Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson poses with his new autobiography before a book signing at a supermarket in Manchester, northern England October 24, 2013. REUTERS/Phil Noble
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson says he owes his success to being beaten with a belt by his favourite school-teacher when he stepped out of line as a schoolboy.
Ferguson, 72, the most successful manager in British soccer history, says he now has the belt in his study at home after it was bequeathed to him by the formidable disciplinarian Elizabeth Thomson before she died.
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