On the only occasion in the past ten years that Sir Alex Ferguson allowed a journalist into his home, he talked of his love of reading. He showed off his extensive library. There, on tightly packed shelves, were Truman's memoirs, books about the Alamo and Rorke's Drift, biographies of Ali, Kennedy, Mandela, Sinatra and his favourite, When Pride Still Mattered, about Vince Lombardi, the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers American football team in the 1960s. Ferguson never met Lombardi, who died in 1970, but he sees a lot of himself in the pages of that biography. Many of Lombardi's most famous quotes could easily be imagined coming from the lips of the Manchester United manager. As...
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