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Documentaries[edit]

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.

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In March 2023 Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger became the first ever managers to be inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame.^[1] Chunkycracker (talk) 12:08, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: Where do you want to do it? Lightoil (talk) 13:31, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://7sport.net/ca/news/sir-alex-ferguson-and-arsene-wenger-inducted-into-pl-hall-of-fame/

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UEFA Champions League: 1998–99, 2007–08;[282] runner-up: 2008–09[283], runner-up: 2010–11[284] PrivateJTJokerDavisJr (talk) 16:39, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 16:54, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Manager of Month and Year awards[edit]

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]

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