East Stirlingshire

Sir Alex Ferguson spent the best part of the last four decades as a manager of football clubs in Britain. The 71-year old Scotsman kicked off his managerial career with East Stirlingshire in 1974 before moving on to St Mirren in the same year. Four ...

It has been almost a 40-year journey from East Stirling to a 13th title at Old Trafford, via St. Mirren, breaking Celtic and Rangers' dominance with Aberdeen and a brief spell in charge of Scotland. And the 71-year-old admits the managerial world he ...

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A son of a ship-builder from Govan in Scotland and a top player in his native country from 1957-74, Ferguson entered management with East Stirlingshire in 1974. ... It doesn't always happen in football but today it did, and I'm glad that it did.” Just ...

Ferguson also warned young managers to learn their trade at the lower levels of football if they want to make it to the top and that he was against "fast-tracking" of players into top coaching jobs. The outgoing Manchester United boss started his ...

SIR Alex Ferguson has warned young managers to learn their trade at the lower levels of football if they want to make it to the top. Ferguson - named LMA manager of the year for an unprecedented fourth time in London last night, said he was against the ...

Tumblr · Pinterest · Reddit · Digg · FarkIt · StumbleUpon. WEST BROMWICH, England — After 1,500 matches in charge of Manchester United, Alex Ferguson was denied a final victory Sunday to cap the most successful managerial career in British football ...

He took time to consider what had changed in the 39 years he has managed in a career that has taken him from East Stirlingshire to St Mirren to Aberdeen before his appointment at United in 1986. "Thirty nine years as a manager, 1974 – going from that ...