In the days after Sir Alex Ferguson suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2018, his son, Jason, remembered his father holding his head in his hands and voicing one of his deepest fears. 'I hope there's nothing wrong with my memory,' Sir Alex said, as he tried to come to terms with what had befallen him. 'There better be nothing wrong with my memory.'
In the brilliant, moving documentary about Ferguson's life, Never Give In, which was released earlier this year, the former Manchester United manager is seen poring over a piece of paper which looks like the title page to a book of crosswords.