That showed me that there was a lot of belligerence and a lot of aggression in how he managed and how he dealt with the media, but there was decency in him too. He had never seen Ferguson do something like that. “I remember Henry Winter, who was the Daily Telegraph football correspondent at the time, was astonished. “And then much to my surprise and to the other journalists that were there’s surprise, he came back in and came over to me and apologised and said he was just a little bit wound up about tomorrow night’s game and that he wasn’t really prepared for that kind of a question and that he didn’t mean to turn on me. Vincent Hogan: The other journalists had never seen Ferguson apologise before. Then the press conference ended and he went out. I was very conscious of it around me, from some of the big-name English journalists who found it very amusing.
‘The day before we play f***ing Barcelona in a Champions League match and you’re asking me about the Republic of Ireland!’ “Being from an Irish paper, I felt compelled to ask did this mean that having been ruled out of the upcoming European qualifier against the north, would he now be made available.
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