Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  I a Sir Alex Ferguson e whakaahua ana i a Dave Mackay hei "te tangata maia rawa o te ao" he nui ki te whakawai i nga kanohi. Ehara i te mea ko nga roimata anake, engari ko nga whakamaharatanga o te whakamaharatanga i whakahuatia e taua rerenga i roto i nga kaitakaro whutupaoro tawhito ataahua i huihui ki Edinburgh ki te tuku i o raatau whakaute whakamutunga ki tetahi korero o te keemu Ingarihi i te wa i tino toa ai. Ko te Ferguson tētahi o ngā mea tino nui o ngā whakamaharatanga whaiaro i te tangihanga o Mackay. I whakawhiwhia e Sir Alex Ferguson he mihi whakahirahira ki a Dave Mackay, te kaitiaki o mua o Tottenham i tana tangihanga i te Rātū. I tae atu a Ferguson ki Hearts'Tynecastle i te ahiahi o mua i mua i te arahi i nga mihi. I noho a Ferguson i roto i te kamupene rongonui, me te tangata o mua o Manchester United a Denis Law (kua hoki mai ano). I rārangi ngā kaiwhaiwhai ki ngā huarahi o Edinburgh ki te tuku i te kaitakawaenga o mua ki te tuku i a ia e tika ana. Ko Pat Jennings (pokapū) te māngai o Tottenham Hotspur i te Mansfield Traquair Centre. Ko te waka e mau ana i te kopare a Mackay i whakakiia ki ngā putiputi me te pōro hei tohu i tana matenga. Ka wehe atu te tira i te taiwhanga o Hearts i te mea kua whai wāhi te pa ki te tuku i ā rātau mihi whakamutunga. Ko te raupapa o te ratonga mo te tangihanga o Mackay. Ko te Ferguson tētahi o ngā mea tino nui o ngā whakamaharatanga whaiaro i te tangihanga o Mackay. 'I tākaro au mō ngā tūru o Queen's Park i Tynecastle, ā, i tākaro hoki te Mackay nui mō ngā tūru o Hearts nā te mea i hoki mai ia i te waewae whati,' i kī a Fergie, ehara i te puawai maroke o Scotland i roto i ngā wero tinana. 'I whakaekea ahau e ia, a ka whakaaro ahau "Christ". Engari i aua rā me whakatika koe. Na ka whakatika ahau, a ka titiro ki taua pouaka peere nui o tona. Ka mea noa ia "Kei te pai koe, e tama?" Ko te wā anake i tākaro au ki a Dave Mackay. E kore au e wareware ki taua mea. Kāore he tangata i Heart of Midlothian, nā Mackay i ārahi ki ngā tohu nui e toru o te motu, e wareware ki a ia. E hia rau o ngā kaiwhaiwhai o Hearts i tū i te ara o tana haerenga whakamutunga mai i te whenua tawhito, i te taha o ngā kaitākaro me ngā kaimahi i whakahokia mai ai te karapu ki...
I tū te tangihanga o Dave Mackay ki Edinburgh i te Rātū. Ko te kaitakawaenga o mua o Tottenham me Hearts i mate i te timatanga o tenei marama i te 80 o ona tau. I kī a Ferguson he 'inoi' a Mackay, he 'tino whakaiti' I patai ano te rangatira o mua o Manchester United he aha i taea ai e Mackay te whiwhi 22 noa iho mo Scotland.