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How Mark Robins saved Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United job

Michael Stewart recalls when Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United future was hanging by a thread 35 years ago.

How Mark

Michael Stewart recalls when Alex Ferguson's Manchester United future was hanging by a thread 35 years ago.
When you think about the players who played for Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, the list seems endless.

And if you think of the players who he had to thank for his success, the names that spring to mind are the likes of Roy Keane, Paul Scholes, and Ryan Giggs, to name a chosen few.
But one name the great man and the fans perhaps have the most to be thankful for isn’t necessarily the most obvious. That man is Mark Robins. Because without him the course of Manchester United’s histor...

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