History for Rusty Dunks

Book has arrived, and I've read almost all off it.....the author did well to stretch basically a 2.5 year or whatever career (most of which was injuries) into 400 pages.....I have to say, I skipped a couple of chapters at the beginning, about his childhood and whatnot.

There's not much insight from Fergie, who only corresponds to the author by one (seemingly) short letter, saying it was a shame etc. Ryan Giggs offered more detail saying that Doherty was pretty much not talked about at MUFC due to people being under a misconception about how he died. Giggs was in awe of Doherty, as was Gary Nev. Pretty much everyone was (pre-injury)

Author also talks to Jules Maiorana, who suffered a similar injury - and he was quite bitter about his treatment from Fergie and United. I googled him to find out more, and looks like he only recently got over what he thought was a sharkhouse treatment from his former club.

For all of Fergie's title winning success (putting his obvious failures to one side), his much-lauded man management has always struck me as pretty poor. Sure, to be a winner you have to be a right cod......but the guy does seem to treat players like meat, which he probably isn't the only one to do so, and goes out of his way to poo-poo the efforts/abilities of former players. His "Managing My Life" autobiography was just a diatribe in how he has never made a mistake....even though he's made countless errors.

I often wondered why Mark Robins never really got a fair suck of the sav at OT. He was like a late 80s/early 90s Ole Solskjaer. Different era back then, with smaller squads/fewer subs, but really.....what a fantastic finisher......

Book has arrived, and I've read almost all off it.....the author did well to stretch basically a 2.5 year or whatever career (most of which was injuries) into 400 pages.....I have to say, I skipped a couple of chapters at the beginning, about his childhood and whatnot.

There's not much insight from Fergie, who only corresponds to the author by one (seemingly) short letter, saying it was a shame etc. Ryan Giggs offered more detail saying that Doherty was pretty much not talked about at MUFC due to people being under a misconception about how he died. Giggs was in awe of Doherty, as was Gary Nev. Pretty much everyone was (pre-injury)

Author also talks to Jules Maiorana, who suffered a similar injury - and he was quite bitter about his treatment from Fergie and United. I googled him to find out more, and looks like he only recently got over what he thought was a sharkhouse from his former club.

For all of Fergie's title winning success (putting his obvious failures to one side), his much-lauded man management has always struck me as pretty poor. Sure, to be a winner you have to be a right cod......but the guy does seem to treat players like meat, which he probably isn't the only one to do so, and goes out of his way to poo-poo the efforts/abilities of former players. His "Managing My Life" autobiography was just a diatribe in how he has never made a mistake....even though he's made countless errors.

I often wondered why Mark Robins never really got a fair suck of the sav at OT. He was like a late 80s/early 90s Ole Solskjaer. Different era back then, with smaller squads/fewer subs, but really.....what a fantastic finisher......