If Sir Alex Ferguson sticks to his plan, he should be retiring as Manchester United manager in 2010/2011, and presumably taking up another role within the club.
However, Fergie might be convinced to take on another job. PM Gordon Brown, who originates from Fergie’s home town, has confirmed that Seb Coe, the chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, has asked our manager to take charge of the 2010 Team GB football team.
“When the Olympics are held in Britain and there’s a football tournament where the final is going to be in Britain they want us to have a team in the competition,” Brown said. “At the moment in Beijing we don’t have a team. No men’s team and no women’s team. When it comes to London I think it’s important that there is a team. So I’ve been talking to Fifa, The Football Association and Sepp Blatter and he’s going to try and make it possible for us to have a team at the Olympics. Then we’ll talk to the other football associations and we’ll see who wants to be part of this and maybe we’ll get a manager that everybody is happy with. I know Sir Alex Ferguson has been approached by Seb Coe. These are things that are possible. Alex Ferguson has got to be formally approached of course.”
Whilst I’d love to see Fergie successful on another front, I don’t want him to run the risk of taking this on, the players performing woefully (as they tend to do, with none of the countries in Great Britain making it to the recent Euros) and that reflecting on Fergie.
I want his to career to end on a high and the chances of that happening would be slim if he managed Team GB.
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HaHaHa, even a Great Coach can’t save a team with England Players in it!! lol
But in all seriousness, it is an Under-23 tournament and the youth in GB is not bad at all, if anything, I would say they are on par with most of the world. Hopefully, they get a coach sooner rather than later and have enough time to prepare properly and let the team establish chemistry.
Well considering Sir Alex said this:
“I hope I’m still on this planet in 2012 first of all. I don’t need any commitment to anything like that.”
In late July, it seems that Fergie has his priorities elsewhere. I can never see him wanting to walk away from football for good, it would be enough to kill a man who has dedicated his whole life and every drip of determination in to the game. He has set a time of around 2 or 3 years as to when he’ll leave United and wants to give the time left to his “long, suffering” wife.
I don’t think he’d ever do it because he’s bigger and better than that and will know that after all he has achieved at Old Trafford and in Aberdeen before, coaching a team in a Cup competition as a one off would be mediocre in comparison to everything the man has done for himself, the Club, countless players and most of all us fans.
The full article from 26th July 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article4402713.ece
i wud luv 2 c fergie try his hand at it, wud b the 1 and onli tym id want team gb aka england and probly gareth bale, to win!! hes chums wid gordon brown aswel, i rekon its possbile.
Well done Azza — will you have learnt how 2 spel by then?
tos pott
For one tournament the pressure should not be too high, especially for a new team being created just for the tournament. This is England however and the press will find a way to put tons of pressure on the GB team. While I think Fergie is an obvious choice as he is the most successful British manager of all time, I have to agree that it worries me that his career might have this small blemish if things don’t go well.
With that said, nothing he does after his retirement from United will matter to me, he will still be the best United manager of all time. Even if the GB team is beaten 4-0 in each and every game, he will still be the best and most important United manager of all time and if he can win some glory for GB in the Olympics all the better for Fergie. We are all lucky Fergie joined us from Aberdeen and that he found a way to turn our club around and help make United the best club in the world.
RED
This comment makes much more sense than your previous comments explaining your conviction that Saha was a better player than Ruud…
Well i’d be curious to see Fergie manage that GB team. Fergie is a team builder, and in both aberdeen and man utd he took time to turn fortunes around. so the question is, will be manage to build a successful GB team with so little time?? Will be bring together players separatee by decades of rivalry? The issue won’t be to find good under-23 players…there is a lot of those hanging around major clubs both north anbd south of the border…the issue is to mould them into a team capable of playing together and with a strong sense of belonging to the team. A glaswegian player won’t give a damn about olympics being organised in London.
stil learnin brucey boi!!!!