This is the One: Sir Alex Ferguson: The Uncut Story of a Football Genius

Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired in May 2013 as the manager of Manchester United, is the most successful manager English football has ever seen. When This Is The One was first published in 2007 it was hailed by Michael Crick as 'one of the all-time Manchester United classics' and featured by The Times in their quest to find the 'Best Ever 50 Sports Books'. Written over the course of two eventful and controversial seasons 2005-06. This Is The One offers a unique portrait of Sir Alex Ferguson from Daniel Taylor’s position behind the scenes as a football writer covering the club for The Guardian. Taylor sees Ferguson at one of the lowest ebbs of his quarter of a century in charge during the 2005-06 season, with a failing team, explosive fallouts with Roy Keane and Ruud van Nistelrooy, a disenchanted fan base and speculation that he might be forced out of the job. The season that followed demonstrated why Ferguson will been seen as the greatest manager the game has ever seen, deposing Chelsea as Premier League champions and eventually seeing off Jose Mourinho. Ferguson would later call it the 'greatest achievement' of his time at England’s biggest football club. This Is The One is the close-up, warts-and-all account of what happened during those two helterskelter seasons – the excruciating lows and the exhilarating highs – and the many different sides of Ferguson, from his infamous 'hairdryer' treatment to the softer, more humane side of the most successful manager in the business.