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Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester United by Will Tidey (view source)
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|reviewer=Iain Wear
|genre=Sport
|rating=4.5
|buy=Maybe
|borrow=Yes
However, the book's main advantage is also its major weakness. Although this is written as a fan, Tidey's journalistic training comes through. This certainly helps the quality of writing, but it does remove a little something from the book. In many parts, it feels as if he's telling the story from the point of view of an observer, rather than as a fanatic. When the personal touch is added, such as when he was living in New York, or recounting the story of his visit to Barcelona, it added something a little more personal and I felt the book had some passion in these sequences that was missing in other places.
Perhaps my being such a fan of [[:Category:Nick Hornby|Nick Hornby's ]] ''Fever Pitch'' made me expect a little more in the way of humour and passion than was evident here. These things weren't entirely missing, they just weren't as much to the fore as in that book. What we have, however, is a hugely detailed recounting of Alex Ferguson's Manchester United history. For any Manchester United fan in their mid-30s or any younger fans who missed the early years of his reign and would like to catch up, this is a very accessible history of that period.
But given Ferguson's stated aim early in his management to knock Liverpool'' off their f**king perch'' and how well he succeeded in that aim, this certainly can't be recommended for a Liverpool fan.