Super League kills dreams, says Fergie

sIR Alex Ferguson has explained his opposition to the proposals for a european super league, saying ‘every team should have its dream’ to succeed at the highest level. the ditched plans would have created a closed shop at the top of european football, with only five ‘outsiders’ able to qualify for the breakaway competition alongside 15 permanent members. sir Alex’s former club Manchester United were among the leading players in the proposals, but he cited his Aberdeen team’s triumph in the 1983 european Cup Winners’ Cup final as a good reason for opposing them. ‘As a player, I played in european football for Rangers and Dunfermline. And then as a manager I took a provincial club, Aberdeen, and beat Real Madrid in the final in Gothenburg,’ he told bbC sport. ‘that is a provincial club fulfilling its dream. every club should have that dream to achieve what Aberdeen did. ‘You cannot ever forget that the real reason for football was that the smallest guy can climb to the top of everest, and that’s the best way I can put that. We can’t do without that really.’ the 79-year-old scot and his son Jason are releasing a film about the legendary manager’s career this month, three years on from a brain haemorrhage that left him fighting for his life.