A manager’s first trophy at new club is a vital moment.
A cup can give you some much needed breathing space with owners, and also help get fans back on your side.
It may not always prevent you from getting the sack, Jose Mourinho as an example, but it can sure help, as Alex Ferguson found out in 1990
The Scot was under enormous pressure and understood to be just days from the exit door, when his Manchester United side faced Nottingham Forest 26-years ago in the FA Cup.
Mark Robins scored the all important winner that day with United going on to lift the trophy in Wembley later that year, and so kick-starting the most successful period for the club.
Head to 1.40 below for the magic moment
Speaking to The Mirror today, But the former Norwich striker admits that he has a gripe with the ex-Aberdeen boss to this day, having never been thanked properly for scoring the goal that many people widely accept as having saved Ferguson’s Old Trafford career,
“Every time the FA Cup comes around, I am reminded of THAT goal, but the truth is that I don’t think Sir Alex likes to be reminded of it. I haven’t spoken to him very often since I left United in 1992.”
“But he wrote in one of his books that he thought I was going to miss and that I only scored because Stuart Pearce pushed me onto the ball. Whether that goal saved his job I don’t know because it was something that was never spoken about inside the club.”
