I am actually getting sick of this rhetoric.
You know that there is context applied here. You cannot tell me as a teenager that I could not have possibly had Ferguson as a hero. You don't know me or anybody else that are saying things like 'There was nobody else'.
As a kid you latch onto something. Sometimes it is for stats reasons, i.e. Lukaku will be a 'hero' for kids at the time, but is much derided by some people who 'study' all round play. Ferguson was a bit of an enigma, on his day he was one of the most unplayable footballers about. He was my hero and I still have fond memories of him being my hero, I think as a kid there are levels to hero worship. Rideout is somebody who I have very fond memories, mainly because of that goal. Kanchelskis was a very brief, but raging, fire and if he stayed longer then hero worship would have definitely been the case. On a side note, my parents hated that I wanted Kanchelskis on the back of my shirt and the next year Ferguson, as it was pay by letter back then. I still personally see Parkinson as a beacon of light in that era and if it wasn't for the injury he could have become a proper legend at Everton.
Ferguson had his flaws, and some of them very big flaws. His career is an opportunity missed, if there was a more stable personality behind the player we could have seen records broken.
