For the first time since Sir Alex Ferguson ran the show, security guards at Manchester United's Carrington training ground can expect to wave their manager through the gates whilst most people are still eating their breakfast.
Fergie was famed for his dawn starts, getting all his phone calls and paperwork done before the players turned up for training, and United's new boss Erik ten Hag has also built his career on the basis that the early bird catches the worm.
Ten Hag was 42 when he got his first taste of management at the small Dutch club Go Ahead Eagles.