It is difficult to judge which produced the bigger laugh in "Sir Alex Ferguson — My Autobiography," launched this week in a manner that makes Hollywood premieres seem like a quiet evening in.

There was Ferguson's assertion that Rafa Benitez is a "control freak," the same Ferguson who has constantly repeated the necessity to control the dressing room — "Before I came to United, I told myself I wasn't going to allow anyone to be stronger than I was. Your personality has to be bigger than theirs. That is vital."

Or when the former Manchester United manager said that in 2009 Nemanja Vidic told him he wanted to go to fight for Serbia in Kosovo. Problem is, it was 10 years after the war in the Balkans had ended, which is taking Fergie time to the extreme.