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'Talks went really, really well, and I thought at one stage I was going to go to Manchester United, and I even went house hunting around Manchester for a day': Alan Shearer reveals how close he came to signing for Alex Ferguson
Alan Shearer nearly ended up playing for Manchester United in 1996 - and now he reveals just how close he came to signing for them
League Cup winning managers
From its inauguration in 1960/1961 through to the present day, a look at some of the managers who won the League Cup...
‘Brian Clough locked me in his office for three hours, gave my new wife flowers and chocolates, and told me I wasn’t leaving until I signed for Nottingham Forest’ Martin Keown discusses the grilling he got from Old Big ‘Ead’
EXCLUSIVE The former Arsenal and England defender recounts an audience with Brian Clough in detail to FourFourTwo
‘People say the 1990 FA Cup put Sir Alex Ferguson on the road to success, but beating Barcelona gave us the confidence to take on the best and go for league titles’: Manchester United legend pinpoints turning point under Scottish manager's tenure
Manchester United won two trophies in two years under Sir Alex Ferguson, and former player Lee Sharpe highlights one was much more important...
Managers who won European trophies at two clubs
Multi winners Winning a European trophy makes a manager pretty special. Doing it at two different clubs is elite. Here, a look at some who achieved it in the men's game...
‘I never regretted not going to Manchester United – Fergie knew I was getting married and suggested I think of my family and take the bigger wages at Everton’: Sir Alex Ferguson indicated England international shouldn't sign for him due to money
Sir Alex Ferguson failed to sign a top centre-back while manager of Manchester United - and it was all through his own suggestion
“I told Sir Alex, ‘At St Mirren, you failed to sign a future double European Golden Boot winner, but to be fair, you didn’t half recover from that mistake’”: Scotland legend reveals Ferguson's huge mistake when starting out as manager
Sir Alex Ferguson was proven wrong by one Scotland hero, though it didn't seem to affect him that much in his managerial career
“That was the secret”: Manchester United great reveals method to getting back into Sir Alex Ferguson's good books
EXCLUSIVE Alejandro Garnacho and Marcus Rashford aren’t the first wingers to fall foul of a Manchester United manager – thankfully, legend Sharpe is on hand with advice
