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I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

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Alex Ferguson
Age: 82
Born: 1941
Born: December 31
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Autobiographer
Manager
Alexander Chapman Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson
Privileged
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Maintain
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United
Many
Trying
Years
Matt

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Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.
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Everywhere I go the coaches all tell me that Scholsey is the player they admire. But if they think they'll get him they're wasting their time! Paul is a Manc lad pure and simple. He loves the club and there's no chance of him leaving here. If ever he decided to go there would be a stampede, but he won't be going, he's here for life.
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We have to try to beat Everyone.
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I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.
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