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Ferguson: I turned down chance to manage Team GB

Published 22:23 22/10/11 By Derick Allsop

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Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed he turned down an offer to manage the Great Britain Olympics football team because he has no intention of quitting Manchester United any time soon.
The United boss was London 2012 supremo Seb Coe’s first choice for the role that has now gone to Stuart Pearce.
Coe talked to Ferguson, but the final of the tournament will be played just a week before the start of the next football season and the Scot insists he will have his hands full at Old Trafford.
Ferguson said: “I told Seb that if I wasn’t managing at the time I might consider it. But I am managing. I’m busy here at Manchester United.”

That suggests Ferguson, two months away from his 70th birthday and in charge of United for almost 25 years, plans to stay at least until the summer of 2013.

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