Alex Ferguson or Morrissey book quiz: whose line is it anyway?

Two Manchester moaners released autobiographies this week, but can you identify the author of these excerpts?
  
  


  1. "You should never surrender what you’re good at. There is no doubt there had been a direct attack on me."

    1. Sir Alex Ferguson

    2. Morrissey

  2. "Arbitrarily illiterate, football players remained in the stuckness of their own social units until George Best spoke and teased and joked and made sense. Best was clever and witty, and he had found a variety of ways to make his life glamorous.”

    1. Sir Alex Ferguson

    2. Morrissey

  3. "My indignation endures to this day."

    1. Sir Alex Ferguson

    2. Morrissey

  4. “'David, you’re not actually going to eat that stuff, are you?’ Rumbled, he snaps: ‘Oh, you must be HELL to live with.’ ‘Yes, I am,” I say proudly.”

    1. Sir Alex Ferguson

    2. Morrissey

  5. “The north is important partly because of London’s distance, and also because of the disregard London pays to the north.”

    1. Sir Alex Ferguson

    2. Morrissey

  6. "Fame offers no immunity from the emotional comedown. The second half is not as exciting, so how do you recreate it?"

    1. Sir Alex Ferguson

    2. Morrissey

  7. "He looked at me as if I had horns on my head. One of them was playing his cards close to his chest and, to this day, I have no idea which one it was."

    1. Sir Alex Ferguson

    2. Morrissey

  8. “I stumble into my first television interview, which is for breakfast TV. At 7am I sit quietly in the Green Room with George Best. It is too early in the day to smile, so we both avoid each others’ tired eyes.”

    1. Sir Alex Ferguson

    2. Morrissey

  9. "He always reminded us of the cartoon character with the big freckles, big ears and buck teeth on the front page of the comic, Mad."

    1. Sir Alex Ferguson

    2. Morrissey

  10. “The industrial city has a teeming imagination, and Manchester was rife with what were known as tramps. Of these, too, most small children were frightened.”

    1. Sir Alex Ferguson

    2. Morrissey

Solutions

1:A, 2:B, 3:A, 4:B, 5:B, 6:A, 7:A, 8:B, 9:A, 10:B

Scores

  1. 0 and above.

    You know it's over

  2. 1 and above.

    Heaven knows you're miserable now

  3. 2 and above.

    Did you start something you couldn't finish?

  4. 3 and above.

    Looks like you have a thorn in your side

  5. 4 and above.

    Looks like you have a thorn in your side

  6. 5 and above.

    You went nowhere fast

  7. 6 and above.

    You went nowhere fast

  8. 7 and above.

    You charming man (or woman)

  9. 8 and above.

    You charming man (or woman)

  10. 9 and above.

    Stop. Have you heard these before?

  11. 10 and above.

    You have a light that will never go out

 

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