Is this the end of the line for Ferguson?

IT came as a shock to Charlie Haughey. It brought down the Berlin Wall, put paid to the mini-skirt and accounted for such disparate phenomena as punk rock and crooner Engelbert Humperdinck.

Is this the end of the line for Ferguson?
Wed, 14 Aug, 2002 - 01:00
Frank Malley

It is an inevitable truth. Everyone and everything, however successful, has a shelf life.

As Manchester United flew out to Hungary yesterday for their Champions League qualifier against

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