Record was beyond Fergie’s dreams

ALEX FERGUSON claims equalling Liverpool’s record of league championship wins was the last thing on his mind when he joined Manchester United in 1986.

The Merseyside giants had finished top on 18 occasions before United managed their first triumph under Ferguson in 1993.

At the time, it seemed like a seminal moment in itself. Little could Ferguson have imagined that 16 years later he would stand on the brink of matching the Anfield outfit, who he famously told he would “knock off their perch” when he first came south from Aberdeen.