Glenn Hoddle has opened up about the foul-mouthed attacks he received from Sir Alex Ferguson when he was England manager after he upset the Scot with his use of Manchester United players on international duty.
The Tottenham and Chelsea legend was the Three Lions boss between 1996 and 1999, with United stars Gary Neville, David Beckham and Teddy Sheringham some of his key England players during his time as manager.
Hoddle revealed that he would get angry phone calls from Ferguson, even if he promised not to use the United players too much on England duty, with the 64-year-old unable to repeat what the Red Devils boss called him due to its rudeness.
In his book 'Playmaker: My Life and the Love of Football', which is serialised in the Guardian, Hoddle recalled: 'Dealing with United wasn't easy.
'There were problems getting players to report for duty at times and I had a row with Ferguson over two of his players before one friendly.
'His conduct was unprofessional when we spoke on the phone. I wasn't going to use the players but I wanted them to join up because we were preparing for the World Cup.
'But he wasn't having it. He was ranting and raving, even when I said I would send them back once the meetings were out of the way. I can't repeat what he called me. I just put the phone down. He called back to apologise but he wasn't happy.'
Hoddle recounts one complaint from Ferguson when he told United stars Beckham and Gary Neville to appear in front of the media after the Three Lions' 2-0 win over Tunisia at the 1998 World Cup - even though the pair were unused substitutes in the game.
It prompted iconic manager Ferguson to publicly complain about the England manager in the press during the tournament, which saw the Three Lions exit at the round-of-16 stage to Argentina.
'It all became a bit of a battle,' Hoddle added. 'And he used his Sunday Times column to criticise me when David and Gary Neville were put up at a press conference shortly after our win over Tunisia.
'Apparently it was insensitive after they'd been left out of the game.'
Hoddle was one of England's most successful manager in recent times, with his 60 per cent win ratio only bettered by World Cup winner Sir Alf Ramsey, Fabio Capello and Sam Allardyce, who won one from one as Three Lions boss in 2016.
Colekachi
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Only dumb people reads an article that says *FORWARD* and then comment with *BACKWARD*... So many lame comment about United bringing back Ferguson. Like seriously, read again kids. Its a different story entirely
Colekachi
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Bringing back Alex Ferguson will not solve United situations, because these abysmal performance started from him Ferguson when he fail to qualify the team from uefa champions league group stage and he was beaten back to back by Atlectico Bilbao in Europa league and he retired humbly that year.
Was the article talking about uNited bringing back Ferguson? Why the dumb comments. Gush! Childish
Colekachi
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Aleck fuckingson won't win anything even if he's in charge of manshitter United now cos he can't buy refs anymore.
Did he buy the matches he won against Bayern and Chelsea? Common baby stoo crying
YMO
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Ferguson wants all the glory ,none of his top players stay at man United because he did not want his players to have any praise of how they made United win only he wanted the glory the piece of crap
What a dumb logic. He let go the big names of David beckham, Van Nistelroy, Cristiano Ronaldo just to show no player is bigger than the club. He still have won many trophies without them. It was not about him. It was for the club, Manchester United.
Ticablmp
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Aleck fuckingson won't win anything even if he's in charge of manshitter United now cos he can't buy refs anymore.
Lol cry more baby 😂
Andile1986
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Ferguson wants all the glory ,none of his top players stay at man United because he did not want his players to have any praise of how they made United win only he wanted the glory the piece of crap
bull, giggs , scholes one club men
Vetabciktu
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Ferguson wants all the glory ,none of his top players stay at man United because he did not want his players to have any praise of how they made United win only he wanted the glory the piece of crap
Naycdknr
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Aleck fuckingson won't win anything even if he's in charge of manshitter United now cos he can't buy refs anymore.
rezdlmtuy
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Bringing back Alex Ferguson will not solve United situations, because these abysmal performance started from him Ferguson when he fail to qualify the team from uefa champions league group stage and he was beaten back to back by Atlectico Bilbao in Europa league and he retired humbly that year.
jezabdnpyz
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man u should bring back fergusson if anyone can take them back to the glory days it's him
Bruz.., The Big Boss Just Had A Brain Surgery Not Too Long Ago. We Are Not Going To Risk His Health Just Because We Want Clueless ⭕le ⭕ut.
kakahlbbrown
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When you think bringing back the old man at old Trafford is the solution kkkkkkk Old things at work
Cesmnpstz
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no, there's too much elite coaches here, even if Ferguson is back, he won't beat pep and tuchel to epl title of fa cup, just accept that teams are way powerful than what they used to be.
that's true but at least they wouldn't be as bad as with ole
DevonCarter
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man u should bring back fergusson if anyone can take them back to the glory days it's him
no, there's too much elite coaches here, even if Ferguson is back, he won't beat pep and tuchel to epl title of fa cup, just accept that teams are way powerful than what they used to be.
Cesmnpstz
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man u should bring back fergusson if anyone can take them back to the glory days it's him