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A news item involving Alex Ferguson was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 9 May 2013.

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Documentaries

On 5th May, 2021, it was announced that a documentary on with a look at the life and legend of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson will be released on 21st May, 2021.

Manager of Month and Year awards

Sir Alex was actually awarded a further 6 manager of Month awards in his time at Manchester United in January 1989, January 1991, August 1991, September 1991, December 1991 and April 1993 as well as being named as Barclays Bank Manager of year for 92-93 season as well as winning a special award for Winning Cup Winners Cup in 1991 with United as mentioned in Rothman's Football Yearbook 1993-94 Pages 976 and 977 Editor Jack Rollin ISBN 0-7472-7895-4 Sir Alex was also named Scottish Football manager of the year 3 times in 1983, 1984 and 1985 as mentioned in Newspaper Article Three Score Fergie written by Alex Dowdalls in Daily Record {Glasgow, Scotland} on December 29th 200182.23.181.216 (talk) 14:00, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Personal Life chapter has a typo, to be accurate, this sentence:

Ferguson underwent an emergency surgery on 5 May 2018 after having a brain haemorrhage.

It should be brain hemorrhage instead of haemorrhage Wojciech Śmigowski (talk) 13:38, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

~~:Done. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 14:19, 12 March 2024 (UTC)~~[reply]

No it shouldn't. Its British English --FMSky (talk) 14:51, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Just checked it, I see. Wojciech Śmigowski (talk) 12:16, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Published works incomplete

For example it doesn't include A light in the north see https://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-North-Seven-Years-Aberdeen/dp/1851580077 95.146.10.18 (talk) 09:26, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]