Steve Archibald Barcelona 1984 1988

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Cup Winners Cup Final 1982 1983 Aberdeen Real Madrid

"The Fergie's Furies" 

Finale 11 Mai 83

Ullevi Stadium Goteborg

  Aberdeen opened up 1982-83 with a visit from Ipswich for Drew Jarvie's testimonial, from which Miller was conspicuously absent. Eventually a new deal was thrashed out and he remained with the club, and the fact that Miller opted to stay at Pittodrie spoke volumes about the changing balance of power in Scottish football. The Dons were faced with a fixture headache almost at once, when they drew the short straw and had to play a preliminary Cup-Winners' Cup-tie against Sion of Switzerland in August. Having to play in Europe so early was hardly ideal, but the Dons surged out of the traps, hitting the luckless Swiss for seven at Pittodrie. The return in a picturesque Alpine setting was little more than a holiday for the Dons.

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  Sir Alex Ferguson had to walk a long, hard road to become the most successful Manchester United manager of all time. He was born in Glasgow's shipbuilding district of Govan in 1941 and, after leaving school the teenage Ferguson joined the tens of thousands of men who laboured in the yards, as an apprentice welder. But the boy was also turning out for Glasgow's famous amateur club, Queen's Park, and his prowess as a centre-forward outshone his ability with a welder': torch, and he was soon signed on as a professional by Perth's St Johnstone in 1960. After four years there he was snapped up by Dunfermline Athletic, who were at the time one of Scotland's elite dubs. But a boyhood dream came true in 1967 when Rangers, the team he had supported all his life, paid £65,000 to take him to Ibrox. The move did not work out well. Ferguson gained a reputation for truculence, a trait which landed him in trouble with team-mates, opponents, referees and the Rangers management. He was showing early signs of the single-mindedness that would make him such a formidable manager, but at this stage his intransigence saw him transferredto Falkirk, where he had a taste of coaching, and later to Ayr United. Ferguson took his first steps as a fledgling manager at East Stirling in July 1974, but after making an early impact there he was given the chance to manage a bigger club, St Mirren, in Paisley on the outskirts of Glasgow. 

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Alex Ferguson A Knight To Remember

 With 24 years as manager of Manchester United, he is the longest serving manager in their history after overtaking Sir Matt Busby's record on 19 December 2010. His tenure is also the longest of all the current League managers. During this time, Ferguson has won many awards and holds many records including winning Manager of the Year  most times in British football history. In 2008, he became the third British manager to win the European Cup on more than one occasion. He was knighted in 1999 for his services to the game and also holds the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen. Ferguson joined Aberdeen as manager in June 1978, replacing Billy McNeill who had only managed the club for one season before he was offered the chance to manage Celtic. Ferguson was appointed manager at Old Trafford on 6 November 1986. He was initially worried that many of the players, such as Norman Whiteside, Paul McGrath and Bryan Robson  were drinking too much and was "depressed" by their level of fitness, but he managed to increase the players' discipline and United climbed up the table to finish the season in 11th place, having been 21st (second from bottom) when he took over.

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16e de Finale Retour

Anfield Road
5 Novembre 1980

History records this tie as the only ever meeting of those two great managers Bob Paisley and Sir Alex Ferguson. Aberdeen boasted the talents of Miller, McLeish, Leighton and a fiery young red head called Strachan and had managed to break the Old Firm stranglehold on Scottish football.  With the away goal in the bag the Reds sat about the second leg in confidence. It took some thirty eight minutes though before the Reds opened up their account thanks to a Willie Miller own goal. Phil Neal swept one home before half time as well and the tie was all but over. Dalglish and Hansen completed a 4-0 rout which meant the Reds had won far more easily than they had planned when the draw had been made.

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