Mark McGhee: "I think he would feel he is proving himself to his father more than anything else. I think he would want to prove his father that he could maintain his standards. Everyone who gets close to him feels that, if you are performing badly, you are letting him down and I think he doesn't want to let his family down. It's a very working-class ethic."
If a thing's worth doing it's worth doing well, said Alexander Ferguson Senior. Sir Alex Ferguson has done football management so extraordinarily well for so long that his life in the game is not only unprecedented but, in near-certainty, unrepeatable.
Discipline and good manners were also in the family tradition. Along with something else. And if Alexander Ferguson Senior were here to be asked what he felt of his elder son's life, he would express nothing but pride.
The Fergusons always did believe in loyalty.
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