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SIR ALEX FERGUSON WINS £50k ON WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE SHOW

Some would be wondering if retired Manchester United boss, Sir Alex Ferguson has suddenly gone cash-strapped or something but hey, the money doesn’t belong to him, it’s for a good cause – The Manchester United Foundation. It would be recalled that he won £32, 000 on the same show 9 years ago. The revered ex-Manager who’s now a director at the Old Trafford and a Manchester United fan, Eamonn Holmes won £50,000 on the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire show which held last night, December 19th, 2013. The pair failed at the 9th question and had their £75,000 winnings reduced to £50, 000.
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ANGRY READERS WRITE ALEX FERGUSON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY PUBLISHERS OVER FACTUAL ERRORS

Angry readers of Alex Ferguson’s best-selling autobiography have expressed their disappointment over a host of factual errors found in the 402-page book. 45 of them were identified. Hodder and Stoughton, publishers of the UK’s fastest-selling non-fiction book have admitted their fault and are even willing to reimburse one particular reader who remains unhappy.

Replying one of the couple of mails received on the matter, Jamie Hodder-Williams, CEO of the publishing outfit wrote thus, “We did in fact go through several stages of factchecking with this book, with a reading from within Manchester United as well as from a specialist football fact-checker. Although a very large number of corrections were made we plainly did not pick up everything. Possible corrections that have so far been helpfully pointed out are being checked and will be included in future reprints.

“I am sorry that you feel that your expenditure on the book was not worthwhile. If you would like to send

the book to me at our head office address, stating where you bought the book and at what price, we will

refund your expenditure and postage.”

Some of the errors found in the book include.

(1) Roy Keane’s spell at Manchester United was for 11 years instead of 12

(2) Ryan Giggs made his debut for Manchester United at age 16 instead of 17

(3) Rio Ferdinand triumphed against

Manchester City in the semi-final second leg (of the Carling Cup) in 2009 at Old Trafford’ when the year was actually 2010.

Culled from dailymail

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HOT CAKE! ALEX FERGUSON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY BREAKS RECORD

To prove that the iconic Sir Alex Ferguson still lives in the heart of his teeming fans inspite of the fact that he walked away from the dugout not too long ago, fans are scrambling to buy his latest published work, to have a peep into the workings of his heart while he took charge of the Red Devils.
The most intriguing part of it is, the autobiography has emerged the fastest-selling non-fiction book in the UK. “My Autobiography” which goes for £25 has sold 115,547 copies, breaking Delia Smith’s How To Cook: Book Two’s record of 112,000 copies in a week. This is the biggest sales ever recorded since 1998.
Alex Ferguson’s autobiography
TOP FIVE BEST SELLERS
(1) Sir Alex Ferguson – My Autobiography – 115,547
(2) Delia Smith – How to Cook – book two – 112,000
(3) Tony Blair – A Journey – 92,000
(4) David Beckham – My Side – 86,000
(5) Paul Burrell – A Royal Duty – 77,000
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BALLON D'OR SHORTLIST FOR WORLD'S BEST PLAYER AND COACH OF THE YEAR 2012/2013 UNVEILED

Another Ballon d’Or shortlist has been drawn up. Trust me, it’s going to be as fierce as ever. Unlike the past editions where few or no Premier League players get nominations, 5 EPL players are included in the 23-man shortlist. The Coach of the year category contains some really prominent names, the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho and Del Bosque are most people’s favourites.

Anyways, I see either Lionel Messi, who’s clinched the award four consecutive times winning the 5th or Frank Ribery who inspired his club, Bayern Munich to win the Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup and was later named

UEFA’s best player in Europe for the

2012-13 season to nab it. The winner will be unveiled on January 13 in Zurich.

NOMINEES

(1) Gareth Bale (Real Madrid/Wales)

(2) Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich/Germany)

(3) Thomas Muller (B Munich/Germany)

(4) Manuel Neuer (B Munich/Germany)

(5) Bastian Schweinsteiger (B Munich/

Germany)

(6) Mesut Ozil (Arsenal/Germany)

(7) Robin van Persie (Man United/Netherlands)

(8) Arjen Robben (B Munich/Netherlands)

(9) Edinson Cavani (PSG/Uruguay)

(10) Luis Suarez (Liverpool/Uruguay)

(11) Andres Iniesta (Barcelona/Spain)

(12) Xavi (Barcelona/Spain)

(13) Neymar (Barcelona/Brazil)

(14) Thiago Silva (PSG/Brazil)

(15) Radamel Falcao (Monaco/Colombia

(16) Andrea Pirlo (Juventus/Italy)

(17) Frank Ribery (B Munich/France)

(18) Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid/Portugal

(19) Eden Hazard (Chelsea/Belgium)

(20) Zlatan Ibrahimovic (PSG/ Sweden)

(21) Robert Lewandowski (Dortmund/

Poland)

(22) Lionel Messi (Barcelona/ Argentina)

(23) Yaya Toure (Manchester City/Ivory

Coast)

COACH OF THE YEAR

(1) Carlo Ancelotti (Real Madrid)

(2) Rafael Benitez (Napoli),

(3) Antonio Conte (Juventus)

(4) Vicente Del Bosque (Spain)

(5) Sir Alex Ferguson (ex-Manchester United)

(6) Jupp Heynckes (ex-Bayern Munich) (7) Jurgen Klopp (Borussia Dortmund)

(8) Jose Mourinho (Chelsea)

(9) Luiz Felipe Scolari (Brazil)

(10) Arsene Wenger (Arsenal)

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"HE WOULD COMMAND A TOP WHACK" ALEX FERGUSON WANTED IN AUSTRALIAN TEAM

 

After spending 26 years as Manchester United, 71 year-old Alex Ferguson is still a hot cake even in retirement. A trillion and one Man U players/fans wish they can turn back the hands of time and none would deny the absence of ex Old Trafford boss isn’t felt.
Ex Man U goalkeeper, Mark Bosnich is itching to have Sir Alex Ferguson as the coach of Australian team, considering his tractrackrecord /managerial success, they particularly want him to lead the team to next year’s World Cup. Their coach was recently red-carded after The Socceroos’ consecutive defeats against Brazil and France.

“We’ve been throwing around a lot of names but there’s one person that I haven’t heard mentioned – even though I’ve got more reason than anyone not to suggest him, I’m just being honest and have had experience under him, so know what he’s like – it is Sir Alex Ferguson.
That name hasn’t been put about, but we need someone of that ilk. He would command a top whack, but in life, and especially in sport, you get what you pay for. If you want the very best, you’re going to have to pay for the best.”

 

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PHOTO: DID SIR ALEX FERGUSON REPLY CARLOS TEVEZ?

We all agree Manchester City attacker Carlos Tevez went too far with his 'RIP Fergie' placard targetted at spiting Sir Alex ferguson, Manchester united coach over the club's unexpected loss. That was absolutely disrespectful and uncalled for. But he apologized, yeah after so much pressure he said,
"I got carried away in d excitement of the moment and I didn't mean to disrespect Sir Alex who I admire as a Manager".

But today I came in contact with this picture and I'm still not sure if it was a graphics designer job or Sir Alex ferguson actually displayed this, "Fuck Off You Ugly little Shit".

If he did…Was it necessary?

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WORLD'S 10 HIGHEST PAID FOOTBALL MANAGERS

Here is goal.com‘s list of 10 football Managers and their pay-packets per year.

1) Jose Mourinho/Real Madrid-£11.2m a year
2) Diego Maradonna/Al Wasl-£9.9m
3) Pep Guardiola/Barcelona- £8.7m
4) Fabio Capello/England-£6m
5) Arsene Wenger/Arsenal-£6m
6) Carlo Ancelotti/Paris Saint Germain-£4.9m
7) Luiz Felipe Scolari/Palmeiras-£4.4m
8) Andre Villas-Boas/Chelsea- £4.3m
9) Sir Alex Ferguson/Man. United- £4m
10) Roberto Mancini/Man. City-£3.8m

If I were to read most minds, some coaches should earn better than their current pay. Sir Alex Ferguson, I understand is signing a new contract which is expected to upgrade his salary to £6.5m a year and a £1m bonus thus making him Britain’s fourth highest paid manager.

Source: Goal.com

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BALLON D'OR: LIONEL MESSI CLAIMS FOURTH PLACE IN HISTORY

The 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or awards held at Zurich, Switzerland saw humble and talented Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi win the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the third consecutive time, polling 47.88 of the votes, ahead of Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo (21.6)%) and Barcelona's Xavi (9.23%). 
24 year-old Leo as fondly called is the fourth person in history to win 3 Ballon d'Or trophies after Cruyff, Platini and Van Basten.
These awards were decided after a poll in which the captains and head coaches of the men's (for the two men's football awards) and women's (for the two women's football awards) national teams, as well as international media representatives selected by French football magazine France Football, voted for candidates in each of the four categories. Each group's votes represented one third of the final result. 
Speaking on the honour, the Argentine said, "It's a huge honour. I want to share this award with the people that voted for me and with my teammates. I'm very proud to have won the trophy three times, especially one after the other. It's hard to win one, let alone three."

List of winners
1) FIFA Ballon d'Or-Lionel Messi
2) Presidential award-Sir Alex Ferguson
3) FIFA Coach of the year award (Men's football)- Pep Guardiola
4) FIFA's Coach of the year award (Women's football)-Norio Sasaki
5) Best Goal of 2011-Neymar
6) Best Female player of 2011-Homare Sawa
7) Fairplay award-Japanese Football Association

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EVA, WAJE, VIXEN, TOOLZ, DAMI, OC, PRAISE&ALEX ON COMPLETE FASHION MAGAZINE COVER



Quintessential gentlemen and the glam queens

Themed the three Quintessential gentlemen and the glam queens, the Complete Fashion magazine looks extremely fabulous with Eva, Toolz, Waje, Vixen, Dami, the guys:OC, Praise and Alex on the cover page. I can imagine what the content would look like. What do you think about the combo? The guys and the ladies maintained so much cool and elegance. One phrase: A touch of glamour.

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ITS END OF THE SEASON FOR NEMANJA VIDIC

Nemanja Vidic

Manchester United centre back, Nemanj Vidic will no longer participate in the rest of the season’s matches owing to a ligament injury.
The 30year old player who got knocked down by Marco Streller as the club crashed out of the Champion’s league against Basel would soon be operated.
Manchester United coach, Alex Ferguson described the situation as bad news, “it is not expected but still bad news, unfortunately he’s out of the season, he sees the specialist on Monday to map out the programme of when he has the operation. It won’t be immediate because we have to let the swelling come down. It is a bit of a blow.”

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