“I informed Sir Alex, ‘At St Mirren, you did not signal a future double European Golden Boot winner, however to be truthful, you didn’t half recuperate from that mistake’”: Scotland legend reveals Ferguson’s large mistake when beginning out as supervisor

Scotland legend Ally McCoist has revealed how Sir Alex Ferguson’s resolution to reject him as a youngster at St Mirren in 1978 in the end proved a helpful studying expertise he then used himself as a supervisor at Rangers.

Ferguson had launched a teenage McCoist at St Mirren for being too small. Whereas devastated, he by no means forgot how the long run Aberdeen and Manchester United boss broke the information gently, encouraging the budding striker to show him mistaken by turning into successful elsewhere.