Doctors gave Sir Alex Ferguson only a 20% chance of survival after the brain haemorrhage he suffered in 2018. In an interview with the BBC on Friday, the former Manchester United manager looked back on a period when he came close to losing his life.
“I was terrified. I would have loved to say I was comfortable. I wasn’t,” he said. He explained that he had lost his voice and could no longer speak. “It was a terrifying moment.” He also recalled his grandsons visiting while he was unable to talk.
A therapist helped him work towards regaining his speech by asking him to write down names of birds, animals and rivers. “That’s how I got my voice back…,” Ferguson said. His account conveys the personal toll of an ordeal whose severity is reflected in the medical estimate of his chances of survival.
Last May, Ferguson was hospitalised again as he was preparing to attend a Manchester United match. Michael Carrick said at the time that he had been deeply affected by the news and hoped Ferguson was well. Now approaching 85, Ferguson says he feels “pretty good despite a few little injuries”.
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