Mark McGhee is in good heart despite the pressures on football management.

His old boss Sir Alex Ferguson underwent treatment for a minor heart irregularity on Thursday.

It followed Steve Coppell, McGhee's predecessor as Albion manager, who revealed he had a similar problem.

But McGhee, who played in Fergie's European Cup Winners' Cup-winning Aberdeen side, believes he is coping with his job through a healthy and balanced lifestyle.

He said: "It is the pressure we managers put on ourselves as well as the pressure from outside that we have to be careful about. But nowadays there's a new breed of manager who is much more aware of health and fitness.

"The League Managers' Association have taken a hand in that they make sure that managers are profiled, checked and monitored as to their general health.

"I think we've been well looked after. That shows in the fact that Fergie's had this problem, it was found and it has been dealt with."

McGhee, 46, is careful with his fitness and diet and ensures his life is not all about football.

He said: "I went to see the show Chicago in London the other night. It was excellent and I had a good night. You have to have other interests.

"I've got to do those sort of things. Fergie's does those sort of things as well. He's got his horse racing to take the pressure off himself."

But McGhee believes football bosses are not the only people who need to take precautions in the workplace.

He said: "A lot of modern jobs have people who work with stress and pressure. I don't think football management is that different."

McGhee is far from shocked that Fergie has had a heart trouble.

He said: "I'm never surprised about anything like this for anyone because it happens. He's someone who works tremendously hard and has done for years and years and years.

"He puts in as much as anyone would put in in any job and therefore he's going to be suspectible or liable to those sort of stresses and strain."

Managers who have had heart problems in recent years include Gerard Houllier, Graeme Souness, Barry Fry and Joe Kinnear, while Glenn Roeder suffered a stroke.

Coppell revealed his heart problem to The Argus earlier this year before moving to Reading.