Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In (2021)

Directed by

Jason Ferguson

Genre

documentary film, association football film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

M

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 49 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the life story of football manager Alex Ferguson, from his childhood in Scotland through his playing days and his long career as a manager, including his recovery from a brain hemorrhage. It uses interviews with Ferguson, his family, and former players to show his journey and the people who shaped him.

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What happens

Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In is a 2021 British documentary film about the former Scotland, Aberdeen and Manchester United football manager Alex Ferguson. The documentary recounts Ferguson's life from his early experiences in Govan, through his playing career as a striker at Rangers amongst others, to his long and successful managerial career, using archive footage and interviews with Ferguson that began in 2016, and includes Ferguson's recovery from his 2018 brain haemorrhage. The documentary helped Ferguson end a long running feud with Gordon Strachan, his former player at Aberdeen and Manchester United, that had begun in the 1980s. The two went out for lunch and buried the hatchet at the urging of Ferguson's son Jason. Strachan appears as a talking head in the film along with 11 other interviewees in total: Ferguson, five family members (Ferguson's wife Cathy Ferguson and their sons, Jason, Mark and Darren along with his brother, Martin Ferguson), two doctors, and Ryan Giggs, Eric Cantona and Archie Knox. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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