05 Jun 2016 20:46:06
Don't ask me how I know him (we met three years back at a charity fundraiser) but I was down the old Ship and Mitre pub this morning, must have clocked in around 8am and Sir Alex Ferguson popped in. Knowing him intimately as I do I offered to buy him a whiskey, on the rocks as he loves to drink that one does Big Al as he prefers to be called by his good friends.

He said I could buy him a drink just so long as he could share all of his knowledge of the tactical side of the beautiful game with me and I agreed (though later I wished I hadn't after he provided me with a 3000 page dossier) .

And so we sat there drinking the hard stuff (I suggested we have a drink in remembrance of Barry Proudfoot who was taken too soon and Alex said a few words) as time flew by, days turned into weeks, weeks into months and so forth. But one thing that particularly caught my attention was when Sir Alex told me the following:

"Oh that Danny Ings lad is a superb talent much more so than any of those scummy United youngsters who I so despise and certainly at present is better than that filthy Swede Zlatan has ever been. "

Anyway as time rattled along I came to the conclusion that other than this statement (which Jose Mourinho himself also relayed to me in the exact same words, don't ask how I know him) sir Alex was a fraud and I couldn't believe how he'd gotten so far.

I told him this and he became red faced and spat his chewing gum at me. It was only then that I realised I'd been talking to Susan Boyle for the past three years. Anyway we sang a little tune I dreamed a dream on the karaoke machine and parted ways.

1.) 05 Jun 2016
05 Jun 2016 21:07:47
Probably the most truthful story I've ever read on here to be fair. Cheers Pirlo.

2.) 05 Jun 2016
05 Jun 2016 21:32:04
Joe, Danny Ings is indeed a very good player. I was gutted about his injury as soon as Klopp started, and was delighted to see him get some game time against West Brom. Really looking forward to him playing and scoring goals for us next season.

3.) 05 Jun 2016
05 Jun 2016 21:52:09
Is Ed002 Susan Boyle? 😱.

4.) 06 Jun 2016
05 Jun 2016 21:56:50
Yes I agreed Jeff he is a good lad and a good player Sir Al - SuBo was right it seems.

Yes MK Scouser it seems there's a lot of tall tales and dibs on this particular site, however you will always be East Midlands Scouser to me. As they say at the Black Horse in Melton Mowbray you can take the boy out of the East Midlands but you can't take the East Midlands out of the boy. I've visited the establishment many a time and each time I've been in there the barmaid Tracy tells me the same thing. It feels like deja vu.

5.) 06 Jun 2016
06 Jun 2016 00:08:56
There's only one Big Al.

6.) 06 Jun 2016
06 Jun 2016 13:16:11
Wow big al I always admired you from afar believing you were a better man than I but now I see you are an ego maniac just like me, to think that there can only be one big al is truly selfish I think we should all allow names to be used for others. However as I said I went to nanda parbat simply to satisfy my ego so I cannot judge this is merely an observation and therapy as it can be traumatic when your heroes turn out to be different then the perfection you painted them as.