Sammy McIlroy tells two rather traumatic stories about going out to get fish and chips.
The first ended with the late Brian Greenhoff, his friend and team-mate, having a gun pulled on him in a Sydney chippy while they were on tour in 1975 after helping Manchester United win promotion back to the top flight.
‘The hotel reception recommended it and I said to Brian, “You go”,’ recalled McIlroy. ‘He ran back to the room white as a ghost.’
Greenhoff escaped injury that night but McIlroy was not so lucky when he drove his pregnant wife-to-be Cynthia to pick up a supper in Stretford two years earlier.