Sir Alex Ferguson recalls losing voice after 2018 brain haemorrhage
Sir Alex Ferguson woke up after brain surgery unable to speak.
He lost his voice completely in the days that followed. The former Manchester United manager described that frightening silence in an interview with BBC Breakfast about his recovery and his career BBC.
Ferguson is now 84, three months short of his 85th birthday. He suffered a brain haemorrhage in May 2018, when he was 76, and underwent emergency surgery.
At that point he had been retired for five years. He had spent 26 years in charge of United, from 1986 to 2013, and won 38 trophies.
Four months after the operation, he was back at Old Trafford. He watched United face Wolves in the Premier League, England's top division, alongside his wife Cathy. The pair received a standing ovation in the directors' box.
The new interview ties into his latest book, 'Games of My Life'. It picks out 21 defining matches from his time as a player and as a manager.
His record at United still sets the bar. He won 13 Premier League titles, two Champions Leagues, Europe's top club competition, five FA Cups and four League Cups. He also lifted the Club World Cup, European Super Cup, European Cup Winners' Cup and Intercontinental Cup.
The book starts much earlier. Ferguson won his first cup final for Govan High School in Glasgow in 1955, aged 13. He then made his playing debut as a 16-year-old striker for Queen's Park.
What makes this stand out is the span of it. From a school final in Glasgow to European nights at Old Trafford, one life in football holds together. Ferguson tells it in his own voice now, the voice he once feared he had lost.
