admin Lady Kathy Ferguson has passed away at the age of 84. She played an important role in Manchester United’s modern history.
It’s unusual for a football manager’s wife to be serenaded on game day, but Mrs. Cathy Ferguson deserved the privilege.
In 2002, Manchester United fans temporarily excluded Alex at the expense of Cassie with the expression “We all love Alex Ferguson”. Because she was the one who woke her husband from his nap and told him he wasn’t going to back down.
Sir Alex Ferguson decided at the end of the 2000/01 season that the next season would be his last. On February 5 2002, United announced that Ferguson would remain at the club.
“It was really Cathy’s idea,” Ferguson admitted at the time. “If she hadn’t come up with it and the boys (their sons, Darren, Mark and Jason) hadn’t given full support, I wouldn’t have considered a change of mind.
“But I do have to confess that maybe it was an idea I was hoping deep down she would come up with.”
Over the next 11 years, United would win six more Premier League titles, three League Cups, one FA Cup, one Champions League and one Club World Cup. The Ferguson era ended after 26.5 years, not 15.5.
When Ferguson was finally promoted in 2013, it was the death of Mrs Cathy’s sister Bridget in December 2012.
“She lost her best friend and her sister,” Ferguson declared after the Master on United’s Premier League coronation day in May 2013. “She’s very isolated right now, and I think I owe a lot of my free time to her.”
The Ferguson family attended her wedding in Los Angeles, as Mrs. Cathy would have wanted to attend. Attended the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony. From doing so.
In December 2012, she stood by her husband’s side as he removed the tarpaulin from the Ferguson statue outside Old Trafford’s North Stand. The plaque says it was unveiled by “Mrs. Catherine Ferguson, his greatest supporter”.
1998’s The Alex Ferguson Story vividly depicts the domestic life of the Ferguson family in Wilmslow, with Ferguson recalling a recent meal in Paris. Supermodel Claudia Schiffer also dined nearby.
Mrs. Cathy scoffs at the anecdote. Mr. Ferguson excitedly called his wife, who was attending his child’s birthday party, to tell her about his dining companion. She was not impressed.
It was Good Friday. United hosted Liverpool at lunchtime, but fell short in the title race, with Arsenal taking the title in the end.
But Mr. Ferguson is so relaxed that one might mistake him for an ambassador who has secured a seat in the director’s box. Today there is an ambassador’s column there with Mr. Ferguson’s name on it. Frustrated, Lady Cathy turns down her husband’s late invitation to the game and ignores his afterthoughts.
The couple’s reconciliation eased any tension Sir Alex might have felt, and he laughed as he approached the door.
They have been married for her 57 years.
