CNN reports on the celebration of Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United.The Scot is the most successful manager in British football, and his status as the longest-serving one in United's history was cemented when the English Premier League champions renamed the biggest stand at Old Trafford in his honor.
It is the first time in the ground's 101 years that a section has been named after an individual. Club officials have also commissioned an award-winning Scottish sculptor, Philip Jackson, to build a statue of the 69-year-old to be erected outside the stand's entrance next year.
"I was really emotional. I couldn't believe it. I didn't expect that. I have to thank the club, it's fantastic of them to do that," Ferguson told reporters after the nervy 1-0 victory over Sunderland.
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