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have a go at you in the car, when you thought you’d played well. It’s normal, it’s just the way he is – but it was difficult, it was very difficult.

“The main thing about it is, I wasn’t good enough to stay at United – that’s a fact.

“When they bought Roy Keane and had Paul Ince, I was never going to play enough.

“And the bottom line was, the way United was going, I was never going to compete with that and it’s just the reality of it.”

Ferguson is now in his third spell as boss of Peterborough, having first taken the helm in 2007 but with spells managing Preston and Doncaster before returning to London Road.

And the shadow of his father’s stellar reputation was hanging over him as he took on his first role as a manager.

Ferguson said: “I don’t think it affected me because the hardest thing to do would be to go into management.

“But I made that decision early in my playing career, at 28 I started taking my badges.

“I thought I might have a chance of the Wrexham job

ROY KEANE’S feud with Sir Alex Ferguson took another twist last year when he hinted at nepotism over son Darren and brother Martin having been at Manchester United.

Keane said: “Darren played for the club and won a league medal, very lucky. His brother was chief scout for a long time.

“I’m surprised his wife wasn’t involved in the staff somewhere.

“Darren was [boss] at Preston and lost his job. He’d a couple of young players on loan from United. What happens the next day? They’re pulled out of Preston.” when it came up but a week later I had the Peterborough job, so it’s worked out well. But I did feel I had to get right my first job, given my name. Fortunately it went very well.”

Now Ferguson has his sights on a top job in English football.

He said: “I’d just love to work as high as I could. If it’s a dream job you would say Man United, of course you would. You want to get a job in the Premiership but it’s becoming more difficult for British managers.”

And Ferguson would not rule out a move to his native Scotland. He added: “There are a lot of big clubs in Scotland. You can name five straight off – Rangers, Celtic, Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen. So yeah, you’d have to consider it.”