Very resilient with a never-say-die attitude.
As long as the game is still going, you’ve got a chance. That is exactly how he wanted us to be and exactly how his team carried out those instructions.
In my first season – 1997/98, the year before, we were going very well up until we lost the real backbone of our team. I think we had Schmeichel, Pallister, Keaney and Giggsy all out in the same few weeks. We lost in the Champions League quarter-final and Arsenal came to Old Trafford and beat us when we had a depleted squad.