I had a missed call last week from

I think there are ways to permanently save voicemails as an MP3, something I'd definitely look into for a voicemail as amazing as that!

 

Didn’t Alex Ferguson’s brother play for us and with your Dad in mid 60’s

 

Fergies autobiographies are a brilliant read. Like Jock Stein he never forgot his working class roots.

 

superb. thanks for sharing a very personal moment.
I'm sure Eric will be smiling down on Alex and yourself for the interaction.
Love the fact that you've got the voicemail. Special. Very very special.
I've posted previously to commiserate....your Dad was our boyhood hero. When I say "our" I mean me and my old school mates. To this day we're still exchanging stories of our boyhood hero on our what's app group.
What a man he was.

 

As I said above

 

Absolutely brilliant to hear.

 

I used to hate Man Utd and Alex Ferguson until 1999. They'd just done my beloved Arsenal in the league and F.A Cup. Anyway my Dad put the Champions League Final on and we watched as they achieved the impossible and were both reduced to tears.

It got us talking and he told me why he had a soft spot for Man Utd. When he was growing up the game was solely about football and how well you played. Typhoo did a promotion where you got a team picture of all the big clubs. He had Man Utd, Tottenham, Burnley and Sheff Utd. There wasn't the rivalry more an appreciation of good football.

I love his stories about the Clarke and Hunter era and being a Tottenham fan in the home end at Elland Road

It just re-iterates to me that there is a loving father, husband, brother, grandfather behind the public persona people see.

Easy to miss the warmth away from the dog eat dog rigours on the pitch. We're all human.

Thanks for posting that Terry. I hope you do get to talk to Sir Alex because we live on through the great memories we share.

 

I spent the evening with friends, my BiL is a massive Liverpool fan, I mentioned I’d just read this thread- and the humanity cut right across the rivalry. He mentioned seeing on TV about your dads passing, and that it was total class for Sir Alex to get in touch.

 

Brilliant hope he calls back
Heard a lot of good things about him

 

Martin his brother played for BFC back in the early 60s and like Murph has said my Dad used to take the new pros to my nans (who died the year before I was born) for fish and chips. He got in with my Dad and Murph and they became close mates to this day.

Im pretty sure Martin stayed at my Nans for a few weeks/months until he found somewhere to stay.

Alex was either just finishing or at Rangers at the time and came down regularly.

He’s never forgot my Dad.

Can I just say, my Dad was a brilliant bloke, in an absolutely brilliant family.

He was the youngest of 6 kids. All my aunties and uncles were amazing. They’d give you all they had, they were proud of my Dad but they were all the same.

Unfortunately we have lost now 5 of them in the last 3 years.

I could not wish for more love from one family than I have done. We’ve had some laughs, and some absolute turmoil (my auntie was in a coma for 29 years) but they’ve all been nothing more than utterly amazing.

That was my Dads family, and I wish they all could have listened to that message because sir alex is right, he was a great man, born in a great family.

I’m in tears writing this and it’s the first time for a few days.

Ive stayed off of social media and I think it’s all caught up.

I really do thank you all for all your kind words Over the last few weeks. It’s been amazing and got me to this point.

Much love x

 

If I was in your shoes Terry Nutkins then I'd be sorely tempted to write a letter, yes a letter (I know that's old school but I'm old school and I bet SAF is even older school) to SAF via Old Trafford, expressing a) how sorry you were you could not take the call b) how touched you were how you took the trouble to contact yourself and c) suggest a time when you know you can take a call from SAF, if not only to say how much the ordinary working class folk from here appreciate you personally took the trouble, yes you, not your secretary or the Old Trafford office staff to try to talk to you.

 

I'm in tears just reading this TN. Take care mate and can I once again pass on my sincerest condolences to you and your family and friends

 

Amazing gesture can see why he has so much respect from those who played under him.