Forget Springsteen, Alex Ferguson was The Boss back in the 80s.
And 40 years after bringing the Glory Days to Pittorie, he still is to every Aberdeen player he managed. John McMaster doesn’t call him anything else, although there were times he probably felt like it.
But throughout the course of an hour long conversation with the man who played left back under Sir Alex on the night Aberdeen stunned the world by consigning defeat to a Real Madrid side which never lost a European final before or after, there is nothing but genuine affection and gratitude for the role Ferguson played in making him a Gothenburg Great. There’s even a twinkle in his eye as he describes the occasional lambasting and maybe something else as McMaster recounts the kindness shown by his manager when a knee injury threatened his career three years before he scaled those heights in Sweden.
