Hilarious stories behind Sir Alex Ferguson's genius management with Gordon Strachan | BBC Sounds

Gordon Strachan joins Chris Kamara and Ben Shephard to reveal what made Sir Alex Ferguson a genius football manager and “the best sports psychologist the world has ever seen."
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[@richardcoomber925]

What a great guy is Gordon Strachan. And what a player

[@Harbaksh1234]

Wishing Chris Kamara well. Keep smiling, bro X

[@gorse9030]

What an entertaining 4 minutes that was, marvellous character and a great footballer.

[@ignatiuscheese6807]

Played in a five a side game once with Gordon Strachan on the other team. Not too long after he'd retired from playing. Couldn't get near him 😂 He was unbelievable and he was taking it easy on us too.

[@frandevereaux]

😂 could listen to him all day.

[@sajansingh361]

Gordon Strachan what a player he was

[@khurmiful]

Great stories, Gordon has a wicked sense of humour

[@arthurfnshelby4335]

Hearts missed out on the league, the next week they faced Aberdeen in the cup final. Sir Alex found out Hearts had employed a psychologist to get the league defeat out of their heads. Alex F had the Aberdeen team at Hampden before Hearts arrived and had all the Aberdeen players meet their opponents and say things like ‘ sorry you lost the league’, or ‘ maybe next time’. Stuff like that. Got into the Hearts players heads, beaten before the game started. Genius.

[@GoGetYourShinebox]

That's a good chess play. Maniacal winners like Sir Alex always try and get the edge no matter what lol

[@Mikeb1001]

The best motivational team talk he ever gave was Wembley 1996. Liverpool had them god awful cream suits. The message was simply ‘imagine losing to that lot!’

[@GoGetYourShinebox]

@@Mikeb1001 That still hurts me

[@user-dg8du2ep4s]

That's a fascinating story what a Clever man he knew how to play the mind tricks and he was a master at it Muhammad Ali was the same most fighters were beaten before they left the dressing room And Kevin Keegan swallowed the hook line sinker and fishing rod Bet Fergie was pissing himself that night having a few

[@gart9680]

Alec Ferguson was a legend in the world of football before Man Utd. The last manager to beat Real Madrid in a European final, Alex Ferguson's Aberdeen.

[@thomaseaves7567]

But Ferguson damaged Man Utd beyond belief, I believe he was engineered out of the management position, and so as to maintain his legacy for as long as possible, he abused his right to nominate his successor, the powers that be under estimated his lack of loyalty to the club and when he nominated his successor, David Moyes, who’ previous managerial positions were Preston and Everton, Ferguson chose him, knowing he would not eclipse Fergusons achievements, indeed, as anyone who had ever seen a senior manager, with an axe to grind when removed from office in any business, knows, he will have no conscience regarding the demise in the short term of the business, by observing the errors and failures of the incoming replacement. This I believe was Fergusons objective, in bringing in a rookie, to team that was a contestant for European domination. I remember the season he was given to boot, Man Utd were streets ahead of the opposition with numerous games to play, but b6 the end of the season, they wilted and only just managed to secure the title in the end, after some very poor performances, at the time, I worried that they may start the next season, as they finished the last one, ….and they did under Moyes. Fergusons legacy should be the ruination of the club that it still struggles with today…… SHAME ON HI …from a loyal outspoken Man Utd fan of over 50 years.

[@barrymckenna8547]

@@thomaseaves7567your talking shite

[@DMMJBSM]

@@thomaseaves7567 😂😂😂

[@thomaseaves7567]

@@DMMJBSM No denial then 🤓🤓

[@loxism72]

​@@thomaseaves7567 you're a muppet. You'd have no pedigree without that man.

[@stevehall5299]

Wee Strach ,what a character,went out drinking with Jimmy Johnstone when at Dundee ,his liver took a week to recover ,his didne speak to him for a week 😅😅

[@robbiethepict2783]

"There's only the one Gordon Strachan, and he is king of them all. When he's on the ball, we all shout for goal, coz Gordon's the king of them all"

[@user-gy5cx5db2i]

very underrated player- uk does not produce many world class players but strachan definitely was

[@theweejoke9850]

Always an Entertainer

[@rian202003]

Top man, top player.

[@myalfie]

Brilliant

[@chuckwagon7354]

I cannot believe I just found out Sir Alex Ferguson suffered from nerves!

[@aggie3344]

😂😂class

[@user-mt8kt7cx9h]

Bloody brilliant ❤ the old school stories, could listen to them all day long on Sunday.

[@grahamfleming8139]

Beckham thought he was one of the best managers he ever had .One of his temper tantrums and his shoe flew of and hit him on the head. Legend.

[@thunderjoy7250]

Top player Gordon was

[@marksullivan6329]

I saw Sir Alex at St Johnstones ground in the 80s.The Aberdeen players were walking with the public.......no trouble in sight.Little did I know he brought the glory back to Man Utd.

[@John414]

Alex Ferguson is the boss man. Everybody knows this.

[@clivet3252]

For anyone who's a wrestling fan I see the relationship between Gordon Strachan and Alex Ferguson as very similar to the one between Jesse Ventura and Vince McMahon.

[@ally11488]

McMahon is a monster who doesn't lose much sleep over wrestlers driven to early graves through chronic injury and drug abuse. How dare you compare a respected managerial genius to a conman.

[@clivet3252]

@@ally11488 what? You think Fergie is a saint? And who is he respected by? Certainly not by his most successful captain.

[@GoGetYourShinebox]

Alex Ferguson was a near psychopathic winner, like it was a problem almost lol. Same as someone like Michael Jordan who was addicted to winning and it would drive him nuts if he lost at anything even a card game

[@Geokinkladze]

If you play this at 0.75 speed you can actually understand what strachan says.

[@JJMcfee1970]

Oooot North Sea , fanatstic motivation against poor injuries .

[@BobVance529]

Why did they (everyone!) stop referring to him as Alec?

[@FaxanaduJohn]

Alec is a Scottish affectation.

[@BobVance529]

@@FaxanaduJohn yeah I get that but all of the British media used to refer to him as Alec. Seemed to stop when he got knighted.

[@clivet3252]

@@BobVance529 I've heard Gordon call him 'Sandy' as well.

[@sbc1t]

@@clivet3252 Sandy , short for Alexander in Scotland

[@clivet3252]

@@sbc1t I know

[@tubbybeaver4471]

great microphone positioning.....🙄

[@kevinfitz8516]

😂😂

[@petersyme7083]

Cassette tape is the reason they fell out

[@vivekjayaraj1484]

What's the reference to the North Sea, I wonder.

[@eleanorwalmsley635]

It's bloody freezing and a 100 times worse by night 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SAnd-pd1ou]

Proper football, not like today's disgraceful pre madonnas

[@user-mm6pb1eb1c]

Then strachan moved to leeds and they beat fergie to the title in 92 . Lmao

[@colloquialsoliloquy6391]

Still disappointed at Fergie for his petulance in the few years after his retirement. Felt like he was diminishing his players abilities,to make an already legendary achievement more impressive.

[@clivet3252]

That's what made him so successful.