Fergie has done his bit and left the Manchester United-leaning players purring like Her Majesty in a phone conversation with our Prime Minister on referendum night.
Maybe now Paul McGinley should start thinking about how Liverpool Football Club can help Team Europe’s cause at Gleneagles this week.
You got the impression that Real Madrid diehard Sergio Garcia could take or leave an audience with Sir Alex.
But if you told him a few hundred Anfield fans were being transported from the Kop to the first tee of the PGA Centenary course for the weekend, that would surely hold the Spaniard’s attention.
Failing that, maybe Gerry Marsden would do.
One of the abiding memories for Garcia of the last Ryder Cup in Chicago is of the stirring welcome he and his team-mates received as they arrived on the first tee for the final day singles ties.
And Gleneagles with its players’ tunnel decorated with images of golfing legends and the biggest stand ever erected at a Ryder Cup opening tee is unlikely to disappoint.
If he’s still here on Friday, just don’t expect Ferguson to be singing Garcia’s song of choice.
“The first hole is always amazing,” the world No 3 said. “It’s definitely the most impressive first hole we play throughout our careers.
“That tee shot on the first is always different, the way they build it up and all the songs you hear and everything. I’ve always been surprised by everything that happens there, and the cheers that you get.
“But to me, two years ago at Medinah, to be on American soil when we were losing 10-6 on the Sunday morning and to hear every single fan sing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
“It gives me such a special feeling. I wanted to put my boots on and start playing football!”
On Ferguson’s words of wisdom in the European team room on Tuesday, Garcia reflected: “I thought it was very interesting to hear him talk.
“Obviously, yeah, I’m a Real Madrid supporter and probably not his biggest fan in the world.
“But when you have the possibility of listening to somebody who has been up there in sport or not even in sport and he’s been able to perform at a high level for so long, it’s always interesting to pick his brains.
“Hard-work, confidence, belief they were some of the things he mentioned. It doesn’t matter if you’re two down with three to go, or five down with eight to go. Even if you lose, make it as tight as possible.”
There was a time when Garcia was the high energy on and off course personality that Ian Poulter has become.
But don’t mistake a mellowing and maturing in the Open runner-up for a dip in his passion and desire for the Ryder Cup.
“It’s not a competition,” he said. “At the end of the day, the most important thing is that we are all here together and fighting for each other. We all know what we bring to the team.
“Everybody has their own way of doing it and we love the way Poults does it.
“It’s nice to have as many leaders as possible on the team, and I think Poults is definitely one of them.
“We all have the same drive to do well, and to win. We get to play a lot with the Americans these days and we have closer relationships but once you step on to the first tee you still want to beat them as hard as you can. ”
This will be Garcia’s seventh Ryder Cup as a player (he was a vice-captain for Colin Montgomerie at Celtic Manor).
Of the eight captains he has now played under, or assisted, McGinley has the greatest riches to choose from when it comes to settling on Friday and Saturday pairings, according to Garcia.
“I can see so many in this team,” he said.“Everybody could play with everybody. It’s not like sometimes when you get on teams and think, ‘these are definitely going to be the pairings’.
“I could see myself playing with everybody on the team, no problem. It doesn’t matter if it’s a rookie or a veteran. I see a lot of depth in this team.”
The captains change for Europe every two years, but it always appears to be a seamless transition from one to another.
It’s probably no coincidence that the one man who tried to rip it up and start again was Sir Nick Faldo, and we all know how that ended.
In McGinley, Garcia sees a continuation of the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” guiding principle that has served their continent so well.
He said: “Obviously he (McGinley) knows that we have had a winning formula in the last nine Ryder Cups so he doesn’t want to change that.
“He just wants to try and take it one step forward and make it a little bit better.”