Lady Ferguson (pictured in recent years and in 1968 with her husband) is the one person in the world who Sir Alex — the famously bullying, rude, intimidating manager of Manchester United, who retired this week after 26 years at the club — does not answer back to. A few years ago, sick of looking at her husband’s trophies and medals on display all over the walls of their house, ordered him to take them down. He is also banned from talking ‘shop’ when he comes home from work to their £2 million mock Tudor mansion in Wilmslow, Cheshire. ...read
The only person who gives Fergie the hairdryer treatment: Why Sir Alex Ferguson's wife is even more formidable than he is
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