Fergie Week – Archivist: 19 photos of Alex Ferguson with new Manchester United players

It’s business time…

July 1987: Viv Anderson and Brian McClair. Fergie employing The Bard of Ayrshire’s double handshake.

November 1992: Woe is Leeds.

January 1995: Fergie loved stealing. Loved it.

August 1997:  Henning Berg – a tucker-in, ladies and gentlemen.

July 1998: Mystic Jesper Blomqvist.

September 1999: Phil Tufnell. Notice anything about Fergie here? He’s not convinced, is he.

April 2001: This turned out reasonably well.

July 2001: The holiday romance.

January 2002: Right(ish) player, wrong time. Wrong hair, also.

July 2002: Turning up at Old Trafford dressed as Liverpool. Priceless.

January 2004: Denim is French you know.

July 2004: One of these men is not the Next Roy Keane.

August 2004: Still going.

January 2006: Who is that? Ah, as you were.

January 2006: Evra’s wallet says ‘bad motherfucker’.

August 2006: Carrick’s wallet does not say ‘bad motherfucker’. How convinced is Fergie? Somewhere between Taibi and Forlan.

July 2007: Hargreaves has no number. Yup.

August 2007: Here comes trouble – he’s not going to help you, Alex.

July 2009: Lighten up.

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