Retiring Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has revealed that he told the club about his decision to step down in March, as his team began to build a sizeable lead in the Premier League.
The 71-year-old also admitted it was hard keeping the news under wraps and had to make it public after the Red Devils sealed their 20th League title.
“Sometimes I was sitting with my family and you forget you’re actually going to retire and talk about next year,” he told MUTV. “You’re afraid you’re going to blurt something else but I didn’t tell my sons until the end of March – well, Jason knew earlier as he works a lot with me.
“I only told my brother the night before it was announced and he wasn’t too pleased! I got a bit of invective off him.
“It was difficult but the club knew in March. We sat down and discussed it and, of course, David [Gill] is retiring too and it gave me a problem as I didn’t want to think we’d be leaving the club in the lurch.
“The rumour started out, didn’t it. On Tuesday night, the rumour had gone out and it’s hard to keep things intact at Old Trafford. It’s a bit of a sieve at times and news seems to creep out from all different angles and sources.
“I’ve tried over the years to eliminate these leakages of news getting out. I always thought, over the last 10 years especially, a part of my job is to keep us out of the news, which is nigh on impossible.
“You have to accept we are news but there’s a difference between good news and bad news. I always tried to keep bad news away from the club and that’s difficult in the modern day.”
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