latter years, that team picked at Leeds in the League Cup was one of your finest moments.
Thanks for telling Geoff Shreeves "well done" for years for the prestigious honour of being able to interview you.
Thanks for "There's no question about it".
Thanks for WUMMING the cafe this season, Giggs central midfield, haha, you got us there.
Thanks for blanking the BBC for years, again, strong comedic material.
Thanks for your rubbish celebration jiggle.
Thanks for taking the piss out of Phil Dowd for being fat and for the fat fecker to then proceed in becoming even more fat as the months went on.
Most of all Thanks for managing Manchester United.
I know Sir Alex reads the cafe, so I'd just like to say a massive extended Thank You....
Thanks for the 13 league titles.
Thanks for the 2 European Cups
Thanks for the 5 FA Cups.
Thanks for the 4 League Cups.
Thanks for the Cup Winners Cup.
Thanks for the FIFA Club Cup.
Thanks for the Intercontinental Cup.
Thanks for all the great players and great games.
Thanks for Fergie Time.
Thanks for verbally burying all the piped up managers who thought they could go toe to toe with you (I particularly liked your Keegan, Benitez and Pardew material)
Thanks for fueling all the Scouse conspiracy theorists, was a blast!
Thanks for sticking by the club, especially through the Glazer years, we know you bit your tongue, you didn't want anarchy at the club and thanks for that.
Thanks for providing mega lolz with your team selections in your latter years, that team picked at Leeds in the League Cup was one of your finest moments.
Thanks for telling Geoff Shreeves "well done" for years for the prestigious honour of being able to interview you.
Thanks for "There's no question about it".
Thanks for WUMMING the cafe this season, Giggs central midfield, haha, you got us there.
Thanks for blanking the BBC for years, again, strong comedic material.
Thanks for your rubbish celebration jiggle.
Thanks for taking the piss out of Phil Dowd for being fat and for the fat fecker to then proceed in becoming even more fat as the months went on.
Most of all Thanks for managing Manchester United.
When they cut to the stands after we win/lose it'll be Fergie now standing next to Bobby, looking on. Kind of feels like Yoda should be there too...
I propose the Club to be renamed SAF United.
Legend of the game. Definitely the best manager I have seen since watching football.
Football won't be the same without a character like him.
Neither will Wrigley's bank account.
Football won't be the same without a character like him.
Neither will Wrigley's bank account.
That always makes me smile!
I think I've already told the story of how I came to support United on this board. The 1998 world cup in France awoke my passion for football, I remember everyone going crazy in the country. I've never really felt French so I didn't especially join in the hysteria, but I started to love the sport (I was still pretty young). At that time, very little football was shown on TV, and during the following season, TF1 (the major broadcaster over here) started to show Utd's Champions League push, and one of the games I remember the most clearly is the return game against Juve, and of course the final. I came to love the club, the craziness about it and its players. That, and a certain person on the touchlines, a guy who looked annoyed a lot of the time and who apparently liked to point to his watch.
I was too young to realize at the time exactly how important this person was for the team I supported, the club and football in general. However, during the years that followed, as I continued to follow the adventures of these Red Devils, I started to comprehend just how immense that man was and what he symbolized. Fighting spirit. Never say die. Valour. Courage. Wit. Intelligence. But what defines the man more than anything in my mind is his adaptability. That he could achieve such a level of excellence for so long, that he would be able to come to grasps with all the new trends (the star players, the agents, the tactics, all of it) of the sport and never seem like an old man at odds with what's going on is baffling. Intelligence is often defined as "the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations". Who's going to deny the guy was a genius?
The day we've all dreaded would come has finally come, and as usual with this mischievous man, it took us all by surprise. A few days earlier, you could hear him talk about how the future was bright, how he was planning on going nowhere and telling us that he could be here for a decade! That's obviously not to be.
This is a sad day for us, a day that we will all remember for ages and that will symbolize the beginning of a new era for the club we love so much. But today, rather than looking towards the future and indulging in muppet frenzy, I want to thank the man for everything he's given us.
Sir Alex, thank you for your 26 years at the club. Thank you for your temper, your hair-drying, your boot-throwing, your media-banning, your exaggerating. Thank you for the good times, the victories, the trophies, the batterings, the tense victories, the surprises, the baffling team selections and for making us all eat our words time after time. Thank you for making me love this team so much, for instilling within the club a sense of invulnerability, strength and excellence that only a man of your stature could achieve.
You are the greatest manager in the history of the game, and it has been an honour seeing you on the side of the pitch for so long. For all this, once again, and for the last time, thank you.
I was too young to realize at the time exactly how important this person was for the team I supported, the club and football in general. However, during the years that followed, as I continued to follow the adventures of these Red Devils, I started to comprehend just how immense that man was and what he symbolized. Fighting spirit. Never say die. Valour. Courage. Wit. Intelligence. But what defines the man more than anything in my mind is his adaptability. That he could achieve such a level of excellence for so long, that he would be able to come to grasps with all the new trends (the star players, the agents, the tactics, all of it) of the sport and never seem like an old man at odds with what's going on is baffling. Intelligence is often defined as "the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations". Who's going to deny the guy was a genius?
The day we've all dreaded would come has finally come, and as usual with this mischievous man, it took us all by surprise. A few days earlier, you could hear him talk about how the future was bright, how he was planning on going nowhere and telling us that he could be here for a decade! That's obviously not to be.
This is a sad day for us, a day that we will all remember for ages and that will symbolize the beginning of a new era for the club we love so much. But today, rather than looking towards the future and indulging in muppet frenzy, I want to thank the man for everything he's given us.
Sir Alex, thank you for your 26 years at the club. Thank you for your temper, your hair-drying, your boot-throwing, your media-banning, your exaggerating. Thank you for the good times, the victories, the trophies, the batterings, the tense victories, the surprises, the baffling team selections and for making us all eat our words time after time. Thank you for making me love this team so much, for instilling within the club a sense of invulnerability, strength and excellence that only a man of your stature could achieve.
You are the greatest manager in the history of the game, and it has been an honour seeing you on the side of the pitch for so long. For all this, once again, and for the last time, thank you.
Funny but I know exactly what you mean.
Seconded.
Dion Dublin @DionDublinsDube 1h
Thanks Gaffa for the chance you gave me back in 1992 to play for the BIGGEST club in the world & grace OT as a Man United player #indebted
Thanks Gaffa for the chance you gave me back in 1992 to play for the BIGGEST club in the world & grace OT as a Man United player #indebted
Nice one Dubs.
Very true.
What a giant Fergie has been though. And how privileged we as fans to live under the shadow of greatness.
The best ever. Enjoy your retirement, you deserve a rest.
I haven't posted on the Caff for sometime but the news this morning forced me to contribute to this and other threads here
Thanks SAF for a 26 year rollercoaster of staggering proportions - after Busby I thought we were in trouble but you came along and more great history was forged by you with our great Club.
Thanks SAF for a 26 year rollercoaster of staggering proportions - after Busby I thought we were in trouble but you came along and more great history was forged by you with our great Club.
Norman Whiteside @NormanWhiteside 45s
Sir Alex. Thank you for all the memories and just being you
Sir Alex. Thank you for all the memories and just being you
Absolutely gutted. I feel sick.
Thanks Sir Alex you are a true legend who will be largely missed.
Thanks Sir Alex you are a true legend who will be largely missed.
I feel empty. I just want to curl up in bed and cry for a month.
Everything about Fergie screams Manchester United, he's become the club and the club has become him. No amount of words can even begin to describe the effect the man's had on this club.
Quite simply put he's been the greatest manager football has ever seen, and will ever see.
Everything about Fergie screams Manchester United, he's become the club and the club has become him. No amount of words can even begin to describe the effect the man's had on this club.
Quite simply put he's been the greatest manager football has ever seen, and will ever see.
"What a man and great that it has ended on his terms.
"What a privilege to have played under arguably the best manager the world has ever seen. His record will surely never be eclipsed."
Michael Owen.
"What a privilege to have played under arguably the best manager the world has ever seen. His record will surely never be eclipsed."
Michael Owen.
Hope your horses die so you reconsider retirement boss.
Ruud van Nistelrooy @RvN1776 1m
2001-2006, 219 games,150 goals under the most successful manager in football history. It was a unique privilege. #SAF
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2001-2006, 219 games,150 goals under the most successful manager in football history. It was a unique privilege. #SAF
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Cheers bud, needed that to make me laugh
Thank you Sir Alex. Your legacy is more than the trophies, the stand and the statue.
Football Funnys @FootballFunnys 3m
Sir Alex Ferguson actually retired in 2002. Since then we've been in Fergie Time.
Sir Alex Ferguson actually retired in 2002. Since then we've been in Fergie Time.
Bojan Djordjic @BojanDjordjic7
Will never forget mornings at Carrington in Sir Alex office. He used to show us in the youth team videos of him elbowing defenders! #legend
Will never forget mornings at Carrington in Sir Alex office. He used to show us in the youth team videos of him elbowing defenders! #legend
All those moments, players, trophies, everything. He gave us everything for a quarter of a century, I can't thank him enough, I might write him a very heartfelt letter or something but it's nigh on impossible to coherently convey how grateful I am.
Is it possible to rename all the stands at OT to "Sir Alex Ferguson Stand" ?
Official LFC @OfficialLFC 4m
RODGERS: "It's a shame I won't be able to pit my wits against Sir Alex in a title battle next season."
RODGERS: "It's a shame I won't be able to pit my wits against Sir Alex in a title battle next season."
Best Manager there's ever been nor ever will be & a father-figure to all of us that grew up with him. He wont be goin anywhere, so i'm alot happier knowing that, than i would if he just left the club altogether.
Fergie will take on the Sir Matt & Bobby Charlton role when Fergie came to the club & to nurture the new manager, so it bodes well.
The end of an era & the beginning of another one is the way we should all look at it. No person is bigger than the club, but Fergie is as close to it than anything we'll ever see!
Glory glory Man United & the Reds go marching on, on, on....
Thank you Fergie & here's to even more success with your guidance to the new Manager also.
Fergie = Mr Manchester United
Fergie will take on the Sir Matt & Bobby Charlton role when Fergie came to the club & to nurture the new manager, so it bodes well.
The end of an era & the beginning of another one is the way we should all look at it. No person is bigger than the club, but Fergie is as close to it than anything we'll ever see!
Glory glory Man United & the Reds go marching on, on, on....
Thank you Fergie & here's to even more success with your guidance to the new Manager also.
Fergie = Mr Manchester United