When Sir Alex Ferguson appeared on Who wants to be a Millionaire?

“Well, I was on it with Eamonn Holmes in 2004 and we phoned Brian McClair – but he was useless!” recalled Sir Alex, with typical candour. “We had to give the name of the rooster in The Good Life. Now, I’d never seen it, so I had no idea, but the options were Stalin, Trotsky, Lenin and Rasputin.

“We were going for £64,000, so we asked the audience and there was no decisive answer. Then I phoned Brian but he had no idea either, which surprised me because, in fairness, he’s a bright lad. So we used our 50-50 and it was either Trotsky or Lenin.