Outgoing Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is set to start on a new book.

The Daily Mail says Ferguson's retirement will mean work starting soon on his second autobiography, which he verbally agreed to write three years ago for an expected advance of around £2million from publishers Hodder & Stoughton.

Fergie's first authorised life story came out in the treble year of 1999. But there is plenty enough material on and off the pitch for a second volume of memoirs concentrating on the last 14 years.