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“I’M NOT SURE NIGHTS OUT AT THE HAÇIENDA WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCEPTABLE – FERGIE HAD IT BOXED OFF!”

You left Celtic to join Manchester United in 1987. Was that a difficult decision?

Not really. Alex Ferguson romanced me more than anyone else. When I signed, the big thing was that George Best had been the last United player to score 20 league goals in a season. It was one of the first things I got asked about, but I didn’t understand all the fuss. You need a team to win something. I scored 24 league goals in my first season, and we still didn’t win anything! We hadn’t won the title since 1967, and the best thing about finally doing it in ’93 was that

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