弗格森入住曼联20周年特辑一
1986年11月6号，弗格森正式入住曼联，从此开始书写他的传奇。这几天我将集中摘录一些来自媒体、球员、足坛名宿以及弗格森本人的采访报道。
弗格森接受曼联电视台专访
People are going on about my 20 years here and what we have achieved but that doesn’t matter to me, to be honest, the future is always the most important thing.
I don't think I've watched a single video of any of the trophies that I've won apart from the European Cup Winners' Cup victory over Real Madrid with Aberdeen - I've watched that a few times. But apart from that and a few snatches of the game in Barcelona when we beat Bayern Munich, I don't tend to look back, I always move forward.
I never like putting my head on the block with rash forecasts because football fate is a tricky customer. But I have to be honest and tell you there is a confidence about the place that suggests we are now in a position to pull out all the stops and go for it.
There is a spirit and belief in the dressing room that tells me we will be having a real go for trophies this year.
人们总是对过去的20年以及我们所取得成就津津乐道，但实话告诉你，我根本不在乎这些东西，我关心的只有未来。
我从来没有重温过我率队夺得联赛杯赛的那些比赛的录像，除了阿伯丁打败皇马夺得优胜者杯那场，那场比赛我确实看了好几次。99年对拜仁的那场我也看过几次，只是看了点片断。除此之外，我就再没有看过过去夺得冠军的比赛的录像了。我不愿意老是在过去停留，我宁可往前看。
我不喜欢去冒冒失失地去预测什么，因为在足球世界里，什么都太难说了。但我可以很自信地告诉你，全队上下现在都充满信心，今年我们将一改颓势，向各项冠军发起冲击。
博比查尔顿爵士：
The last 20 years have been really easy to live with at Old Trafford. It's been magic, and you have to put it down to Alex Ferguson.
The expectations of Manchester United, with all the history, are huge. People expect United to be up there and competing at the highest level. But I don’t think anybody’s had a manager that’s been there for 20 years and had the record that he’s had in one position. It’s fantastic, really. Bill Shankly, Brian Clough… there are certain managers that can stay the distance and go longer than the norm, and Alex is one of them. He’s just terrific.
If there was an exciting player that Matt Busby felt the fans would enjoy watching, Matt Busby would go and sign him and Alex Ferguson’s done the same, the youth policy’s been always part of the tradition here - it’s been marvellous.
Alex has continued producing youth players to (a) do well in their own youth competitions and (b) also to come forward into the first team. Like Matt Busby, he’s never been afraid to give young players a chance.
He’s arguably the greatest manager ever, although I think the fact that Bob Paisley and Liverpool have won the European Cup more times probably grates on Alex a little bit. For the number of times we’ve been champions we’ve not taken it that stage further. I think he’d like to win at least one more European Cup before he packs his bags.
When it comes down to it, he’s a worker. His background of coming up in Govan in the shipbuilding areas of Glasgow… he brought the same mentality and attitude onto the football pitch. He’s completely professional in every way and I’m glad he’s been here for the last 20 years.
过去的20年，曼联赢得了无数荣誉、赞美，而这一切，都要归功于阿莱士弗格森爵士。
对于曼联这样的球队，无论何时人们总是充满了期待，希望他有出色的表现，希望他赢得更多的奖杯，希望他能站在欧洲之巅。弗格森帮助球队做到了这一点，我想过去没有，也许今后也不会再有谁能像他那样，在曼联的帅位上一待就是20年，取得如此辉煌的成就了（马克巴斯比爵士共执教曼联24年，但从赢得奖杯的数量上来说要少于弗格森）。他真是一个奇迹，足以和Bill Shankly（利物浦）, Brian Clough（诺丁汉森林）这些传奇教练齐名，永垂青史。
当巴斯比爵士注意到一个有才华的年青球员时，他会迫不及待地签下他，这一点弗格森和他完全一样，他们都在培养年青球员上花了大量的心血。他们总是给年青球员良好的成长环境，将其中的佼佼者选入一队，给他们机会锻炼成长。
弗格森爵士毫无疑问是有史以来最伟大的教练之一，尽管从夺得欧洲冠军杯的数量上看，Bob Paisley和他的利物浦队要更多一些。我想这可能让他有点窝火，以曼联的成绩和实力，我们完全应该在欧洲赛场上更有建树。我相信弗格森爵士决不会就此放弃，在他退休前他一定会想要至少再拿一座欧冠杯。
所有曼联及他在最近20年中所取得的成就和荣耀归根到底都是因为他那永不言弃的精神，他来自格拉斯哥的造船区Govan，他把那种永不放弃的精神深深地注入了球队，他是曼联的骄傲。
斯科尔斯：弗格森造就了我
I have a massive amount of respect for him and he has been great to me, he made me what I am today, and a lot of other young players what they are today. He was one of the first managers to give young players a real big chance. To do it all at the same time and bring four or five of us through is one of the great things he did."
"He did take a chance on us," admits Scholes. "His judgement was that we could take the club on. He got rid of three or four major players and he put his trust in us to come through for him and perform. The fact we have done that is all credit to him. He gave us a chance when not many managers would have taken such a big risk at such a big club.
"The famous Alan Hansen quote about not winning anything with kids came after we were beaten at Aston Villa on the opening day. It just made us more determined and probably made the manager more determined to bring us through. Even after that, he retained his faith in us and kept picking us. We have managed to produce the goods."
"With him the players come first," he explained. "He never slags anyone off publicly. If he has something to say he does it in the dressing room and it never leaves that. That isn't always the case with managers these days.
"If you do something wrong and he is not happy with it, if you apologise, go and see him and talk to him there is always room to forgive. He knows how important players are and he sticks up for us to the hilt, It makes us feel wanted and that is important to us. I think he does protect us but if something is not right and he is not happy, he will let you know about it.
When someone like Alex Ferguson is picking you, it does give you more confidence. You know he trusts you. There is only so much a manager can do, the rest we have to do ourselves. He cannot kick the ball for us. Trust is a massive thing. He has shown a lot of trust in giving us chance."
"He is trying to do it again now," says Scholes. "He has to. People get older and people leave the club. You have to try and bring young players in. There is no-one better at doing that than our manager.
"Who knows how long he will go on. I don't think he's looking any older. I think he is still enjoying coming out every day on the training ground - even in the freezing cold he still loves it and hopefully it will be a while yet.
"You can’t imagine it here without him. One day it will happen, but I don’t think it will be soon. But when it does happen it will be a shame because he has been fantastic for this club. He has made us what we are today. When a new manager takes over there will be a big void to fill."
我对教练的尊敬和感激之情难以言喻，是他造就了我，没有他我就没有今天。不只是我，很多年青球员我和一样，都是被他一手带大的。我记得那年他一下子把我们四、五个人从青年队调到一队，给我们出场机会，没有哪个教练会像他这样给年轻队员这么多信任。
他知道俱乐部的未来就在于年青球员，所以给了我们许多锻炼机会，把一些原先的主力放在一边。我们现在所有的成就都是当初他对我们信任的结果，没有多少大俱乐部的主教练会像他一样把宝押在年轻人身上。
在那年联赛的开幕赛上我们输给了Alan Hansen带领的阿斯顿维拉队，赛后他对教练说：“靠这么一帮孩子是没办法夺得联赛冠军的。”但这番话不仅没让我们泄气，反而更坚定了我们的决心。我相信教练一定也是这样想的，在那之后，他继续信任我们，给了我们更多的机会，我们也终于在联赛中逐渐成长起来了。
教练一直很注意保护我们，他从不在公开场合骂我们。如果他要批评你，他会在更衣室里面说，而一旦出了更衣室，他就什么都忘了，这和现在的一些教练很不相同。
即使有队员确实做了让他生气的事，只要诚心诚意地道歉，他一定会原谅你的。他永远都站在球员的这一边，这让我们很有依靠感，他总是保护球员，而他要是你的所作所为有什么不满的话，也会诚实说出来。
教练总是给与球员极大的信任，当一个年轻球员知道他居然被弗格森这样的大牌教练看中的时候，他一定会对自己的实力充满信心，同时唯一能够做的就是用自己的努力来回报教练的信任。教练能够做的他都做到了，就是对球员绝对的信任，接下来就要看球员自己的努力了，因为他不可能代替你上场比赛。
他曾经培养了许多出色的球员，现在他又在这么做了。新陈代谢是俱乐部发展过程中必不可少的一个环节，铁打的营帐流水的兵，但我敢保证，没有人在一点上比弗格森作的更出色了。
没有人知道他还会在曼联的主教练位置上干多久，他看上去还是那么老当益壮，对足球还是那么充满热情，即使是在寒冷的冬天，他还是神采奕奕。
真的很难想象没有他的曼联会变得怎样，尽管谁都知道那一天迟早会发生，但我不认为也不希望那天很快来到。如果教练真的退休了，那对于俱乐部来说真是个大损失，他为俱乐部作了那么多的贡献，他是独一无二的，没有他就没有我们，很难想象有谁可以填补他退休后的空缺。
