Alex Ferguson's son Jason has spoken of the distressing call to 999 he had to make after finding his father had collapsed from a brain haemorrhage.
Jason Ferguson is the director of the new 'Never Give In' documentary about the former Manchester United manager's life and spoke to the Press Association about the incident in 2018.
Alex Ferguson - Never Give In
'Oh totally, absolutely [it felt like things may not end well]. We went up to Macclesfield hospital and that was when it was identified he had had a brain haemorrhage," Ferguson Jr said.
'I remember stepping outside the room and saying to the doctor, "How bad is this?" and she looked at me almost as if I was like an idiot and was like, "It's bad, this is a pretty serious situation."
'The two guys looking at the scan couldn't understand relating the image they were looking at on the screen of this massive bleed and the fact behind the curtain he was sitting up talking to a nurse. They couldn't understand he was sitting up talking.
'He obviously remembers none of this. But, yeah, going up to Salford, getting pulled by the doctors, getting told, "Get yourself ready here", you know. It was not easy.'
Mortality
Jason said that the incident
'It brings mortality to the table. Invulnerable – sometimes you view him in that way. That, as I say, brought the fact he isn't to the table.
'I've asked myself recently, "Has this been some sort of therapy in a way?" – because it was pretty traumatic, the day. I'm not sure. In a way, it's probably allowed me to detach myself from it, so it really stripped the emotion out of it in a way.
'But when I first heard the 999 call - that threw me a bit. My core objective was to make a film that wasn't about football. It was to make a film that captured the man, not the public perception of who he is.
'I felt our relationship and my closeness would allow him to be comfortable coming out as the man he is, which he did.'
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