Yeah,sad day. I believe,he's not feeling very well. And that makes me sad. Great Fergie!

Never heard of him.

Sir Alex,

bravo for everything and do not ever come back!

Liverpool loving Serbs :)

I'm Newcastle fan but Sir Alex is the legend. I hear David Moyes replace him.

Moyes is the new Man at ManU
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22453895

Well, old Moyes needed a nice club to spend the twilight of his career in. The fire left him a few years back, but he will still do ok and keep the Reds mostly out of the relegation fight. I wish him well.

He was good but was he as good as Calvin Coolidge?
-sbyvl

As a mark of respect, eight minutes of extra time will be added to every Premier League game next week.

The most amazing manager in football* (* - not soccer).

"My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their fucking perch. And you can print that."

A great manager (not the greatest, that goes to Clough for me). Moyes will do a good job following him

Clough vs Ferguson ...... how was Clough better?

@NigeeBaby: Clough was one of the few managers crowned champs with different teams, not mentioning in the space of five years he reached the top of Europe twice in a row with Nottingham who was playing in second Division when he was appointed.
btw, 27 years on the same bench is far from being a record, I guess still held by AJ Auxerre's Guy Roux.
A suggested book: "The Damned Utd" by D. Peace, even tough is not dealing with ManU, but Leeds

Manchester United will be paying tribute to Sir Alex at this weekend's game. They are asking all fans to observe a minute's applause in the 99th minute of the game.

@antonio - I've learnt never to argue with idiots, Clough lasted 44 days at Leeds, he was a pathetic disaster

Chapeau, this is a good way to address to an user that answered politely and raised some other issues.
Yes, Clough was a disaster at Leeds, but he was brilliant at Derby County and Notthingham Forest.
IMHO it's far too easy to win everything possible when you get the best worldwide players and one of the richest budget ever, it's much difficult to reach the top with the underdogs.

I also put in also a suggested lecture that has little to do with Clough's outcomes, and it's actually dealing with his controversial passage at Leeds. But it's an excellent booking over football.
If all this allows you to call me an idiot, I guess I have to better check what are friendly approaches and rules of engagement in this forum.

@antonio - it is idiotic to compare the loud-mouthed egotistical alcoholic with the great Sir Alex Ferguson. Please don't let your ego get in the way of a good debate.
I think I win this one......

Yes, you scored twice on the "insulting" pitch.
You definetely won that one.

Please do not discuss ongoing lives in the forum

I do not know that user IRL, and I am wondering why he has to be so aggressive and insulting when disagrees with someone else opinion.

@ Nigee "to compare the loud-mouthed egotistical alcoholic (Cloughy) with the great Sir Alex Ferguson" isn't that the very reason both are so successful? :)

@Jas - NO, it is a ridiculous comparison

Ok! I appreciate the both of them :)

The Damned is a great movie - Martin Sheen spitting yet again

Ahhh, just watched forest beating malmo 1-0 in 1979, a great team of scots, martin o'neill (dropped injured), and some englishmen (viv anderson, the first black footballer to play for eng-ger-land), now for forest v hamburg/keegan back-to-back lol also 1-0 in 1980 Cloughy looks so like Martin Sheen :p

If you are interested in a great football from that time I suggest to take a look at "Hajduk Split vs Hamburger Sport Verein from 19.03.1980,1/4 final of the E.C.C. Or Totenham vs Hajduk in the semifinal of the Uefa Cup 1967.

Sorry - 1967 was Totenham - Hajduk in The Cup Winners Cup. Uefa Cup Totenham - Hajduk was in 1984.

I saw Bayern Munich beat Barcelona 7-0 over two legs, that has to go down as one of the best results ever in European football.

I saw this:

Split, 27.I 1980. – Stadium „ Poljud ". Attendances 30. 000 :
„Hajduk“ – „Manchester United“ 6:0 (3:0).
„HAJDUK“: Budinčević 8, Primorac 7,5, Krstičević 7, Luketin 8, Zoran Vujović 8,5, Rožić 7, Zlatko Vujović 9 (Mamić 6,5), Mužinić 7, Cukrov 7,5, Đorđević 7 (Bogdanović 6,5), Šurjak 7,5 (Maričić 6,5)
„MANCHESTER UNITED“: Bailey 5, Nicholl 5,5, Houston 5,5 (Jovanović 6,5), MC Illroy 6,5, Mc Gueen 6, Buchan 5, Coppel 5,5, Wilkins 5,5, Jordan 7,5, Maccari 7, Thomas 5,5 (Grimes 6).

Goalscorers: Primorac 22., 58. min., Krstičević 33, Mužinić 40, Zlatko Vujović 57. Bogdanović 81.

I don't know, Nigee, it was a good result, but nowhere near as incredible as the 2005 Champions League final.

What a shit team we had then .... that brings back memories, Ashley Grimes, Butch Wilkins, Stewart Houston, Mickey Thomas ..... oh dear !!

How can we never see Hadjuk in European competitions nowadays, have they split?

Look out, there's a Scouser about ......

We are poor now.I mean realy poor,bancrupcy. The last success was in 1995,1/4 finals of the Champions League against Ayax (the Champion after). We hardly manage to enter the Uefa Cup group stage occasionaly since.

Where has all the money gone?

Oh no Nigee! Sammy, Gordon, Stevie, Butch, Joe and Lou were ace, c'mon! Maybe not grimes and bailey ;)

Hadjuk Split, oh for the olden days ;)

Butch, we called him 'The Crab', he was good for Chelsea, not United.
McIlroy was a Ledge, as was Lou, Gordon, JoeJ, Stevie C & Buchan

Jimmy Nicholl should have been in the Bay City Rollers

We never had money,we only had Josip Broz Tito,do you know him?

Tito, is he new?

No,hi died 1980.

What position did he play?

Poor leader but decent right back.

Haha agree about Jimmy & BCRs but what's a "ledge"?

ledge = Legend

Watching forest v hamburg I've noticed a physical similarity between keegan and maradona, that's where it ends, also keegan didn't use his hands against shilton!

Legend eh, I like it :)

oh, was Maradona a paedophile as well ??

I must be well out of date on that one!!

@2WL what do you know about his leadership?