Wrong. Fergie famously never took training . He delegated it to his assistants e.g. Brian Kidd / Carlos Queiroz / Steve McClaren etc. He watched from afar and kept his distance from the players. He also never went in the players area in the training ground - that was their domain.
Rio Ferdinand has revealed that Sir Alex Ferguson never took training sessions and spent more time speaking to his bookie than anyone else. "Every now and again before a session he'd gather us in, maybe ahead of a big game at the weekend or after a result and say, 'listen guys that game is out of your system now, I want a hard session'.
But when quizzed on whether Ferguson would ever make comments during training the centre-half admitted he was busy discussing which race horse he was going to back. He added: "He's speaking to his bookie about which horse he's backing. That's the person he has most conversation with.