DAIRE (August 2025 issue)
“[On his favourite United memory] The 2008 Champions League final. Tears running down my face thinking we were losing the final until John Terry slipped and stuck his penalty wide. Then it was all down to Van der Sar on the final penalty and winning the holy grail. A strong second was Rashford’s goal against PSG in the Champions League for us to knock them out in 2019. I remember I was working a night shift at Tesco and going crazy all over the place.”
IAN BROWN (September 2005 issue)
“I once had a scooter and there was a sports car in front of me, and it started reversing, so I had to start pushing myself back. And he’s reversing, reversing, and my back light hit the car behind me. I jumped up, ran to the driver’s window and it was Lou Macari. ‘He’s broke me ******* light.’ And he pulled out a wedge like that [mimics having a huge pile of cash in his hands], I’m not kidding, and he went: ‘How much is it?’ And I said it was about 12 quid. He just peeled off four tenners, 40 quid, just like that. I was like: ‘Cool. Have you got any tickets for Saturday?’ No, he hadn’t, but I just thought he was cool peeling off a wedge like that. I was buzzing ‘cos we always loved Lou Macari.
“My first ever game was in 1971, Southampton, we beat them 5-1. Willie Morgan scored one and Alan Gowling, who was the centre-forward, scored four. I went with my dad, it was amazing, the size of the crowd, the vibe and all that. You love that, with the crowd, when you’re a young kid, don’t you?”
