Six best quotes from Sir Alex Ferguson on UTD Podcast

On signing Eric Cantona
“I’d agreed to have a lunch with Bob Cass from the Mail on Sunday at the Portland Hotel. I said “I need to go, I’m sorry, but I may be back.” I went away, signed him, came back. We were playing on Saturday. He said: “Where were you?”. “Just away to sign Cantona.” ”Don’t be daft.” I said: “Honestly.” “You better have, I wouldn’t have let you leave here.”

On whether he misses management
“No. I took Cathy to the European final the next year when Real [Madrid] played Atletico in Lisbon and that was the first time I said to myself, ‘god I miss this, I miss this’. I went down to see Ronaldo after the game. Carlo Ancelotti was the manager – he’s a fantastic guy – and he saw me in the corridor of the suite, and he said, ‘Cristiano’s gone for a medical, to get tested’, and he said, ‘come in, come in’ and all the players were shaking my hand. It was a really nice moment, you know. That’s probably the only time where I said to myself, ‘I miss this’, you know, a big game like that.”