Luis Suarez may have got my vote for Player of the Year, but this Jekyll and Hyde character is seriously damaging Liverpool

Alex Ferguson has admitted he would be willing to spend big if it meant luring the right man to Manchester United this summer.

Ivanovic gnawed, Blatter hacked and Spanish giants savaged – it’s been a football week red in tooth and claw.

I brought some German colleagues to the dogs a few years ago. It might well be the last time anyone from their nation turned elsewhere for sporting inspiration.

You can never escape history at Manchester United; the place is steeped in it.

Highlights include new RTÉ/BBC thriller, The Fall, and the Eurovision semi-final

Alex Ferguson was narrowly denied a poignant victory at Chester racecourse on the day the legendary manager announced his retirement.

Of the many tasks Alex Ferguson relished when taking the Manchester United job in 1986, addressing the chasm between the club and Ireland featured prominently.

It’s August 1988 and, although discontent is starting to grow on the Old Trafford terraces, Alex Ferguson’s determination is only deepening.

The Premier League without Alex Ferguson: it will be like looking out your window one day to savour a familiar view and discovering a whole mountain has disappeared.

Perhaps the longest-running pub debate in sport is about to come to an end, with Everton manager David Moyes set to replace Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.

It was second nature. You ransacked Alex Ferguson’s retirement statement over and over. Shaking it down for clues. Or barbs. Or agendas.

Everton manager David Moyes was last night on the brink of being named successor to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson.

The stock image of Alex Ferguson, familiar around the world, is of someone who lives and breathes football, and gives it loads to referees. But there’s more to him than that, as Irish Examiner editor Tim Vaughan discovered

A Cork-based friend of Alex Ferguson has revealed he will be making attempts to encourage him to visit the city.

Paddy Crerand knows more than most when it comes to Manchester United — but was a little out of the loop when it came to the biggest bombshell to hit the club in almost 30 years.

News of Alex Ferguson’s retirement received more than 1.4m mentions on Twitter in the first hour after the story broke yesterday morning, while the tweet from the club was re-tweeted or favourited more than 18,000 times.

Alex Ferguson leaves Manchester United in an era very different to the one in which he started the job.

Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United future was last night shrouded in mystery as the club failed to respond to requests to confirm or deny that he was contemplating his future after 26 years at the helm.

Roberto Mancini is a man under pressure to win and win well against Wigan in Saturday’s FA Cup final.