​ Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed that a feeling of uncertainty over the nature of the approach was what led him to turn down the opportunity to manage former club Rangers in the mid 1980s. And Rangers' loss was certainly Manchester United's gain after he went south to England instead.





Despite his father's love of Celtic, Ferguson grew up a Rangers fan. He went to school just '200 yards' from Ibrox and by his own admission 'never missed a game' on a Saturday afternoon until he started playing more serious football himself.

He eventually played for Rangers in the late 1960s, but managing them wasn't something that he thought felt right at the time since the offer was there but it wasn't clear who was making it.





"I may have been more attracted to the job had Willie Waddell (vice-chairman/general manager) approached me for it. But it wasn't Willie Waddell, it was John Paton (chairman) who spoke to me," Ferguson explained in an interview with Rangers' official website.





"So I spoke to Scot Symon (former Rangers player, manager and general manager) and he asked if it was Waddell who had made the approach. On finding out it wasn't, he said he would worry about that as Willie was still running the show.

"That was one of the reasons I felt uneasy about it, so I turned it down. I think I did the right thing going to England from Aberdeen."





Ferguson later arrived in Manchester in November 1986 to take over from Ron Atkinson at Old Trafford. He had to wait nearly four whole years for his first trophy, capturing the FA Cup in 1990, but the rest, as they say, is history.





Ferguson's Aberdeen, back-to-back title winners in 1984 and 1985, remain the last club other than Rangers or Celtic to be crowned Scottish champions in 32 long years and counting.

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